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# [Key Biblical Allusions in the AQA Power and Conflict Poems | KS4 Teaching Resource](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/key-biblical-allusions-aqa-power-conflict-poems)

 Written by [Douglas Wise](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/author/wise) | 27 November, 2019

Click on the link above to access a brief overview of some of the key Biblical allusions in the AQA Power and Conflict poems.  I’ve listed them below.

1. **London** – ‘And blights with plagues the marriage hearse’
2. **Charge of the Light Brigade** – ‘Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred’
3. **Charge of the Light Brigade** – ‘Into the jaws of Death / Into the mouth of Hell’
4. **Exposure** – ‘For love of God seems dying’
5. **Poppies** – ‘I resisted the impulse / to run my fingers through the gelled / blackthorns of your hair’
6. **War Photographer** – ‘as though this were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass’
7. **War Photographer** – ‘All flesh is grass’
8. **Tissue** – ‘the kind you find in well-used books, the back of the Koran’

You might want to get rid of the images so everything fits onto a single page.  If this is the case, the document should be easy to edit.

You can access similar allusion overviews on *Macbeth* by clicking [here](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/classical-and-biblical-allusions-in-macbeth/) and *Jekyll and Hyde* by clicking [here](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/classical-biblical-allusions-jekyll-hyde/).

Cheers –

Doug

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