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Power Poetry Flashcards

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Ozymandias

Percy shelley

sonnet

A

The power of nature and time over the power of humans

based on Paroh Rameses II

A03 - romantic poet, against human absolute power, influenced by french revolution and anti-monarchy

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Ozymandias

I met a traveller
from an antique land

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distancing themself, detached narrative, degrades legacy
superficial, no purpose, forgotten, contrasts modern day leaderships

A03 - wants to forget dictatorships and military leadership like in England 1818

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Ozymandias

wrinkled lip and
sneer of cold command

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disgust for subjects - thinks he’s superior, aging - subject to time
cruel, apathetic tyrant, alliteration

A03 - anti-military

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Ozymandias

The hand that mocked them
and the heart that fed

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mistreatment, embarrassing , irony - gave them nothing - in complete control of peoples wellbeing
or the scuplture mocking him

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Ozymandias

Look on my works ye Mighty and despair

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Irony - time has wasted away
links to artist, celebrating their works and making them more powerful then Ozymandias

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Ozymandias

decay of the
colossal wreck

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abandoned wasteland, continous disease +rot - human falibility, time has more power,

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London

William Blake

Dramatic monalogue

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Power of people
London is greedy and corrupted - polluted and exploited

Blake - radical of his time, equality and libertarianism

A03 - romanticism, industrial revolution

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London

I
wander
through each charted street

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1st person - personal attachment
aimless/casual, freedom - juxtaposes chartered
owned/controlled by wealthy - repetition

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London

The mind-forged manacles I hear

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damadging mental health - insecurity
oppresion, imprisoned, poverty in inesacpable, internalised

metaphor

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London

Every blak’ning church appalls

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pollution and corruption - grim representation
human appropriation of faith to control the masses

A03 - christian but believes organised faith is corrupt

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London

Youthful harlot’s
curse

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distressed by conditions of women - criticism of patriarchy
didn’t choose this life - generational poverty, sinnful conditions

Oxymoron - lamenting loss of innocence

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London

plagues the
marriage hearse

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contagious disease and illness
oxymoron new beginings vs death

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The prelude

Semi - autobiographical epic poem

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Overwhelming, uncomprendable power of nature

A03 - pantheistic views, adolence and puberty, romanticism

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The prelude

One summer evening
(led by her)

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rural, comfortable, peaceful - semantic feild/pathetic fallacy
powerless, amibigous figure - nature or desire

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Prelude

like a swan

simile

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nature controlling him - seems calm, confident but acutally panicked

Volta

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Prelude

purpose of it’s own

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personification - mountain in control - fearful, dominating

17
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prelude

call it solitude

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deppression, insignificance, mental health, extreme loneliness

18
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prelude

a trouble to my dreams

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regret - nature impacts him, transcending mankind
humbiling and haunting

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My Last duchess

Robery Browning

Dramatic monologue

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Power of people
Possessive duke who kills his wife

A03 - based on the duke of ferrera, italian renaissence, criticism of society and political message of upper classes

20
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MLD

my
last
duchess painted on the wall

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possessive, controlling
disposable, disregard, sinister, ambigous, ominous
unnamed - objectified

21
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MLD

her husbands presence only

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dominating, paranoid, expects her jife purpose to be pleasing him

22
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MLD

The bough of cherries some officious fool

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wants his status to be more important, materialism - doesn’t value natures beauty and pleasures, reliant on controlling women to feel powerful, finds he liking other things offensive

23
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MLD

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

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now owned by duke, losing legal rights, arrogance, boasting

24
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MLD

Notice Neptune

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presents himself as god like - exesscive hubris and pride,

alliteration

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