Power And Conflict Quotes Flashcards
Quotes from Ozymandias
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“Vast trunkless stone” - statue incomplete
“Lifeless” once dead no one remember
Quotes from tissue
Repetition of paper - draw attention have multiple purpose
Light shine - light imagery think fragile
With living tissue - shift to human life
Structure never meant to last - life is temporary
Rivers road railtracks - she’s free
Quotes from checking out me history
Dem tell me - repetition he not told
Blind me - metaphor not showing him identity
Cyclical structure
Enjambment - lots to say
I me - possessive pronouns proud
Caribbean accents proud of culture
Quotes from prelude
Led by her - power of the nature
Willow tree - nature imagery
Troubled pleasure - oxymoron of guilt
Huge mighty forms that’s do not like living men - nature
Sibilance sinister mood
Quotes from kamikaze
Blue translucent sea - nature imagery
Little fishing boats strung out like hunting - simile cover up pain of war
Safe - repetition mind set
Quotes from bayonet charge
Suddenly he awoke and was running- nightmare discomfort
Rolled like a flame - simile danger
Heavy his hot - h heavy breathing
Quotes from storm on the island
Exploding comfortably- oxymoron feeling of fear and safety
Bombarded - compare to war
Spits like a tame cat - simile frightening
Quotes from exposure
Merciless iced east wind that knives us - personified
Sudden successive - whistling of bullets flying sibilance
Flowing flakes - alliteration
Is that we are dying? Questions of death
Quotes from London
I wander” - first person
Every cry ever voice - repetition
Infants cry of fear - distressed
Marriage hearse - oxymoron happy marriage to death
Abab rhyme scheme
Quotes from my last dutches
My last duchess painted on the wall- owned her
The curtain I have drawn to you - he control who see her
I gave commands them all smiles stopped -controlling unfaithful and could have killed her
Quotes from remains
Possible armed possibly not - doubt follow
All three all three- repetition of quit and it wasn’t just him
His bloody life in my bloody hands- he feel responsible
Carted of into the back of the lorry - cold usual actions
Quotes from Poppys
Before - repetition of remembrance
Graze my nose - close to her son
Steeled and softening - trying to be brave
Released a song bird from its cage - her son leaving
Playground voice catching on the wind - school and army
Quotes from war photographer
To do what someone must - trying to help emotion
They do not care
Quotes from emigre
There was once a country - she lost
Sunlight clear - her original memory child like vocab
I am told - she refuse to believe
Bright filled paperwork - metaphor memories bright
There’s no way back - change in mood
Poems that link to identity
Poppies
Tissue
Checking out me history
Kamikaze
