Power and Conflict Flashcards
Wordsworth (The Prelude)
What quote shows speakers confidence and uncertainty.
Proud of his skill
“And were a trouble to my dreams”
Tennyson
What does regular rhyme pattern show?
Soldiers relentless drive forwards
and inevitability of their deaths
How does Bayonet charge lack formality?
Enjambment and free verse
Ozymandias structure points
Sonnet
Iambic pentameter
Irregular rhyme scheme (lack of power of ozy)
Shakespearean rhyme
Volta between octave and sestet
Ozymandias language points
allusion “king of kings”repeats
contrast juxtapose
irony
plosive sounds
quote for Ozymandias (nature) theme
vast and trunkless legs of stone
shattered visage= power ephemeral
king of king
Cold command
colossal wreck
boundless and bare = alliteration
pride and arrogance
Poppies
contemporary war poem
dramatic monologue
war imagery
Poppies (themes)
loss and loneliness
poppies (language)
rule of 3
metaphor
“all my words flattened rolled and turned to felt”
senses
poppies quote
“spasm of red.. blockade of yellow”
“sellotape bandaged”
world overflowing like treasure chest..intoxicated”
Poppies structure
free verse (outpour of emotion +stream of conciounceness)
cyclical
remains utilise grusome imagegyr
sort of inside out..tosses his guts inside his body
pain itself..the image of agony
contrast of casualness of death when the soldier is at war, and the horror of his memories when he is at home.
suffering is ongoing and he constantly re-plays the memories
i swear I see every round as it rips through his life
london metre
iambic tetrameter
Remains Quote
Myself somebody else and somebody else.
Probably armed possibly not
Pain.. the image of agony
End of story except not really
His blood shadow stays on the street
But I blink And he bursts through the bank
pbly arned psbly not (motif repeat)
Dug in behind enemy lines
Drinks and drugs wont flush out
