Poetry + Macbeth quotes and structure Flashcards
Mametz wood- structure
Written in tercets
Enjambment
Plain language
changing line lengh
no lasting rhyme
Mametz Wood- key quotes
“the china plate of a shoulder blade”
“like a wound working a foreign body”
“nesting machine guns”
“their skeletons paused mid- dance macabre”
Hawk Roosting- structure
Dramatic monologue
Lots of end stopped lines
Short, forceful sentances
Free verse
Written in quatrains- controlled
Hawk roosting- key quotes
“I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed”
“my feet are locked upon the rough bark”
“My manners are tearing off heads”
“The earths face upward for my inspection
Ozymandais- structure
Petrarchan Sonnet- self love
non sonnet rhyme scheme
Iambic pentameter
Volta at line 9
Enjanment only constant lines 12-13 about the desert
Ozymandais- key quotes
I met a traveler from an antique land”
“half sunk, a shattered visage lies” (sibilance) (caesura)
“My name is ozymandais, king of kings.”
” colossal wreck, boundless and bare” (oxymoron)
To autumn- structure
Ode
Iambic pentameter
Constant ABAB
Equal lined paragraphs
Morning to afternoon to evening metaphor
To aumtumn- quotes
“Conspiring with him how to load and bless”
“Thee sitting careless on a granary floor”
“Where are the songs of Spring? Aye where are they?”
“In a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
The soldier- quotes
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
“Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam”
“A pulse in the eternal mind”
“laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleless”
The soldier- structure
The soldier- Petrachan sonnet
Iambic pentameter
Octave and Sestet usually split
Constant rhyme scheme
Enjambment
Macbeth quotes
“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
“Blood will have blood.”
“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!” (just after killing banquo)
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player” (soliloquy)
“life is a tale, full of sound and fury, / signifying nothing
ambition
“Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’” (M)
“without the illness that should attend it”(LM)
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” (M)
“All causes shall give way. I am in blood” (M)
“Let me find him(macbeth), Fortune,
And more I beg not. “ (MD)
LM quotes
“the raven (messenger for duncans arrival) himself is hoarse”
“Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”
“What’s to be done?”
“Are you a man?”
“who would have the thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”
“All the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this hand”
Supernatural quotes
“Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more” (irony macbeth has already been made thane of cawdor by duncan)
“have we eaten on the insane root that takes reason prisoner” (personification) (foreshadowing)
“by the pricking of my thumbs, something evil this way comes” (witches to macbeth)
“security is mortals cheifest enemy”
“She is troubled with thick-coming fancies”(LM)
