Power and conflict

Question 1

ozymandias quotes

Answer 1

“king of kings”
“nothing besides him remains”
“colossal wreck”
“half sunken visage lies”
“boundless and bare”

Question 2

how is power presented

Answer 2

power is presented as unstable and easily lost, creating a tone of mockery

nothing man makes is permanent.
speaker eventually understands that power is fleeting

Question 3

MY last Dutches

Answer 3

Browning portrays the corrupt power of the domestic tyrant, his arrogance, jealousy and ruthlessness

Question 4

quotes

Answer 4

“that’s my Dutches painted on the wall looking as if she were alive”
“none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you”
“spot of joy into the Dutches check”
“I gave commands and all smiles stopped”

Question 5

charge of the light brigade

Answer 5

endless and continuous suffering of soldiers, makes soldiers wonder the purpose of the unbearable pain.

Question 6

quotes

Answer 6

‘HALF A LEAGUE, half a league”
someone had blundered
into the valley of death
Jaws of death
mouth of hell

Question 7

exposure

Answer 7

the endless suffering of soldiers, Owen highlights the impacts and effects nature has on the poor soldiers. dreaming of home

Answer 8

our brains ache
personification: winds knife us
mad gusts
air that shudders with black snow

power of 3
war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy - futile weather is and end up dying in an unhonourable way

sudden successive flights of bullets passing overhead

but nothing happens cyclic structure poem ends up where it started