Poems Flashcards
Ozymandias- power themes
Human power is temporary Power of time Power of nature Power of art Tyrannical power (indirect criticism of monarchy) Abuse of power
Ozymandias quotes
‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies’
‘sneer of cold command’
‘its sculptor well those passions read’
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings’
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains’ (immediate placement)
Round the decay Of that colossal wreck
London quotes
Chartered street Chartered thames 'In every cry of every man' 'In every infant's cry of fear' 'The mind-forged manacles I hear' 'Every black'ning church appalls' 'Runs in blood down palace walls' 'How the youthful harlot's curse Blasts the new-born infant' tear' 'Blights with plagues the marriage hearse'
London power themes
Power of the monarchy Abuse of power Power of the church Power of the rich Mental power Power of control Power of suffering
Extract from, the Prelude power themes
Power of nature Power of maturity Power of ignorance Power of fear Lack of power of humans
Extract from ,the Prelude quotes
‘an act of stealth’
‘circles glittering idly in the moon’
‘went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘a huge peak, black and huge’
‘Upreared its head’
‘Towered up between me and the stars’
‘No familiar shapes, no pleasant images of trees, no colours of green fields’
‘Were a trouble to my dreams’ (the forms’
My Last Duchess
‘the curtain I have drawn for you’
‘Half-flush that dies along her throat’ foreshadows
‘her looks went everywhere’
‘She had
‘A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad, ‘
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name’
‘I gave the commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.’ Immediate placement
Hus fair daughter’s self is ‘my object’
My Last Duchess power ideas
Power of wealth Power of memory Power of jealousy Mental power Posthumous power/power after death Power of murder limited
The Charge of the Light Brigade quotes
'Rode the six hundred' like galloping, keeps moving forward, pace 'Into the jaws of Death' 'Into the mouth of Hell' 'the soldier knew Some one had blundered' 'While horse and hero fell' brief focus, hovers over 'Theirs' not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die Honour repeated 'Noble six hundred!'
Canon to the right of them, left, in fromt of them
TCOTLB power themes
Power of rank
Lions ked by donkeys
Power of courage
Power of stupidity
Exposure quotes
‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
‘Worried by silence’
‘mad gusts tugging on the wire
‘But nothing happens’ ends with this as well
‘What are we doing here? ‘
‘For love of God seems dying’
‘Not otherwise can kind fires burn’
Exposure conflict themes
Futility of war
War leads to suffereing of aoldiers
Mental conflict and physical conflict, pointlessness
SOTI quotes
‘We are prepared: we build our houses squat’
‘So as you see’
‘You know what I mean’
But there are no trees, no natural shelter
‘You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
But no:’
‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘We just sit tight’
‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’
War vocab: blast exploding bombarded strafes
when it blows full
Blast
Pummels
SOTI themes
Power of nature
Powerlessness of humans
Power of man undermined by nature (false sense of security’
War photogrpaher
‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
‘a priest preparing to intone a Mass.’ compares himself
‘which did not tremble then though seem to now’
‘the blood stained into foreign dust.’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six’’
The reader’s eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.’
‘…they do not care’
Add the end ones
War photograoher themes
Power of conflict
Power of photography
Power of media/editing
The Émigrée quotes
memory is ‘sunlight-clear’
The worst news I receive of it ‘cannot break my original view’
‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants,
but I am left with an ‘impression of sunlight.’
‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here’
‘my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’
The Emigree themes
Power of memory
Power of control
Power the mind
Power of denial
Poppies quotes
‘smoothed down your shirt’s upturned collar’
‘steeled the softening of my face’
‘the world overflowing
like a treasure chest’
‘I went into yout bedroom, released a song bird from its cage’
‘The dove pulled freely against the sky’
‘hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’
Emjambment lack of comtrol
Poppies themes
Power of hope
Power of war
Power of conflict
Power of love
Bagonet Charge quotes
‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’
‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest’
‘Listening between his footfalls for the reason’
‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
Dropping like luxuries in yelling alarm’
Bayonet charge themes
Mental power Power of conflict Power of fear Futility of war Power of rank
Remains quotes
‘On another ocassion we get sent out’
‘Probably armed, possibly not’
Myself and somebody else and somebody else
are all of the same mind
‘I see every round as it rips through his life’
‘he’s there on the ground, sort of inside out’
One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body
‘Then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry’ dehumanisation
‘End of story, except not really’
‘But I blink
(New stanza, completely seperate reality)
and he bursts again through the doors of the bank’
‘And the drinks and the drugs won’t flush him out’
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
His blood-shadow stays on the street
dug in behind enemy lines
Remains themes
Suffering Mental conflict Lack of care of soldiers Trauma Mental damage Power of death Power of guilt Power of memory
Tissue themes
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Tissue quotes
'Paper that lets the light shine theough' 'the Koran' link her religious beliefs 'who died where and how, on which sepia date' 'turned (above) transparent with attention' 'If buildings were paper' '.. see how easily they fall away from a sigh' Maps too, the sun shines through their borderlines' 'Fine slips from grocery shops... might fly our lives like paper kites' reinforces fragility, control, insignificance in grand scheme of things 'with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last' Ending: turned into your skin
Tissue themes
Power of money
Human constructs meaningless
Power of nature
Fragility of humans
London structure
Quatrains
ABABAB ENDLESS SUFFERING
Control by gov
Extract from the prelude structure
One long stanza
Overwhelming, reflects how woodsworth overwhelmed as a child
Add more
Poppies structure
Varied stanza length Enjambment Free verse (Lack of control) Drmamtic monologue - heightens sense of being alone
SOTI structure
Half ryhme at beginning end, storm inescapable
Uncontrollabke nature
Enjambment under constant attack - relentlessness of the storm
Tissue structure
No rhyme
Free verse
Humans try to order everything futile
Ozymandias structure
One short structure -d istances
‘I met a traveller’ .. who said ,myth forgotten -beginning
‘sands stretch far away’ -end
Shortness of reign
Sonnet
Fourteen-line single stanza
Iambic pentameter, but several variations e,g. ‘Nothing beside remains’
Exposure structure
Rhetorical question
Detatched from stanza, zooming out, reflection, bigger picture
London structure and form
Divided into four stanzas (quatrains), with an ABAB rhyming scheme
Gives it simple rhythm
His last word summarises his views on the city
First quatrain - what he can see
2nd -what he can hear
Overaching pessimism remains present throughout
Checking Out Me History Quotes
'Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me' 'Bandage up me eye with me own history' 'dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat But Toussaint L'Overture no dem never tell me bout dat' 'But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity'
Repetition tired fustration
Checking out me history structure
Uses physical seperation of stanzas and font styles to indicate the culture he’s referencing
British stuff has longer lines, tegular font, simolistic rhymes to signify lack of importance he associates
Rejects European language and uses Carribean, Creole dialect and fluid verse without punctuation
Kamikaze quotes
'(With a ) samurai sword,..., a shaven head' 'journey into history' 'little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea' 'grandfather's boat - safe to the shore' 'his mother never spoke again in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed' 'we too learned to be slient, to live as though he had never returned, that this was no longer the father we loved.' 'he must have wondered which had been the better way to die(compares this current to death).'
Kamikaze structure
Narrative poem
Seven six-line stanzas
Doesn’t rhyme
No regular rhytmic pattern, though most lines have three or four stresses
Regular stamza structure
Poem only composed of three sentences and contains only three full-tops
Perhaps this reflects this story is told orally
Forst stanza from cockpit long- overwhelming decision
Second sentence -shift in time and speaker (daughter) until this point ghe story was re-told in third-person narrative, creating distancing effect, now more direct
This sentence is surprise as we learn decision. As this is with time and speaker shift, infromation has more impact
Final sentences reverts to third person and has the twist
Each cahnge and shift has jarring and unsettling effect on reader and perhaps reflects turbulent, but repressed feelings of the daughter
Enjambment
Transformation of the boat in Extract
‘A little boat’
‘Elfin pinnace’
Heaving through the water like a swan
Emigree ending meaning
‘my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’
Her live for the place endures, ends with a positive image
War photographer steucture
Four stanzas each six lines Rhyme pattern Reflects his job Caesura - Rural England Internal rhyme tears and beers, quickens pace, speed that they dwell on it
