Conflict Poetry Flashcards
(20 cards)
POWER OF NATURE
- Storm on the Island
- The Prelude
- Kamikaze
- Tissue
- Exposure
- Ozymandias
POWER OF HUMANS
- Ozymandias
- Checking out me history
- My Last Duchess
- Storm on the Island
- Tissue
- London
IDENTITY
- Poppies
- Storm on the Island
- Light Brigade
- Tissue
- Kamikaze
- The Emigree
EFFECTS OF CONFLICT
- Bayonet Charge
- Exposure
- Remains
- Light Brigade
- Poppies
- War Photographer
- Kamikaze
Two cast and…
…trunkless legs of stone
OZYMANDIAS
•metaphor for empire >damaged and crumbling •’stone’ >hard material >lack of emotion
Half sunk…
…a shattered visage lies
OZYMANDIAS
•nature consuming it
•face doesn’t matter
>no identity
•broken leader
Sneer of…
…cold command
OZYMANDIAS
•looks down on people
>arrogance
•alliteration
>cold hearted
King of…
…kings
OZYMANDIAS
- sense of power
- mocks religion
- thinks he deserves to be god
Decay of the colossal wreck,…
…boundless and bare
OZYMANDIAS
•power ‘decayed’
•statue destroyed but impressive
•alliteration
>emphasises the above
The lone and…
…level sands stretch
OZYMANDIAS
- power=lonely
- vast space around fallen statue
STRUCTURE OF OZYMANDIAS
•iambic pentameter is broken
>refusal to conform
>human power disrupted
•first person narrative
•sonnet (14) lines
>first 8 lines: statue described in parts
>last 2 lines: huge, immortal desert vs insignificant human power
BEHIND OZYMANDIAS
•statue is an allegory
>eventual end of power that everyone must suffer
•power is lost
>like the statue
>represents time
•tyranny of ruler implied through aggressive/negative language
Chartered…
…streets
LONDON
- human ownership
- even Thames owned by rich
- mapped out for profit
Marks of weakness…
…marks of woe
LONDON
•’marks’ >distinguished •’woe’ >sadness >melancholy >sadness seeps from speaker’s voice
In every/…
…in every/in every
LONDON
•anaphora
The mind-forged…
…manacles I hear’
LONDON
- restriction of freedom
- chained by those in power
Black’ning…
…church appalls
LONDON
•dirty
•evil
•religion
>bad
Runs in blood…
…down palace walls
LONDON
•juxtaposition •guilty of letting people die >blood outside >loss of identity >they don’t care
And blights with plagues…
…the marriage hearse
LONDON
•oxymoron
>mirror marriage and death
•powerful verb and noun combination
>suggests disease and infection
STRUCTURE OF LONDON
•ABAB rhyme scheme and repetition >suffering is relentless and repetitive •dramatic monologue •first person narrator •stanza 1 and 2: suffering of people •stanza 3: corruptive intuitions •stanza 4: returns to people
