Poetry Anthology Flashcards
Quote from Ozymandias
Symbolises the impermanence of human power and achievements
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Quote from London
Link to war, hopeless - unfortunate
“The hapless soldiers sigh”
Quote from The Prelude
Emphasises scale of nature
“Huge peak, black and huge”
Quote from My Last Duchess
Showing more power; Euphemism
‘I gave commands; then all smiles stopped’
Quote from The Charge of the Light Brigade
Paints a dramatic picture of soldiers knowingly riding into extreme peril
“Into the valley of the death rode the six hundred”
Quote from Exposure
This conveys, how war was represented, their old self is gone
“Pause over half-known faces”
Quote from Storm on the Island and analysis
“Spits like a tamed cat turned savage”
-Even if we think we can control nature (tame it), it can still become wild and attack
Quote from Bayonet Charge
Considered as a representation of the effects of war on nature
“A yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
Quote from Remains
Justifying his actions
“Probably armed, possibly not”
Quote from Poppies
Shift in time - poem moves between past memories and the present moment
“The world overflowing like a treasure chest”
Quote from War Photographer
Caesura - to show respect to people
“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”
Quote from Tissue
Critical disdain
“Might fly our lives like paper kites”
Quote from The Emigrée
Nostalgia, happy, vivid, energized
My memory of it is sunlight clear’
Quote from Checking Out Me History
Forgetting what he had been taught, showing what he believed to be important
“I carving out me identity”
Quote from Kamikaze
Highlights honour and recognition of pilots - would never be forgotten
“A one way journey into history”
