Ozymandias quotes an dlinks Flashcards

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‘Antique Land’

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Antique adjective = old,could = LEGENDARY, could = fragile, decrepid, outdated

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‘Vast and Trunkless’

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Oxymoronic phrase
Trunkless = end of power at the roots
Conveys extent of power loss in current time period

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‘Stone // stand’

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Enjambed alliteration highlights emptiness of land, largeness that it once was now empty
Extent of fall

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‘…Near them’

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EMPTINESS, EMPTINESS

elipses creates pause to illuminate EMPTINESS

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‘Shattered visage’

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Onomatopoeic highlughts shattered empire, completely ruined

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‘Cold command’

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Harsh alliteration emphasizes tyranny

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‘Ye mighty and despair’

‘Nothing besides remains’

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Irony in comparison to nothing besides remains to eilluminate hubristic qualities // power of nature to remove and forget

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‘lone and level sands’

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alliteration emphasizes extensive flat lines, endless desert

everything detroyed comletey

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Link to?

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Mametz wood

Power of nature to write histroy
Power of human / power of nature conflict

Sheers emodying Shelley’s belief that poets are legislators and wirting welsh into history

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Mametz wood quotes

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'Wasted young'
'Farmers found them'
'broken bird's egg of a skull'
'nesting machine guns'
'earth stands sentinal' 'reaching' ' into itself'
'boots that outlasted them'
'sung' ' only now' 'absent tongues'
'mid dance'
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