Poetry Anthology Flashcards
Ozymandias - structure
Mix of sonnet form showing power gives ways to new power
Ozymandias - statue
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
Ozymandias - writing on the statue
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
Ozymandias - desert
boundless and bare, The lone and level sand stretch far away
Ozymandias - negative description
wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Ozymandias - ‘boundless and bare’
Alliteration emphasising emptiness
London - structure
controlled but with enjambment contrasting the controlled city but not nature
London - street and river
wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow
London - trapped mind
The mind-forged manacles I hear
London - corruption
Every black’ning church appalls […] Runs in blood down palace walls
London - young ones
How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear
Prelude - structure
One long verse with enjambment left readers breathless, creating a sense of overwhelmed.
Prelude - peak
a huge peak, black and huge
Prelude - action
It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
Prelude - dark side of nature
no pleasant image of trees, Of sea or sky. no colours of green fields
Prelude - fear
With trembling oars I turned, And through the silent water stole my way
My Last Duchess - structure
uncontrolled stanza showing how the Duke is unable to control his emotions and his wife
My Last Duchess - metaphor
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall
My Last Duchess - his power
I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.
My Last Duchess - ocean
Neptune, though taming a sea-horse
My Last Duchess - ‘Neptune taming a sea-horse’
Reflecting how the Duke can’t control nature and women
Light Brigade - structure
Ballad form telling a story or teaching a lesson
Light Brigade - Into ….
Into the valley of Death. Into the mouth of Hell
Light Brigade - ‘valley of death’
Bliblical reference to highlight suffering and God couldn’t save them
Light Brigade - anaphora
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die
Light Brigade - Dactylic Diameter
Mirrors the hoofbeats of horses. Take so much effort to fully appreciate the soldiers
Light Brigade - soldiers’ glory
When can their glory fade? […] Honour the charge they made!
Light Brigade - sibilance
Storm’d at with shot and shell
Exposure - structure
stanza structured in same way mirroring the emotional rollercoaster soldiers experience everyday
Exposure - personification
in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
Exposure - bullets
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
Exposure - ghosts
Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires
Exposure - Pale flakes …
Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
Storm on the Island - structure
Blank verse = iambic pentameter with no rhyme, contrasting uncontrolled conflict, as he infuses tradition of English poetry with Irish ancestry
Storm on the Island - we are …
we are prepared: we built our house squat
Storm on the island - leaves …
leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale
Storm on the Island - oxymoron
You might think sea is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
Storm on the Island - simile and juxtaposition
The very windows, spits like a tame cat Turned savage
Bayonet Charge - structure
Many similes to try to make the horror easier to understand
Bayonet Charge - tear
The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
Bayonet Charge - personification
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Bayonet Charge - symbolism of nature
Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
Bayonet Charge - ‘hare’
representing nature, being one of the victims of the war
Bayonet Charge - patriotism
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
Remains - structure
Combining domestic and military language to show his trauma happening everyday
Remains - violence
I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side
Remains - questioning himself
Probably armed, possibly not
Remains - taking responsibility
His bloody life in my bloody hands
Remains - caesura
Then I’m home on leave. But I blink
Poppies - structure
chaotic, uncontrolled (Free verse) to reflect the chaotic impact of conflict
Poppies - metaphor
spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias
Poppies - ‘spasms of paper red’
Highlight pain and suffering. Colour connotation reflect her fear
Poppies - bird and dove
released a song bird from its cage. Later a single dove flew from.
Poppies - clothings
busy making tucks, darts […] without reinforcements of scarf
Poppies - I resisted …
I resisted the impulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair
War Photographer - structure
controlled stanza and rhyme scheme, reflect the society remains normal whilst with chaotic conflict outside
War Photographer - military
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
War Photographer - disrupt innocence
fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children
War Photographer - readers …
reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between bath and pre-lunch beer
War Photographer - photo developing
A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost
Tissue - structure
Enjambment and Free verse to reflect the lack of control
Tissue - sun …
Sun shines through their borderlines
Tissue - architect
An architect could use all this […] and never wish to build again with brick
Tissue - living tissue
trace a grand design with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last
The Emigree - structure
Disorganised with enjambment and free verse, reflecting chaos in her home town
The Emigree - childhood
I left as a child, but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
The Emigree - motif
sunlight: positivity about her home / life
The Emigree - others
I am branded by an impression of sunlight
The Emigree - childhood language
That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar
The Emigree - personification
My city takes me dancing through the city of walls
Checking Out Me History - structure
Lack of punctuation makes readers hard to understand the poem, reflect some of the history being left out
Checking Out Me History - metaphor
Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind to me own identity
Checking Out Me History - History figures
Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu
Checking Out me History - Shaka de great Zulu
influencial military leader of Zulu Kingdom, was obsessed with power later on
Checking Out Me History - Toussaint
Toussaint de thron to de French Toussaint de beacon of de Haitian Revolution
Checking Out Me History - himself
now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity
Kamikaze - structure
Controlled stanza but free verse, contrast reflects conflict between himself and national duty
Kamikaze - one-way
full of power incantations and enought fuel for a one-way journey into history
Kamikaze - ‘incantations’
spell / charm: being brainwashed
Kamikaze - fish metaphor
Once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
Kamikaze - internal battle
pearl-grey pebbles to see whose withstood longest
Kamikaze - metaphorically died
he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
