fjeijsj Flashcards
“forgetting that it pummels your house too”
power of nature is more than the power of man
wearing down the house
The very windows, spits like a tame cat
Turned savage.We just sit tight while wind dives
Simile the poet uses a very familiar image to describe something that is powerful and majestic, this undermines the strength of the weather, suggesting it is only scary if we choose to let it.
the idiom implies it is so powerful it is preventing them from doing whatever they wanted to do.
enjambment
unpredictable
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
it is violent ‘exploding’ but happy or at home ‘comfortably’ in this environment.
‘raise a tragic chorus in a gale’
nature is not there to protect or sympathise with us
“bombarded by empty air”
cannot prepare to fight nature as it will overpower us- wind symbolised as a fighter plane
“every blackning church appalls”
moved away from christs teaching
Blake saw London as lifeless
Runs in blood down palace walls
French revolution - all nobels executed
Blake is questioning the people of London in why they haven’t done the same
Warning to those in power that this will eventually happen in England
I wander thro each chater’d street
complaining about urbanisation
evrything that was once free is now owned by the rich
the mind-for’d manacles I hear
Blake suggesting it is our own fault and that this idea of hierarchy isn’t real
manacles - imprisonment
we are owned by something higher up
“youthful Harlot’s curse
poverty was so high - young girls had to become prostetutes
and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse§
oxymorron
even marriage is dead
Nothing is happy in London
Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me
not using english to show how he is proud of his identity
seperates himself from the English education system to make it not a direct criticism
sunlight
motif for hope
I carried here like a hollow doll
looks back on her child views as false
I comb its hair and love its shining eyes
like a doll
shining eyes - can’t actually see, her old views may be blind
only able to recreate versions of her past
They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence as sunlight
they mutter death- either tyrants in previous country or the people in her new ccity rejecting her
she still carries her childhood h=with her - good childhood
“There once was a country”
Use of child-like language to show how she doesn’t accept that this place has become full of tyrants and violence.
“it make be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight”
innnnit
Quotes from exposure
“merciless iced east winds that knive us…” - assonance of ‘i’ slows down and mimics the exposure of the soldiers”
“dawn massing in the east her melancholy army” - pathetic fallacy shows mens feelings.
“Attacks more in ranks and ranks on shivering ranks of grey”- repetition.
‘But nothing happens’ - Refrain emphasises the futility of war. Conjunction shows the defiance of expectation - people expect war to be all bloodshed and fighting, but the somewhat harsher reality is boredom and fear of the unknown
“mad gusts”
ozymandius
“I met a traveller from an antique land”- detaches himself from poem to make it clear that this isn’t a direct attack on the British monarchy. He uses this poem to criticise King George III’s arrogance in his power.
“Sneer of cold command” - he has lost his power; cold = dead. Hard ‘c’ sound reflects harsh nature of ozymandius.
“lone and level lands stretch far away”
