Flashcards work because they force active recall, which is far more powerful than rereading. These Power and Conflict flashcards give you one card per poem, each boiled down to the essentials: the form, one key quote and the main themes. The point is not to read them but to test yourself against them, so use them the right way and they will do more for your memory than hours of highlighting.
How to use these flashcards
For each poem, cover everything except the title and try to say the form, one quote and the themes out loud from memory. Then uncover and check. Get one wrong and it goes back into the pile for another go. Do the whole set, then shuffle the order so you are not just remembering the sequence. Ten minutes of this a day beats an hour of passive reading. For in-copyright poems I have kept the quote to a single short line, so learn the full versions from your AQA anthology.
The 15 poem cards
Quote: "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Themes: power, pride, time.
Quote: "mind-forg'd manacles".
Themes: institutional power, oppression, suffering.
Quote: "Someone had blundered."
Themes: heroism, duty, reality of war.
Quote: "But nothing happens."
Themes: futility, power of nature, suffering.
Quote: "it is a huge nothing that we fear".
Themes: power of nature, fear, conflict.
Quote: "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera".
Themes: fear over patriotism, reality of war.
Quote: "his bloody life in my bloody hands".
Themes: guilt, trauma, aftermath.
Quote: "spools of suffering".
Themes: suffering, indifference, guilt.
Quote: "Then all smiles stopped together".
Themes: power, control, pride.
Quote: "which had been the better way to die".
Themes: duty versus the individual, memory.
Quote: "Sellotape bandaged around my hand".
Themes: grief, memory, family.
Quote: "Paper that lets the light shine through".
Themes: power, impermanence, fragility.
Quote: "branded by an impression of sunlight".
Themes: memory, identity, exile.
Quote: "Bandage up me eye with me own history".
Themes: identity, power, reclaiming.
Quote: "a huge peak, black and huge".
Themes: power of nature, the sublime, awe.
Turn recall into comparison
Once the cards are solid, do not stop at single poems. Pull two cards at random and force yourself to name one theme they share and one difference. That small game turns memory into the comparison skill the exam actually rewards. From there, use the comparison guide to lock in your pairings and the practice questions to test them under time.