Poetry - quotes Flashcards
(36 cards)
OZYMANDIAS
“Boundless …”
“And bare”
OZYMANDIAS
“Colossal…”
“Wreck”
OZYMANDIAS
“King…”
“Of kings”
OZYMANDIAS
“Sneer…”
“Of cold command”
OZYMANDIAS
Structure?
Sonnet - love/hate = arrogance and importance and dominance
LONDON
“Marks…”
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
LONDON
Repetition?
Chartered
In every…
Shows control and emphasis
LONDON
Mind-….
Mind-forged manacles
The industrial revolution, no freedom and pure control
LONDON
Black’…
Black’ning church
Morally corrupt
LONDON
Structure??
Quatrains
Order mirrors town
PRELUDE
celestial semantic field
Glittering
Sparkling
An elfin pinnace
PRELUDE
like…
like a swan
PRELUDE
Tone change?
Line 22 with contrast of language
PRELUDE
Structure?
1 stanza
Clear, haunting, uninterrupted memory
Breathless and overwhelmed
PRELUDE
Showing fear?
Huge
Black
Grim
-Childish language
Trembling
-weakness, predatory
EXPOSURE
Sunk…
Sunk fires, with crusted dark red jewels
Blood? Fire?
EXPOSURE
Our…
Our ghosts drag home
EXPOSURE
Their…
Their eyes are ice
EXPOSURE
Harsh weather??
Pale flakes with fingering stealth
Shivering ranks of grey
Merciless iced east winds that knive us
EXPOSURE
Structure?
8 stanzas, emphasis and short
Repeated line “but nothing happens” to mirror schedule, predictable
WP
A hundred
A hundred agonies in black and white
WP
How does he describe the viewers??
Eyeballs prick
They do not care
To pick out five or six
WP
Spools…
Spools of suffering
-sibilance
WP
A…
A half formed ghost
