Poetry Flashcards
London quoted
Mine forged manacle
Semantic field of oppression
Symbolism of manacle
In every infants cry of fear
Anaphora mass suffering
Oxymoron infant fear
ABAB rhyme
Emulate mass oppression
Iambic tetrametre
Heighten motif of oppression
Anti church and gov
Part of songs of experience
Ozymandias
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
Irony of the kings pride
Collapse on tyranny
Lone and level sands nothing beside remains
Alliteration emphasises effect of nature
Passage of time nature will prevail
Ozymandias sonnet with himself
Iambic pentameter
Motif of control
Anti monarchy and pacifist
Dem tell me
I carving out me identity
Personal pronoun taking charge
Colloquialism celebrates his dialect
Mary sea Cole fire woman struggle healing star
Motif of light paired with historical figure
Star could be used as way to say these figures illuminated way to freedom
Free verse to show his new found freedom
Grew up in British Guyana
Oppressive education system
Exposure
Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
Personification of destructive Mother Nature
Ironic Dawn used for renewal and peace
Wrote this in the war
Inspired by writers like sigfreid who critiqued war and jingoistic attitudes
We turn back to our dying
Semantic field of death and decay soldiers accept death
Disillusioned with religion
Pararhyme
Unease anxious “knife us nervous”
Cyclical structure
