Poetry Flashcards
What poem compares with ozymandias?
My last duchess
What are he quotes from ozymandias and my last duchess?
My last duchess
Iambic pentameter - in control
Enjambment - loss of control
“ I gave commands;then all smiles stopped together” = caesura
“ looking as if she were alive” = ambiguity
Ozymandias
Metaphors - criticise ruling classes
“Sneer of cold command” = personification
“A colossal wreck, boundless and bare” = caesura
What compares with he charge of the light brigade?
Exposure
What are the quotes from the charge of the light brigade and exposure?
Charge of the light brigade “Jaws of death” = metaphor “Valley of death”= metaphor “Honour the 600!” “Noble 600”
Exposure
“Merciless iced east winds that knive is” = personification
“What are we doing here?” = rhetorical question
What poem compares with kamikaze ?
The prelude
What are the quotes from kamikaze and the prelude?
Kamikaze
“Fishing boats strung out like bunting” = similie
“Green blue translucent sea” = natural imagery
“Till gradually I learned too” = enjambment
The prelude
“Through the water like a swan” = similie
“Mountain echoes” “glittering idly” = nature as pleasant
“Huge peak, black and huge” “strode after me” = nature as sinister
Free verse no rhyme scheme
Which poem compares with war photographer?
Poppies
What are the quotes for war photographer and poppies?
War photographer
“All flesh is grass” = metaphor
“Running children in a nightmare heat” = contrast
“The bath and prelunch beers” = trivialises
Poppies
“Blackthorns of your hair” = metaphor
“Like a treasure chest” = metaphor
Which poem compares with storm on the island?
The emigree
What are the quotes for storm on the island and the emigree?
Storm on the island
“Wizened earth” = personification
“Tragic chorus” = oxymoron
“Spits like a tame cat” = similie
The emigree
“Sick with tyrants” = personification
“There once was a country” = story beginning
“Time rolls its tank” = personification
What poem compares with checkin out me history?
London
What are the quotes for checkin our me history and London?
Checkin our me history
“Dem tell me” = informal language
“Bandage up me eye with me own history” = metaphor
“Wha dem wanna tell me” = informal language
London
“Cry” = repetition
“Chimney sweepers” = semantic field
“Runs in blood down palace walls” = metaphor
What poem compares with bayonet charge?
Remains
What are the quotes from bayonet charge and remains?
Bayonet charge
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air” = metaphor
“Patriotic tear” = juxtaposition
“His terrors touchy dynamite” = alliteration
Remains
“Somebody else and somebody else” = repetition
“He’s here in my head” = metaphor
“His bloody life in my bloody hands” = metaphor
What poem compares with London?
Tissue
