Student revision PowerPoint for AQA Conflict poems.

1. next to of course god america i
E.E Cummings

2. Themes/key ideas
• The key ideas are:
• Patriotism is pointless
• Patriotism has become a common routine that
people forget the actual point and real
meaning to it
• They don’t think about what is being said.

3. Key quotations
• ‘And drank rapidly a glass of water’ – rush to
say the speech.
• ‘oh say can you see by the dawn’ – a part of
the american national anthem, making fun of
it, making it meaningless.

4. Language
• Refers to other nationalistic pieces of text.
• Use of cliches to emphasise lack of originality
and meaning

5. Structure
• It is in the form of a sonnet but mixes it up.
• It has no puntuation to make it a flow of
words.