Poetry Quotations Power and Conflict Flashcards
Give two quotations for War Photographer and explain them briefly.
“Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now.”
- The sibilance “solutions slop” emphasises the responsibility he had to help victims.
“A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes a half-formed ghost”
- The personification of the photo emphasises the the trauma caused by the conflict.
Give three quotations for Ozymandias and briefly explain them.
“The lone and level sands stretch far away”
- The alliteration, nature goes on.
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,”
- Caesura and sibilance emphasises the irony. Visage meaning face.
” king of kings: / Look on my works, ye mighty and despair!”
- Dramatic irony, expects kingdom to survive. Best king but his story is being told by a traveller is ironic.
Give three quotations for London and briefly explain them.
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
- Alliteration highlights how trapped and controlled the people of London are.
- Metaphor emphasises control of thoughts and mindset, through manacles.
“Runs in blood down palace walls.”
- Metaphor emphasises exploitation and corruption in monarchy.
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”.
- Breaks from iambic tetrameter. Repetition of marks.
Give three quotations for Kamikaze and explain them briefly.
“a shaven head / full of powerful incantations”
- Metaphor. Spells controlling his head.
“he must have wondered / which had been the better way to die.”
- Modal verb. - Existential imagery thoughts after death.
“this / was no longer the father we loved.”
- End-stopped, end of his humanity. - Dehumanization.
Give three quotations for My Last Duchess and explain them briefly.
“Looking as if she were alive.” (not end of line)
- Caesura, like terminated life of wife. Only ever a possession to him.
“(since none puts by / The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)”
- Curtain symbolic of control. - Plosives - Enjambment - forcing statement across, free flow of wife’s defiance. -Repetition of first person pronouns.
“Taming a sea-hose, thought a rarity, / Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”
- Embedded metaphor of taming. Statue is rare, he only cares about wealth.
