Key Quotations Flashcards
Ozymandias
“My name is ozymandias, king of kings” Meaning: He is calling himself a God
“A shattered vissage lies” Meaning: Sibilance hissing sound
London
“The mind-forged manacles i hear” Meaning: handcuffs made by the mind
“Black’ning church” Meaning: coal dust makes everything black and the church is corrupt
The prelude
“Huge peak, black and huge” Meaning: stuttering from shock and basic language lost for words
“Trouble to my dreams” Meaning: This memory always stays with him
My last duchess
“As if she ranked my gift of a nine hundred years old name” Meaning: how can she look at someone else the way she looks at me
“I gave commands then all smiles stopped together” Meaning: he got somebody to kill her
Charge of the light brigade
“All in the valley of death” BIBLE REFERENCE Meaning: theres parralels between the soldiers and Jesus
“Horse and hero fell” Meaning: not soldiers but heroes
Exposure
“For love God seems dying” Meaning: they felt that God had left them
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us” Meaning: Hes comparing the weather to a weapon
Storm on the island
“Spits like a tame cat” Meaning: that the sea is unpredictable and savage this is also a simili
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear” Meaning: The power of nature as its nothing but still fearful
Bayonet charge
“Towards a green hedge” Meaning: Dense line of soldiers standing strong
“King,honour,human dignity,etcetera” Meaning: These arent imortant to him anymore, he doesnt care
Remains
“His blood-shadow stays on the street” Meaning: He is followed by it this memory
“Dozen times…sort of inside out” Meaning: Been shot 12 times-extreme graphic imagery
“His bloody life in my bloody hands” Meaning: He feels guilt/y
Poppies
“Your playground voice catching on the wind” Meaning: shes longing for him to come back
“Realesed a song bird from its cage” Meaning: Shes finally letting her emotions out
War Photographer
“Sundays supplement” Meaning: Photos didnt even make front page there in the middle there showing how its not recognized and should be much more important
“All flesh is grass” Meaning: All life is only temporal
Tissue
“Might fly our lives like paper kites” Meaning: were at the mercy/controlled by money,receipts
“Thinnes by age or touching” Meaning: ages like humans/vulnerable
The Emigree
“The bright filled paperweights” Meaning: Memory holds her together
“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight” Meaning: Her memory is fading
Checking out me history
When he uses italics its when hes saying important stuff
“Dem tell me” constant repition of this throughout symbolizing they tell you only what they want you to know and learn about
“I checking out me own history” Meaning: Hes now doing it for himself
Kamikaze
“Nor did she meet his eyes” Meaning: she cant bare to look at him anymore
“Father we loved” they taught not to love there father anymore
