Power poetry Flashcards
basically everything that isn't war poetry
Checking out me history
(restrictive narrative)
‘dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’
Checking out me history
(black pride, history)
‘Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream’
Checking out me history
(hope)
‘but now I checking out me own history, I carving out me own identity’
Tissue
(transparency, hope)
‘Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things’
TIssue
(power in fragility)
‘Living tissue, raised a structure never meant to last’
Tissue
(conflict with restriction)
‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines’
Tissue
(perspective)
‘Turned into your skin’
Storm on the island
(battle, conflict)
‘We are prepared’
Storm on the Island
(hostility of nature)
‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘Exploding comfortably’
Storm on the Island
(power of politics)
‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’
Ozymandias
(dictator)
‘Sneer of cold command’
Ozymandias
(irony of human power)
‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
‘Nothing besides remains’
Ozymandias
(nature vs man)
‘Decay of colossal wreck’
London
(society)
‘Mind-forged manacles’
London
(revolution context)
‘The hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls.’
London
(hypocrisy of church)
‘Black’ning church appals’
the Prelude
(sublime)
‘growing still in stature the grim shape Towered between me and the stars’
the Prelude
(foreshadowing)
‘troubled pleasure’
the Prelude
(mans hubris)
‘Proud of his skill’
the Prelude
(big)
‘A huge peak, black and huge’
The Prelude
(nature transcends humanity)
‘Huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men’
My last duchess
(possession)
‘That’s my last duchess painted on the wall’
‘Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse’
My last duchess
(hypocrisy)
‘Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling’
My last duchess
(danger of power)
‘I gave commands then all smiles stopped together’
