Poems Flashcards
Ozymandias - shows power
“King of kings”
Ozymandias - mentions size and firmness of the statue
” Two vast and trunkless legs of stone “
Ozymandias - refers to authority and lack of emotions
” sneer of cold command “
Ozymandias - uses language that suggets abandoned and broken
” Half-sunk, a shattered visage lies “
Ozymadias - refers to the size and damage aswell as emptiness
” collosal wreck, boundless and bare “
London - suggests interest in the city
” I wander through each chartered street “
London - shows the depression and lack of power that the people have
” marks of weakness, marks of woe “
London - refers to the people not being able to change positions in life
” The mind-forged manacles I hear “
London - refers to dangerous jobs and inequality among the military
” chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh “
London - brings up death but also new beginnings in life
” plagues the marriage hearse “
Prelude - suggests it was a calm, beautiful time, unclear with who
” One summer evening (led by her) “
Prelude - suggests the narrator is getting worried
” troubled pleasure “
Prelude - suggests shear size and power it holds
” a huge peak, black and huge “
Prelude - gives a calm and relaxing tone
” lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake “
Prelude - suggests there is looming danger and loneliness
” there hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion “
