Memorised Poems Flashcards
I wander through…
each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of….
every man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
How the chimney-sweepers…
Every blackning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most through midnight…
streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new-born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
Structure London
- 4 Quatrains
- abab rhyme scheme (restricted)
- repetition emphasises the horrors of London and creates a suffocating atmosphere
- Enjambment & Cesura
Form London
- Closed Form (mind is blocked off/restricted)
- Lyrical
- 1st person
- Iambic Tetrameter
Context London
- Romantic poet
- set during the industrial revolution
Language devices in London
- Juxtaposition of Death and love “ plagues the marriage Hearse”
- Anaphora “marks of weakness, marks of woe”
- Irony “chartered Thames does flow” the river should flow freely to the ocean
- metaphorical “mid-forged manacles”
I met a traveller…
from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well…
those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias…
King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Half a league…
half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! "Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”…
Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them…
Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.
Flash’d all their sabres bare…
Flash’d as they turn’d in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
…
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell...
While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?…
O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred.
Form Ozymandias
- Sonnet (14 lines) mixture of Shakesperian, Petrarchan and his own type to show the changing of power. does not contain the normal rhyme scheme of a sonnet and has alot of punctuation breaking up the lines.
- iambic pentameter
Structure Ozymandias
- no clear stanzas
- cesuras, emjambement and no clear rhyme scheme
- iambic pentameter and trochee
Context Ozymandia
- Romantic poet
- rich family went to Eton and Oxford but was expelled
- against the monarchy
- about Ramses the Egyptian pharaoh (religious critique “king of kings” Ramses was the one who persecuted Moses)
Language devices Ozymandias
- nomenclature “ozy” - breath “mandate” to rule
- Ozymandias is a symbol of power
- “cold command” sibilance emphasises the harsh nature of the king
- ironic that he expected to live forever
- imagery “boundless and bare”
Form Charge Of The Light Brigade
- Strong Rhythm Dactyl Di-meter like a horse evokes military rhythm
- momentum is broken by um-rhymed lines showing the horses stumbling +falling
Structure Charge Of The Light Brigade
- Narrative
- 3rd Person
- exclamatory and rhetorical sentences “when can their glory fade?/ o the wild charge the made!”
- “reply/why/die” rhyme emphasises obedience
Context Charge Of The Light Brigade
- celebration of courage against impossible adversity in the Crimean war
- “valley of death” alludes to the bible
Literary Devices Charge Of The Light Brigade
- anaphora
- Sibilance “shot and shell”
- personification of death “jaws of death / mouth of hell”
- The use of verbs “charging/plunged” shows action and increasing pace.
- admiration “horse and hero fell”
Form Exposure
- Narrative
Structure Exposure
- Refrain “but nothing happens”
- rhetorical questions “is it that we are dying?”
- 8 stanzas of 5 lines (indentation emphasises importance)
- rhyme scheme of abba shows the unchanging nature of daily life
- half rhyme unsettles the reader “knive us/nervous”
Context Exposure
- WW1
- treated for shell-shock
- wrote his poems in the trenches
- “our brains ache” mimics the start of one of Owens favourite poems by Keates
- written to counter the propaganda from governments
Literary Devices Exposure
- Kinaesthetic Imagery “winds the knive”
- theme of despair “what are we doing here?”
- auditory and visual imagery “flickering gunnery rumbles”
- oxymoron “black with snow”
- tricolon “ flock, pause and renew”
- sibilance “streak the silence”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: “Spools of…
Suffering”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: “ordinary…
pain”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER: “half-formed…
ghost”
REMAINS: “possibly armed…
Probably not”
REMAINS: anaphora
“i see every round as it…”
“i see broad daylight”
REMAINS: “blood-shadow…
stays on the street”
REMAINS: “his bloody life…
in my bloody hands” - allusions to Macbeth, unfinised
Kamikaze: what does sunrise represent?
the Japanese flag
Kamikaze: “enough fuel for a…
one-way journey into history”
Kamikaze: “strung out like…
bunting” similie
Kamikaze: “dark-prince,…
muscular, dangerous”
Kamikaze: “he must have wondered which had been the…
better way to die”
Kamikaze: structure
tight structure (control of the military) italics emphasise the uncertainty of the pilot persona changes expresses the turbulent, but repressed feelings of the daughter. enjambment freedom the pilot wants to have
Kamikaze: form
Retrospective
free verse
