Power and Conflict Poetry Flashcards
a pair of stone legs that are somehow still standing in the middle of the desert. (Ozymandias)
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Most powerful human is beaten by nature (Ozymandias)
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
personification of his pride and almost dissaproval (Ozymandias)
“sneer of cold command”
ruler of the gods (Ozymandias)
“king of kings”
semantic field of wreck and destruction (Ozymandias)
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Alliterative ‘W’ which gives negative effect (London)
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
abstract control has become concreted in society (London)
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
young working kids that end up dyeing young (London)
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
links with happiness and death (London)
“plagues the marriage hearse”
talks about being on a date on a summer evening (The Prelude)
“One summer evening (led by her)”
nature shows pure beauty but also power (The Prelude)
“troubled pleasure”
repetition of huge to emphasise height (The Prelude)
“a huge peak, black and huge”
aggressive sexual language (The Prelude)
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
narrator is feeling alone and depressed (The Prelude)
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank
desertion”
shows control man and society have over nature (London)
“I wander through each chartered street”
Approaching death (The Charge Of The Light Brigade)
“valley of death”
Soldiers jobs are to go and fight and die (The Charge Of The Light Brigade)
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
Mouth of death (The Charge Of The Light Brigade)
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
Someone made a mistake (The Charge Of The Light Brigade)
“someone had blunder’d”
Their wise army (The Charge Of The Light Brigade)
“Noble six hundred”
