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OZYMANDIAS - controlling

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“Sneer of cold command”

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OZYMANDIAS - arrogant

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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my words, he mighty and despair!”

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OZYMANDIAS - setting

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“Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sand stretch far away”

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LONDON - everything is owned

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“I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow”

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LONDON - restrictions in mind

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“The mind- forged manacles I hear”

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LONDON - soldiers are suffering

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“The hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down palace walls”

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THE PRELUDE - confident with nature (the water)

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“Like a swan”

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THE PRELUDE- the mountain is towering over him

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“ a huge peak, black and huge”

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THE PRELUDE - he is left confused and depressed

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“There hung a darkness” (over his mind)

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MY LAST DUCHESS - ownership of the duchess

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“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall”

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MY LAST DUCHESS - euphemism for his wife’s murder

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“I gave commands; then all smiles stopped”

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MY LAST DUCHESS - form

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Use of rhyming couplets show controlling nature

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - they were on a suicide mission

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“Theirs but to do and die”

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THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - they were riding into Hell

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“Into the jaws of death”

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THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIDGADE - honour them

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“Honour The Charge they made! Honour the light brigade”

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EXPOSURE - affect of the cold

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“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”

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EXPOSURE - form

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Regular ABBAC rhyme scheme, shows relentlessness of war

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EXPOSURE - god

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“For the love of God seems dying”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND - the people just have to wait

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“We just sit tight while wind dives/ And storages invisibly”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND- form

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Written in blank verse, in rhyming lines

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STORM ON THE ISLAND - you forget it could happen to you

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“So that you can listen to the thing you fear/ forgetting that it pummels your house too”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND - the fear is pointless

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“We are bombarded by empty air / Strange. It’s a huge nothing that we fear”

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KAMIKAZE - he must have wished he died

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“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die”

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KAMIKAZE - they don’t love his father anymore

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“This was no longer the father we loved”

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KAMIKAZE - the father changed his mind due to the beauty of nature

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“He must have looked far down / At the little fishing boats / Strung out like bunting”

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BAYONET CHARGE - violent imagery

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“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”

  • violent imagery and onomatopoeia describes the sound and impact of the shots
  • belly is soft and fleshy - could be seen as vulnerable
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BAYONET CHARGE - soldiers fear

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“His terror’s touchy dynamite”

  • alliteration and metaphor
  • 2 meanings: 1. He is very close to a mental breakdown 2. He is used as a weapon, driven by his terror
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BAYONET CHARGE - starting to question his patriotism

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“In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations / Was he the hand pointing that second?”

  • emphasises how insignificant the soldier I and shows his lack of control.
  • ”cold” implies that the people in charge are emotionally cold and don’t care about the individual soldiers
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REMAINS - doubt which contrast with the definite action that follows

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“Possibly armed, probably not”

  • the speaker can’t get the memory out of his mind . He is tormented by thought of the man, and wondering whether he was armed or not. If not then he has killed an innocent man
  • he feels guilty
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REMAINS - grotesque exaggerated imagery when he kills the man

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“ I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side”

  • repetition of “I see” emphasises the visual horror of the scene
  • metaphor
  • alliteration of “r” and onomatopoeic verb “rips” recreates the sound of a rip to make the scene mor realistic and gruesome
  • exaggerated image - saying he can see strait through the bullet holes
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REMAINS - he thinks that once he’s home he’ll forget the horrors

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“The I’m home on leave. But I blink”

  • short simple sentence and suddenness hints that the speaker could be confused and fearful
  • the stanza ends in enjambment - the horror is still there when the next line starts
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REMAINS - form

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Use of Free verse and enjambement

• poem seems disjointed and broken up, perhaps reflecting the speaker’s state of mind.

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