P2 - Poetry - Power And Conflict Flashcards
Ozymandias - three quotes
‘Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command’ - alliteration [cruel]
‘Look on my works he mighty and despair’ - imperative [commanding]
‘Boundless and bare’ - alliteration [contrast as he has no more power]
Ozymandias - structure
Sonnet
London - four quotes
‘Mind-forged manacles’ - alliteration [prison in mind]
‘Every black’ning church appalls’ - stained with soot, Church is to blame
‘Hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls’ - metaphor [sacrifice]
‘Blights with blagues the marriage hearse’ - marriages destroyed by prostitution
London - structure
Four quatrains
My Last Duchess - four quotes
‘Dies along her throat’ - direct speech [foreshadows death]
‘Each would draw from her alike the approving speech’ - jealous
‘My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name’ - materialistic
‘I gave commands then all smiles stopped together’ - he kills her, dominance
My Last Duchess - structure
Iambic Pentameter
Enjambment and caesurae - carried away by anger
The Charge Of The Light Brigade - five quotes
‘Into the valley of death’ - metaphor, biblical imagery [solemn]
‘Cannon to right of them/cannon to left of them/cannon in front of them’ - monosyllabic [explosive, gun shots]
‘Not the six hundred’ - breaks rhythm
‘When can their glory fade?’ - rhetorical question [strength]
‘Honour’ - repetition, imperative [patriotic, appreciate their memory]
Storm On The Island - five quotes
‘Like a tame cat/turned savage’ - enjambment [agressive]
‘Exploding comfortably’ - oxymoron [familiar so comfortable]
‘No stacks or stooks’ - sibilance [solidarity]
‘It is a huge nothing we fear’ - unknown
‘Strafes…space is a salvo’ - sibilance [firing of artillery]
Exposure - six quotes
‘But nothing happens’ - repetition [never-ending]
‘Merciless iced east winds that knife us’ - personification [discomfort of wind attacking]
‘Sudden successive flights of bullets’ - sibilance [hissing of bullets]
‘Shivering ranks of grey’ - sensory description [bleak and hopeless]
‘Brambles’ - metaphor [nature is hostile to man]
‘Poignant misery of dawn’ - juxtaposition [bitterness]
Bayonet Charge - four quotes
‘Green hedge/that dazzled with rifle fire’ - peaceful disturbed by war
‘Cold clockwork’ - alliteration [control, just another cog in war machine]
‘Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’ - simile [yellow=fear, vulnerability]
‘Terror’s touchy dynamite’ - alliteration [mentally exploding from fear]
Remains - four quotes
‘Probably armed, possibly not’ - repetition [reassurance and guilt]
‘As it rips through his life’ - metaphor [guilt]
‘Tosses his guts back into his body’ - normalised
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’ - couplet [remorse]
Poppies - four quotes
‘Sellotape bandaged around my hand’ - war imagery [homely image - parents put plasters on when you are hurt]
‘Run my fingers through the gelled black thorns of your hair’ - metaphor, biblical imagery [Jesus, sacrifices]
‘The world overflowing like a treasure chest’ - simile [excited]
‘Releasing a songbird from its cage’ - metaphor [discovering by himself]
Poppies - structure
Monologue
Casurae- slows down, taking time to process, reliving memories
War Photographer - four quotes
‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.’ - plosives [gunfire]
‘All flesh is gras‘ - human life is temporary when you die you decompose
‘Editor will pick out five or six’ - unimportance of people, control
‘Between the bath and the pre-lunch beers’ - trivialises reader’s lives, contrast of those not affected
Checking Out Me History - five quotes
‘Bandage…blind’ - metaphor, plosives [caged from his identity, injured]
‘Beacon’ ‘Fire woman’ ‘Healing star’ ‘Yellow sunrise’ - metaphors [guides to world]
