Ozymandias quotes an dlinks

Question 1

‘Antique Land’

Answer 1

Antique adjective = old,could = LEGENDARY, could = fragile, decrepid, outdated

Question 2

‘Vast and Trunkless’

Answer 2

Oxymoronic phrase
Trunkless = end of power at the roots
Conveys extent of power loss in current time period

Question 3

‘Stone // stand’

Answer 3

Enjambed alliteration highlights emptiness of land, largeness that it once was now empty
Extent of fall

Question 4

‘…Near them’

Answer 4

EMPTINESS, EMPTINESS

elipses creates pause to illuminate EMPTINESS

Question 5

‘Shattered visage’

Answer 5

Onomatopoeic highlughts shattered empire, completely ruined

Question 6

‘Cold command’

Answer 6

Harsh alliteration emphasizes tyranny

Question 7

‘Ye mighty and despair’

‘Nothing besides remains’

Answer 7

Irony in comparison to nothing besides remains to eilluminate hubristic qualities // power of nature to remove and forget

Question 8

‘lone and level sands’

Answer 8

alliteration emphasizes extensive flat lines, endless desert

everything detroyed comletey

Question 9

Link to?

Answer 9

Mametz wood

Power of nature to write histroy
Power of human / power of nature conflict

Sheers emodying Shelley’s belief that poets are legislators and wirting welsh into history

Question 10

Mametz wood quotes

Answer 10

'Wasted young'
'Farmers found them'
'broken bird's egg of a skull'
'nesting machine guns'
'earth stands sentinal' 'reaching' ' into itself'
'boots that outlasted them'
'sung' ' only now' 'absent tongues'
'mid dance'