Poetry Flashcards
(35 cards)
Wh are the two leading themes in Ozymandias
Power of Humans
Power of Nature
What is a language technique in Ozymandias
ALLITERATION
LONE AND LEVEL
Imagery technique in Ozymandias?
IMAGE OF FAILURE
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Form in Ozymandias?
2 Points
SONNET shows his love for himself
Second hand account distancing the reader from the king
Who wrote Ozymandias?🐢
Percy Shelly
Whats Ozymandias about?
Narrator meets a traveler who talks about a statue
Statue of a king who ruled was arrogant
Statue had fallen
What can Ozymandias be compared to ?
Life represented in art- MY LAST DUCHESS
Power of nature-THE PRELUDE, EXPOSURE, STORM ON THE ISLAND
What are the leading themes in London (4)
Power of HUMANS
LOSS and ABSENCE
ANGER
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE
Form in London?
Dramatic monologue
ABAB rhyme scheme - shows nothings changing or his feet
Structure in London?
First 2 stanzas focus on people
Stanza 4 back to humans and how “new born infants tear”
Language in London?
Rhetoric language- Anaphora
“In every” represents the amount of people effected and how it needs to change
Imagery in London🏭⛪️⛪️
“Black’ning church”
Suggests thats its tarnished by its incapability of looking after people
Ugliness of industrial revolution
Who was London written by
William Blake
Two main feelings in the poem London
ANGER😡😡
HOPELESSNESS😞
Compare London to which 2 poems?
The prelude
The emigree
BOTH PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
What is London about?
A man walking around London and being surrounded by misery and poverty😰
What are the main themes in the poem the Prelude 5
POWER OF NATURE🌳 MEMORY💆🏼 FEAR😖 PRIDE INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE
Whats the Prelude about
The narrator finds a boat tied to a tree, goes on the lake
Initially happy
Then afraid of ‘huge peak, black and huge’🍆
Turns around goes home, view on nature🌳 changes
Form in the Prelude?
First person narrative
Describes turning point in poets life
Structure in the Prelude?
3 MAIN SECTIONS
1st - TONE = LIGHT CAREFREE🙂
DISTINCT CHANGE AFTER MOUNTAIN APPEAR
Final section = reflects on his experience and how it changed him
Beautiful Imagery
Fearful imagery in the Prelude?
Beautiful- “sparkling light” “ elfin pinnace”
-connotations of fantasy elegance and light imagery
Fearful- “ a huge peak, black and huge”
- contrast to the “sparkling light water”
-repetition to emphasise its scale
Language in Prelude
Personification
“UPREARED HIS HEAD”
-used to show the power of nature
Compare The Prelude to which poems?
NATURE-
Exposure
Storm on the island
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Remains
What are the leading themes in The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Power of conflict