Power And Conflict Poetry Flashcards
Ozymandias key ideas
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
-human power is temporary
-power can corrupt people
-power of few causes suffering of many
-nature is more powerful than human
Ozymandias quotes
-“half sunk a shattered visage lies”
-“frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
-“pedestal”
-“My name is Ozymandias king of kings”
-“look on my works ye mighty and despair”
-“nothing besides remains”
-“round the decay of that colossal wreck”
-“boundless and bare”
London key ideas
-William Blake
-human power is transient
-power corrupts
-power of few causes suffering of many
-danger of powerful institutions
London quotes
-“chartered Thames”
-“in every face I meet, marks of weakness marks of woe”
-“mind forged manacles”
-“every black’ning church appalls”
-“runs in blood down palace walls”
-“new born infants tear”
Ozymandias methods
-Shelley subverts the rhyming scheme= reflects diminishing nature of human power
-“pedestal” raised above society
-“king of kings” =jesus illusion and god complex
-irony and hubris- short sentences at end- reinforce temporary nature of power
London methods
-women stuck in cycle by men in power
-set rhyming scheme= strong hold power and corruption holds on London
-title=centre of leadership and influence
-“manacles”= restricted from full potential, those in charge must cut chains
The prelude key ideas
-William Wordsworth
-boyish-rebellion-freedom
-sublime experience
-tries to return to natures comfort but it’s gone
-haunted by own insignificance
-human power is transient
-insignificance/weakness of humans
-power of nature
-poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
The prelude quotes
-(led by her)
-I unloosed her chain
-it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
-a huge peak black and huge
-up reared its head
-growing still/towered up
-purpose of its own/measured motion like a living thing
-with trembling oars I turned
-blank desertion, no familiar shapes
-but huge and mighty forms
The prelude methods
-no set structure=freeverse so nature is freedom
-semantic pattern of nature as nurturing but small
-imagery of rebellion
-personification of mountain
-power of imagination-created fear and awakened great poet
Exposure key ideas
-nothing glorious about war
-war is violent and cruel even when no action
-nature is just as danger as human conflict
-Wilfred Owen
Exposure key quotes
-in the merciless iced east winds that knive us=personification+violent imagery
-but nothing happens=repitition
-far off like a dull rumour of some other war
-the poignant misery of dawn begins to grow
-dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
-is it that we are dying?=hypothermia is hidden killer
-our ghosts drag home=metaphor for isolation and sacrifice
-on us the doors are closed. We turn back to our dying
-for love of god seems dying
Exposure methods
-repetition of final lines=futility of war
-set structure=regime and structure of war
-wind at start to frost at end shows natures power and cruelty progression
Storm on the Island key ideas
-Seamus Heaney
-nature as a powerful friend/foe
-humanity’s weakness in face of natures violence
-human resilience is also a powerful force
-natures punishments for human conflict (the Irish troubles)
Storm on the Island quotes
-we are prepared
-wizened earth
-listen to the things you fear/huge nothing that we fear=contrasts mellow tone of poem, nothing can prevent storm just listen and wait
-pummels / exploding comfortably /bombarded by the empty air
-spits like a tame cat turned savage
Storm on the island methods
-title=stormont reflects the Irish troubles
-repetition of fear contrast the mellow tone, nothing can prevent the storm just wait and listen
-one stanza=strength and unity
-free verse=casual style and natures power over human regime
-pattern of plosive sounds
