poetry Flashcards
1
Q
Ozymandias
A
- “king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
- “nothing beside remains”
- “colossal wreck”
- “cold sneer”
- “shattered visage”
- “lone and level” / “boundless and bare”
2
Q
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
A
- nobody
- who are you?
- admiring bog
- like a frog
- how dreary to be somebody
- they’d banish us, you know!
3
Q
Aspiration
A
- we never know how high we are
- our statures touch the sky
- did not ourselves the cubits warp
- for fear to be king