poetry Flashcards
war photographer quotes?
finally alone
darkroom
half-formed ghost
war photographer darkroom
Literally a room for developing photographes. Connotations of a serious, brooding, bleak, scary place : perhaps suggesting the job takes the photographer to a dark place mentally: and to a place filled with stress and horror.
war photographer half-formed ghost
it can be a metaphor for an polorized camera drying up and the terror of the the pictures could give the image of a ghost
war photographer finally alone
Word Choice and Inversion
Inversion places these words at the end of the sentence for emphasis. ‘finally’ suggests he has been looking for solitude, desparate to escape someone or something. The emphasis on being ‘alone’ recreates the loneliness of his job: separated from his subject, editor and his readers.
exposure quotes?
our brains ache
the merciless iced west winds that knife us
nervous’ ,worried’, ‘twitching
exposure our brains ache
the possessive pronoun ‘our’ suggest that this is a shared, painful experience
exposure the merciless iced west winds that knife us
personification of nature its attacking nd wounding them or i could be seen as the government backstabbing the soliders
exposure nervous’ ,worried’, ‘twitching
scemantic field of PTSD
always waiting for something to happen
ozymandias quotes?
Of that colossal wreck
lone and level sand streatch far away
my name is ozymandias, king of kings
ozymanndias Of that colossal wreck
The ruined statue shows how human achievements are insignificant compared to the passing of time. The oxymoron here is used to emphasise that his work did not last and show the scale of destruction. Nothing is left and even if it is in a million pieces and a symbol of the consequences of power not his success.
ozymanndias lone and level sand streatch far away
this could emply that even the great power of the emperor faded away form time throught the power of nature. further more when the writer talkes about how it is “lone”,”level” shows us that he was forgotten by the use of alliteration to enphasize the bareness
ozymanndias my name is ozymandias, king of kings
criticizes leaders and their ideas of themselves and ability to rule suggests he views himself as omnipotent being and its also ironic as he was the king of kings meant to be known by all but he was forgotten in the vast sand
London quotes?
The mind-forged manacles I hear
black’ning in church
chartered thames
london The mind-forged manacles I hear
William Blake uses a metaphor in the quote … This is used to highlight how the poor have no escape out of poverty,as they are stuck/trapped in this way of life.
london black’ning in church
At this point in the poem, Blake’s message can be seen. He has a problem with religion as the quote … shows that the church is not using it’s power to help the poor, even though it should.
