Poetry P&C Flashcards
(32 cards)
How does Shelley present the Power Of Humans in ‘Ozymandias’
• After Ozy “dies”, the statues is described as having ‘nothing beside remains’. Shelley portrays how power is temporary and after death it leaves, insignificance.
• ‘lifeless things’ could be an impression of statue and metaphor for his rule.
How does Shelley present the Power of Nature in ‘Ozymandias’
• ‘the decay of that colossal wreck’ - presents how human “achievements” are insignificant compared to the passing of time.
• ‘Stretch far away’, desert is vast and survives for longer than the broken statue, emphasising power of nature.
• ‘lone and level’, alliteration, presents more power than humans had: ‘boundless and bare’.
What was Percy Bysshe Shelley (in political views)?
Anti-Monarchy, connects to his poem ‘Ozymandias’
What could ‘Ozymandias’ be interpreted as?
Could be interpreted as criticism to King George III (people believing using tyrannical power makes them think their superior).
What are the Themes in Remains?
(Hint: There are 5 in total)
• Effects of Conflict
• Reality of Conflict
• Memory
• Guilt
• Individual Experience
Who is the Speaker of the Poems Remains?
A Solider
Give quotes from the poem ‘Remains’ that imply guilt and the reality/effect of conflict
• ‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
• ‘End of story, expect not really’
• ‘the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out’
How does Armitage use repetition in Remains to symbolise PTSD/Tramua?
‘Possibly armed, probably not’ - this is repeated twice, to suggest how the speaker is thinking shot back to it and symbolising his guilt
What does Simon Armitage use to create an effect of Guilt/PTSD in the poem of ‘Remains’
Graphic Imagery & Repetition
The Poem Tissue is an Extended Metaphor.
Explain how.
The Extended metaphor explores how paper connects to life (e.g. our life is recorded in books, identification cards, pictures, etc).
The poem Tissue highlights the Transience of human life through paper and what other thing?
Buildings and human structures.
That even what seem to be permanent things are fragile and temporary, e.g. if buildings were paper, we would see how ‘easily they fall away on a sigh’.
Who is the speaker in tissue?
The speaker is elusive, its focuses on humanity in general rather than a specific person.
Give two quotes about the Power of Nature in Tissue
•‘might fly our lives like paper kites’
•’easily they fall away in a sigh’
•’Shines through their borderlines’
How is paper used a symbol for Identity
‘Maps’
‘Fine slips’ (receipt)
‘Koran’
The poem uses paper as a symbol of identity, it highlights how are lives are tracked and recorded on paper and how we could be forgotten if we weren’t recorded on paper.
Explain how Ozymandias and Tissue are similar but contrast each other
Both Poems highlight how humanity is temporary compared to the passing of time, however in Ozymandias it talks about how are achievements could be forgotten after death (‘nothing beside remains’) whereas in Tissue, it highlights how paper identifies who we are, and even if we die paper will carry our legacy on (‘turned into your skin’)
Why is the poem tissue called tissue?
The homonyms of tissue create a link between paper and human flesh - presenting how both are important but fragile like tissue.
What’s the Structure of Tissue?
9 main 4-line stanzas, then one sentence/line at the end; ‘turned into your skin’, Dharker deliberately does this to focus the reader on their own identity and how it’s created.
What themes are in the Emigree?
• Loss & Absence
• Memory
• Identity
• Individual Experience
What does the word ‘Emigrée’ mean?
The word Emigée is the female version of the word emigré, which is a person who is forced to leave their country, most of the time for political reasons
What does the word ‘Emigrée’ mean?
The word Emigée is the female version of the word emigré, which is a person who is forced to leave their country, most of the time for political reasons
What is the poem the Emigrée about?
The poem the Emigrée is a poem about the memory of a country/city that the speaker (a female immigrant) is thinking back to. Rumans uses a lot of light imagery and personification to personify the place that the speaker as lost, as if it were a real person - this creates an illusion of loss, absence and grief in the poem.
Talk about how the Light Imagery and the War Imagery in the poem ‘The Emigrée’ is contrasted by Rumens
In the poem, Rumens use Light Imagery (such as ‘sunlight-clear’ and ‘glow’) to create a sense of hope and peace - which further portrays the speakers view of their old home.
However, alongside of Light Imagery, Rumens also uses a lot of War Imagery to illustrate the reality of what that “home” looks like now, such as ‘time rolls its tanks’ and ‘sick with Tryrants’.
Although, Rumens deliberately juxtaposes light & war imagery in the quote ‘it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’. The adjective ‘branded’ is purposefully used by Rumens to signify how even through the speakers home country is ‘sick’ with evil and ‘tanks’, that the speakers love for her country will forever rule over an pain or war that’s happening to it. Rumens deliberately does this to spread awareness on how someone’s love for their home country can affect them even in times of war.
Talk about Rumens use of Personification in the Emigrée
Rumens personify’s the speaker home country to help emphasise the speaker emotional attachment to it and possibly grief from having to leave it. For example, the speaker quotes ‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’ - Rumens deliberately uses human-like qualities to describe the county such as ‘hair’ and ‘eyes’ to personify it; to show how losing a person gives the same amount of pain that the speaker feels when losing their country. Moreover, the quote ‘my city takes me dancing though the city of walls’ proves this point further. Rumens deliberately uses the verb ‘dancing’ so the reader can associate it with joy and excitement with emphasises the speaker memory of it.
Give as three quotes from ‘The Emigrée’
Any three quotes form:
• ‘it may be sick with Tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
• ‘Time rolls its ranks’
• ‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’
• ‘glow’ & ‘sunlight-clear’
• ‘There was once a country…’
