Poetry Power And Conflict Flashcards
Ozymandias
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Who: a travaller, poetic persona, ozymandius, sculptor
What: a traveller telling his story
Where: a dessert of some kind
When: ancient egypt
Why: to show no matter how powerful you are it cant last forever
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
Sounds like an old travellers tale with the word antique hooking the reader
“Whose frowns and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
He is exhibiting his power with arrogance even without his presence.
“Ozymandius, king of kings”
He is almighty so much so that every king is bellow him, a statement that also has religious connotations as well as being a hyperbole proving his arrogance
“Nothing besides remains”
The almighty “king of kings” is now just an acient ruined statue
London rhythm
Abab
Cdcd
Efef
Ghgh
“Near the chartered thames does flow”
Controlled by the rich also the busiest place.
“Cry” “voice in every ban” “manacles i hear” “blood” “tear and blights with plagues”
Strong semantic field of suffering poor health poor In general and being ill
The prelude
5 ws
Who: poetic persona, personified nature, boat
What: he goes sailing sees a huge black peak and goes home to isolation
When: night
Where: a lake
Why: to show that for every action there is a bigger reaction.
Simile of the boat in prelude
Swan
Repetition of the peak
“A huge peak, black and huge”
What does the cesura that increaces towards the end of prelude show
The fragmented language and how the poetic persona is shaken up by what he just witnessed
