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hello and welcome to our power and
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conflict revision video now I made this
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video for two reasons the first is for
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those students who've been following
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this course so far now we've gone
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through all fifteen poems and move
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disgusts contexts related to each of the
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poets in addition we've gone into lots
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of detail when it comes to understanding
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each poem and what each key lines mean
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and also techniques as well as structure
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form and so on however what I thought
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this would be useful for especially if
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you're part of that group of students is
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for you to take a step back essentially
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and to see how did all fifteen poems fit
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as an entire picture but also if we were
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to really narrow down the quotations
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that you need to remember what would
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that look like
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however the second reason why I made
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this video is for students who don't
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necessarily have the luxury of time so
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you might be on some form of time
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pressure you might have an essay to
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submit very soon or you might be having
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your exams quite soon and you need
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something that goes straight to the
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heart of the matter which essentially
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points you in the right direction in
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terms of key quotations to remember what
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to memorize and essentially gives you an
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overview of all fifteen poems now before
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we move on to the next video we're give
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you a detailed walkthrough of each exam
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question and how to answer it I think
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it'd be really useful to get an idea of
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how all the quotations look like when
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you cut it down and when you summarize
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each of the poems for your revision
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because remember these are 15 poems
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meaning if you even just remembered two
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key quotations for each poem that will
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make it thirty so you have to be quite
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economical with the poetry quotes that
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you choose and I've done that for you so
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let's get started
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and we'll begin with the first poem in
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this collection which is Ozymandias now
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in terms of Ozymandias the first thing
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to always remember is that it's written
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in a sonnet form traditionally a sonnet
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is a love poem which is fourteen lines
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in length and essentially Percy Shelley
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has used this as a way to mock the
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person who is the subject of this firm
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so Ozymandias is written about King Army
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sees the second contextually and you
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should know
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from other parts of the video and
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essentially the sonnet is written in a
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very ironic sense now in terms of the
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key quotations to remember through this
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poem the first quote to remember is
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shattered visage and this describes
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essentially the shattered and broken
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face of the statue of King Rama sees
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this man who thought he'd always be
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remembered for centuries to come
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actually nature doesn't really care for
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him it's destroyed his statue in the
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second quotation to remember his lone
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and level sands and this shows
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ironically is the little beads of sand
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the desert and nature that have
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destroyed this man who thought he was
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really powerful and indestructible let's
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move on to the second poem of this
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collection which is London and in terms
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of structure it's an ABAP structure and
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the first notations remember is
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chartered Street and the term chartered
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this adjective is really powerful
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because it shows the unnatural act of
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trying to control something that
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shouldn't be controlled streets and of
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course also the chartered temps the
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chartered River they shouldn't be
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controlled however it's showing just how
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controlling the monarchy and the
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government is and the second quotation
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which ends the poem is marriage hearse
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which is an oxymoron again this shows
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how new life that even the start of new
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life in London in william blake's london
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is destroyed immediately and there's not
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very much hope in such a corrupt city
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now the next poem in this collection is
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the prelude and in terms of the
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structure or the form is written is
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written in three verse
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free verse just means that the poem
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doesn't necessarily follow a very set
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rhyme scheme it's written with a more
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free-flowing way now in terms of
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quotations from Prelude the first is
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troubled pleasure which is an oxymoron
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it shows that the person who stood in
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this boat and he's gone out to the water
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in he knows that it's not supposed to be
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doing this it's a forbidden act and the
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second quotation is up read its head the
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mountain is being personified as a
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really scary monster and the third
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quotation which ends the poem is trouble
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to my dreams this shows that the poet
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has essentially crossed over to
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understand in terms of nature just how
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scary and how powerful nature is but and
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this has been something that's a
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revelation that has really really thrown
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him aback and he's really really
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troubled he gets my
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is about this the next poem of this
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collection is my last Duchess and in
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terms of the way it's written it's a
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dramatic monologue now in terms of
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quotation the first one of course use to
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make it easier for you he refers to his
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Duchess as my last Duchess the second
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quotation is dies along her throat of
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course this shows that this gives us
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hints that essentially this man who sees
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her as his possession equals of my last
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Duchess he also shows how he perhaps has
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killed his Duchess as a way of control
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in her and the final quotation is smiles
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stopped and it shows of course that the
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Duke was so jealous of the Duchess and
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he was so when willing to exercise power
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and control over her that he ultimately
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had her killed
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now the next poem in this collection is
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charge of the Light Brigade and in terms
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of the way it's written is written into
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six stanzas
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now the first quotations remember which
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is repeated is half the league and this
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describes the British troops and the
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size of the British troops and how of
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course they were going to be outnumbered
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the second quotation is they wrote into
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the valley of death this is a biblical
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reference to Psalms and essentially it
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shows just how again is conveying these
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men even if they lost this battle they
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were still triumphant in our memory and
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in history and also they were triumphant
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because or just so brief and the third
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quotation is shot and shell and this
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sibilance is used to show just how
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brutal this killing was of this Light
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Brigade
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now the next poem in this collection is
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exposure in terms of rhyme scheme it is
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a vb8
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sea rhyme scheme and in terms of
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quotations remember from exposure the
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first is but nothing happens which is
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repeated continuously do you remember
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that of course this conveys a soldier's
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disappearance during the First World War
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and they're showing actually a lot of
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the war was comprised with a lot of
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waiting and waiting in the cold which is
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what killed a lot of these soldiers it
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was nature that killed him a lot of
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these soldiers
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the thing of course which ties in to
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nature and the power of nature and the
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harshness of nature is Dawne massing her
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melancholy army which shows that nature
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is essentially attacking these soldiers
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nature is the enemy
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Lynette's poem is strong on the island
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and it is written in free verse now in
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terms of quotations the first is wiser
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to earth now this is describing how the
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people who are preparing for this storm
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then digging into the wizened earth
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which gives us the idea that this earth
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is very very it's been there for a long
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time is probably going to be there and
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outlast these people after they die
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however it's also interesting because it
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contrasts so this very kindly
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description of the earth which is wise
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contrast how it pummels them so this is
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the see that pummels them so one thing
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that this poem wants to show is that we
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can't underestimate the power of nature
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now the final quotations remember is
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exploding comfortably this is an
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oxymoron it describes the sea which
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seemingly doesn't seem to be very
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threatening but actually it has the
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power innate within it to destroy the
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entire island now the next poem in the
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collection is Bayon a charge and it's
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written in three verse now in terms of
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quotations to remember the first is
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patriotic tear like molten iron this
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describes how this soldier as his
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running into this charge he's really
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fair for however he has a tear where
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he's remembering why he's doing this
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and this simile brother is really really
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powerful because essentially what this
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is showing is how he's really propelled
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and impelled by this wish to serve his
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country
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however this wish gets further and
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further and further away as his share
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survival and even his share mortality
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stares them in the face and this is
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brought us full circle in the final
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stanza when these three enlisted versus
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the rule of three King honor human
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dignity this rule of three is used in
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order to show how these ideas that led
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all of these men into the war actually
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become luxuries they become these
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general ideas in the face of their death
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and they automatically forget about it
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when four
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with death now the next poem in the
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collection to be aware of is of course
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remains and this is written in free bus
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now in terms of quotations the first is
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probably armed possibly not of courses
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to show that the man that's going to be
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killed was actually an innocent civilian
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the second quotation of course we know
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that the person the narrative speaking
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is really haunted by this act that he
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engaged in with other men he killed an
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unarmed civilians who's really haunted
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by this and he remembers us because he
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says his bloody life and my bloody hands
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and the repetition of the word bloody
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essentially emphasizes just how guilty
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and how haunted their soldier builds
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after what he's done now the next poem
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is poppies and it's written in free
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verse and in terms of quotations to
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remember from poppies the first is
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flattened rolled turned into felt to
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describe the woman and how she feels and
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also the next rotation is released a
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song bird from its cage it describes how
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the woman the mother of the soldier she
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almost feels like she has let her son go
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almost like the way you can have a bird
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which she loves so much but you have to
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release it from its cage and we get the
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sense that maybe her son has died in
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battle and the final quotation is war
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memorial of course this is reminding us
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of armistice Sunday is reminding us of
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the sacrifice of a lot of soldiers in
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World War one but also more generally
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the sacrifice that a lot of soldiers
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make in order that our countries can
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enjoy freedom now the next poem is war
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photographer and in terms of how it's
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written
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it's a sestet in other words it's
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written in six line stanzas now in terms
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of quotations the first is sports
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of suffering so Carol Ann Duffy uses a
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lot of metaphors related to photography
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and of course in terms of sports this is
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the water that the photograph when it's
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developed this is a very old-school
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method of developing photographs they're
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put in water however what is being
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developed by this particular war
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photographer are images of people who
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are going through a lot of suffering
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now the next quotation is to do with
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cities that have been impacted by wall
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Belfast in Northern Ireland in Beirut in
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and the final quotation is a hundred
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Agony's and this hyperbole is that she
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shows the suffering that a lot of people
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have to enjoy around the world and we in
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England and in places of great peace in
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the Western world don't even understand
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or can't even comprehend the extent of
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this suffering now the next poem in this
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collection is tissue and it's written in
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free verse and in terms of quotations
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the first is smooth and stroked and
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turned and this describes the Quran how
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this this religious text is so when she
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looks at the sheets of paper it's so red
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and so every user it's become very thin
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with time and age
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now the next quotation is maps - and
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this is a full sentence with a zero and
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again this shows that even if paper is
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quite flimsy it has the power to shape
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borders and to shape countries and
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ultimately identities and of course the
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final quotation is turned into skin the
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power of paper to shape all of us in
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terms of how we use money how we even
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read religious texts which shapes our
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religion but equally how ultimately this
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tape turns into our own culture it
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shapes maps it shapes the countries that
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we live in and obviously tissue the main
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message is just the power of paper which
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paradoxically is quite weak it can rip
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up people but it's still so powerful now
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the next poem in this collection is that
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every great and it's written in two
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octaves octaves means eight line stanzas
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and then the final stanza because it's
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just three stanzas the final one is nine
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lines an extra line has been added now
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the key quotations remember is there
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once was a country and there's ellipsis
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there and what this does is it shows how
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the narrator has this really
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romanticized image of her country almost
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like a fairy tale
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the next quotation is sick with tyrants
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the country is personified as being
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destroyed by its leaders and the final
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quotation is our comb it's hair now the
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narrator is still unperturbed by all of
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this horrible news that they have about
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the country they still see it in the
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mind as this beautiful woman who they
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really lovingly careful now the next
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poem is camicazi and it's written in
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free verse
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now in terms of quotation the first is
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vicious flashing silver and the
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alliteration this is what the pilot
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who's was supposedly on a suicide
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mission
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he sees them as his in the plane below
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and this makes him realize the beauty of
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nature and it makes him stop changing
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his mind as to whether he wants to go
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through with this suicide mission
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the next quotation is the turbulent in
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Russian this in many ways reflects the
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pilots own turbulent feelings as they're
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wondering whether they have a bigger
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duty to the country to engage
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successfully in this suicide mission
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which would mean death or they have a
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bigger duty to stay alive and to be with
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their family now the final poem is
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checking out my history budge on a god
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and again it's written in free verse now
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in terms of how it's written it's really
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interesting because it's written
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phonetically in other words the person
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who writes this the narrator is
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supposedly of Caribbean descent hence
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they speak using an accent or patois and
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thus it's written and to reflect that
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accent and so the first thing that's
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written quite phonetically is them tell
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me and he repeats this consistently and
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this shows his anger and how when he's
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living in England he's trying to go
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through the educational system he's only
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being told a very one-sided part of
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history rather than learning the
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entirety of history which includes not
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only English and American history but
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also history that includes Caribbean
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figures as well as African figures and
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is really angry that it doesn't
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necessarily include that now the next
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quotation is bandaged up me I and
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essentially what he means here is that
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the British educational system is
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essentially blinding him to his own
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history and it's only teaching him one
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side of history and the final quotation
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is Tucson and then of ellipsis hair and
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then Napoleon so he juxtaposes very very
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famous white historical figures like
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Napoleon Bonaparte from France
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however he juxtaposes that with also
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historic black African and Caribbean
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figures such as Toussaint L'Ouverture
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who essentially was a slave that led a
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rebellion which established the first
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black Republic in the world which was
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Haiti now of course that is it with
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regards to understanding
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the key quotations from all 15 poems I
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hope you find this useful and also don't
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forget as part of this course this will
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be available for download so don't worry
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too much if you haven't managed to write
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down all of this oh I'm going to make it
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available for download in this course so
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just make sure you download the PDF file
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thank you so much for listening
