Power & Conflict Quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias?
“Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
Alliteration ‘cold command’
Sneer = cruel Pharaoh Ramases on whom the poem was based on
London?
“And the hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls”
Context: the monarchy (palace walls) is squandering lives of soldiers by sending them to fight wars which can’t be won.
Extract from, The Prelude?
“Upreared it’s head”
Th mountain is personified.
Nature turns scary.
“A huge peak, black and huge”
My Last Duchess?
“This grew; I gave commands, Then all smiles stopped together.”
Caesura, showing the sudden death of the duchess.
‘I gave commands’ shows the power of the duke and how easy it was to dispose of his unfaithful duchess.
The Charge of the Light Brigade?
“…rode the six hundred”
Repeated at the end of each stanza (six)
Repetition to emphasise
Simple language because his audience was the public.
Exposure?
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
Onomatopoeia - the sibilance sounds like the wind.
The wind is personified.
Storm on the island?
“Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
Simile - the storm has turned savage.
STORMONT in Ireland is where there is a parliament building and lots of debates happened. The storm could be a metaphor for this.
Bayonet Charge?
“In raw-seamed hot khaki”
Shows the uncomfortableness of the situation.
He loses patriotism throughout the poem: “king, honour, human dignity etcetera”
Remains?
“End of story, except not really”
He is haunted by his actions even after the event
“And the drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
Poppies?
“Leaned against it like a wishbone”
Her son’s grave. Wishbones are fragile just like the mother is after her son in killed in conflict.
Shows her lack of power.
War Photographer?
“Of running children in a nightmare heat”
Children fleeing a bomb.
Tissue?
“Turned into your skin”
Last line
The poet uses tissue/paper as an extended metaphor for life.
“Paper thinned by age or touching” link to metaphor for life and Ozymandias.
The Emigrée?
“As time rolls its tanks”
Personification, link to war.
“Sunlight” repeated at the end of each stanza : shows her happy memories of her childhood city.
Checking Out Me History?
“Dem tell me”
Uses own dialect showing independence and identity.
Written in present tense so we can experience it with him, and see how it feels to not be taught about your own culture - only British.
Kamikaze?
“Green-blue translucent sea” - image of beauty.
“As though he no longer existed”
The father is shunned by society for not fulfilling his mission as a kamikaze pilot, and returning home.
