Power and conflict

Question 1

Ozymandias - Form

Answer 1

1. Sonnet (love poetry) used to mock and ridicule the lack of love Ozymandias had from his people
2. His poem outlasts tyrannical rulers

Question 2

“Sneer of cold command”

Answer 2

1. Tyrannical leader
2. Shelley mocks tyranny which doesn’t lead to long lasting power
3. Artist has brilliantly captured Ozymandias

Question 3

“Shattered visage lies”

Answer 3

1. Irony as this is all that’s left of a great powerful ruler

Question 4

“The lone and level sands stretch far away”

Answer 4

1. Nature is continual
2. Ozymandias is being engulfed by the sand of time and the sand of the desert

Question 5

Exposure - Form

Answer 5

1. Pararhyme - partial rhyme
2. Lots of young men went to war, exposing the propaganda - these men’s lives were cut short and not fully there like the rhyme
3. Us readers are waiting for the rhyme to complete just like the soldiers who are waiting for the war to commence

Question 6

“But nothing happens”

Answer 6

1. Pararhyme here with the readers waiting for the rhyme to complete like the soldiers who are waiting for the war to commence
2. However, like the soldiers, “nothing happens”
3. Sympathy for the soldiers who are going through it

Question 7

“Exposure”

Answer 7

1. Dual meaning
2. Showing that the soldiers are being physically and psychologically exposed in the trenches. The real battle however, is the weather conditions
3. Exposing the reality of war and how inhumane and harsh it was

Question 8

“All their eyes are ice”

Answer 8

1. The men are being emasculated by the weather
2. They are being tortured by war and becoming lesser of a man
3. They’ve lost their identity and their eyes are now just “ice”

Question 9

London - Form

Answer 9

1. Quatrain rhyme scheme - ABAB
2. Each line is only four lines - it’s rigid and controlled with no freedom of expression
3. Exposing the reality of the “Great British Empire”

Question 10

“I wander through each chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow”

Answer 10

1. With rapid urbanisation, it is dehumanising people and destroying the city
2. All property is owned by the rich and so the everyday people of London live a restricted life
3. Blake is anti-establishment - they dictate the authority and don’t give to the poor

Question 11

“The hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls”

Answer 11

1. The ordinary person sacrificing themselves for the rule makers

Question 12

“And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Mind-forged manacles”

Answer 12

1. Everyone isn’t the same but they are at the same level of misery
2. No one able to be an individual because of the “manacles” which oppressive control in society has given them