Poems Flashcards
(22 cards)
Storm on the island quote
Uses caesura, emphatic first line
“We are prepared: we build our houses squat”
Storm on the island quote
Danger imagery
“You can listen to the thing you fear/forgetting that it pummels your house too”
Storm on the island
Military metaphor
“We are bombarded by empty air”
Storm on the island quote
Juxtaposition and irony
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”
Storm on the island quote
Simile
Storm is wild and uncontrollable
Reminds reader that soemthing that seems innocent can be deadly
“Spits like a tame cat / turned savage”
What can storm on the island be compared to in terms of unpleasant and/or powerful experiences
- the prelude
- exposure
- London
- remains
- bayonet charge
Power of nature Vs power of humans
- the prelude
- exposure
- tissue
Exposure quote
Repitition
Hunts pointlessness of war
“…but nothing happens”
Exposure quote
Personification and sibilance
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
Exposure quote
Metaphor
“Slowly, our ghosts drag us home”
Comparing exposure
Effect/ reality of conflict
- war photographer
- poppies
- kamikaze
- bayonet charge
- remains
Comparing exposure
Power of nature vs power of man
- storm on the island
- the prelude
- tissue
War photographer quote
Biblical imagery and a metaphor
“All flesh is grass”
War photographer quote
Makes reader understand intensity of war
Reminds reader of innocent lives affected
“Running children in nightmare heat”
War photographer quote
Imagery/ metaphor
Hints photographer efforts to make sense of something so horrific
“Spools of suffering set our in ordered rows”
War photographer comparison
Reality of conflict:
- remains
- bayonet charge
- poppies
War photographer comparison: conflicting emotions
- kamikaze
- remains
- the emigre
Quote for last duchess
Irony
Duke is jealous
“As if she ranked / my gift”
My last duchess quote
Implies he had her killed
Caesura and shirt phrases, highlights the ruthlessness which he disposed of her life
“This grew; I gave commands”
My last duchess
- irony
- implies duke is to jealous
“As if she ranked / my gift”
My last duchess comparison
Power of memory
- war photographer
- kamikaze
- the emigree
- Remains
My last duchess
Comparison human power and the misuse of power
- ozymandias
- London
