Poems Quotes Flashcards
Highlights power, and vastness
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
A shattered legacy, half sunk
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Coldness in orders
“sneer of cold command”
The power and influence over kings
“king of kings”
Again highlights size, along with the legacy of something. Bare
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Mapped out streets, planned ordered.
“I wander through each chartered street”
Feelings/evidence of weakness and woe
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
The mentally forged cuffs that restrict people, he can hear.
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
Sibilance, onoematepia. Chimney sweeps.
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
Marriage and death
“plagues the marriage hearse”
Summer evening being led.
“One summer evening (led by her)”
Guilt/troubling
“troubled pleasure”
The power of nature, a huge immovable obeject.
“a huge peak, black and huge”
Rowing, quiet lake and the rapid dipping of the oars.
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
A feeling of dread and being abandonded/deserted.
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
Last duchess
“my last Duchess”
A half-flush death along her throat
“half-flush that dies along her throat”
Legacy thats a gift
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
Command, smiles dropped
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
God of the sea, sea horse tamed
“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse”
