Quotations Flashcards
Ozymandias:
Shows how big and left alone the statue is
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Ozymandias:
Shows how time has eaten the statue
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Ozymandias:
The leader was a strong commander
“sneer of cold command”
Ozymandias:
He is the most important and strongest
“king of kings”
Ozymandias:
Old, abandoned, big place left behind
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
London:
The street is organised, no sepecific destination
“I wander through each chartered street”
London:
There is a lot of struggle to survive in the city
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
London:
People trapped by their own thoughts
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
London:
No happiness in this place, everyone is fed up
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
London:
Even happy things are bad
“plagues the marriage hearse”
Extract from the prelude:
Happy start to story, warm.
“One summer evening (led by her)”
Extract from the prelude:
Oxymoron-good and bad things together
“troubled pleasure”
Extract from the prelude:
Something large is popping up
“a huge peak, black and huge”
Extract from the prelude:
Pleased with himself, it is silent
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
Extract from the prelude:
Something following him, regret.
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
