Poetry themes and quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias key theme
Human power is meaningless compared to nature and time.
Ozymandias quotes
“Lone and level sands”
“Sneer of cold command”
“That colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
“Look on me works and despair”
London key theme
Suffering due to the abuse of power is never ending. It will remain until people revolt.
London quotes
“I wander through each chartered street”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
“MInd-forged manacles I hear”
Extract from the prelude key theme
The arrogance of human assumption of power when nature is superior
Extract from the prelude quotes
“It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”
“Huge and mighty forms that do not live like men”
“Led by her”
My last duchess key theme
His power has led to a paranoia. He controls others because he cant control himself.
My last duchess quotes
“She had a heart too soon made glad”
“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together”
“Thats my last duchess painted on the wall”
The charge of the light brigade key themes
The brutality and chaos of war, and how it is glorified.
Charge of the light brigade quotes
“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred”
“When can their glory fade?”
“In their honor and glory”
Exposure key themes
Nature is the strongest enemy. The psychological effect of war.
Exposure quotes
“mad gusts tugging on the wire like twitching agonies”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“Merciless iced east winds that knife us”
Storm on the island key themes
Natures danger and violence. Also presents isolation as a fear.
Storm on the island quotes
“Branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”
“We build our houses squat”
Bayonet charge key themes
The reality of war. Dehumanisation of soldiers.
Bayonet charge quotes
“Listening between the footfalls for the reason of his still running”
“Cold clockwork”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
Remains key themes
The psychological trauma of war
Remains quotes
“On another occasion we get sent out”
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
“Probably armed, possibly not”
Poppies themes
The grief that comes with memory(for the mother). She is also a victim of conflict.
Poppies quotes
“The world overflowing like a treausure chest”
“I released a songbird from its cage”
“All of my words turned into felt, slowly melting”
War photographer themes
A sense of duty not being fulfilled. Internal conflict.
War photographer quotes
“His hands didnt tremble then but do now”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”
“Readers eyes prick with tears between baths and pre-lunch beers”
Tissue key themes
The futility of human power and possessions
Tissue quotes
“credit cards might run our lives like paper kites”
“A grand design with living tissue”
“Paper thinned to be transparent turned into your skin”
Emigree key themes
Child innocence and nostalgia overlooking the war torn aspect of the country
Emigree quotes
“It may be at war but i am branded with an image of sunlight”
“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
“They accuse my of being dark in their free city”
Checkin out me history key themes
Eurocentric brainwashing. He lost his childhood to the teaching of negative black history.
Checkin out me history quotes
“Bandage up me eye with my own history”
“de cow who jump over de moon”
“Now i carvin out me own history”
Kamikaze key themes
Internal conflict, and conflict between expectations and his reality. Nature is the answer to his problems.
Kamikaze quotes
“a shaven head full of powerful incantations”
“Which had been the better way to die”
“A huge flag waved one way then the other in a figure of eight”
“Gradually we too learned to be slient”
