Power Poetry Flashcards
Key quotes of the poems
Ozymandias
Percy shelley
sonnet
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
Ozymandias
I met a traveller
from an antique land
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
Ozymandias
wrinkled lip and
sneer of cold command
disgust for subjects - thinks he’s superior, aging - subject to time
cruel, apathetic tyrant, alliteration
A03 - anti-military
Ozymandias
The hand that mocked them
and the heart that fed
mistreatment, embarrassing , irony - gave them nothing - in complete control of peoples wellbeing
or the scuplture mocking him
Ozymandias
Look on my works ye Mighty and despair
Irony - time has wasted away
links to artist, celebrating their works and making them more powerful then Ozymandias
Ozymandias
decay of the
colossal wreck
abandoned wasteland, continous disease +rot - human falibility, time has more power,
London
William Blake
Dramatic monalogue
Power of people
London is greedy and corrupted - polluted and exploited
Blake - radical of his time, equality and libertarianism
A03 - romanticism, industrial revolution
London
I
wander
through each charted street
1st person - personal attachment
aimless/casual, freedom - juxtaposes chartered
owned/controlled by wealthy - repetition
London
The mind-forged manacles I hear
damadging mental health - insecurity
oppresion, imprisoned, poverty in inesacpable, internalised
metaphor
London
Every blak’ning church appalls
pollution and corruption - grim representation
human appropriation of faith to control the masses
A03 - christian but believes organised faith is corrupt
London
Youthful harlot’s
curse
distressed by conditions of women - criticism of patriarchy
didn’t choose this life - generational poverty, sinnful conditions
Oxymoron - lamenting loss of innocence
London
plagues the
marriage hearse
contagious disease and illness
oxymoron new beginings vs death
The prelude
Semi - autobiographical epic poem
Overwhelming, uncomprendable power of nature
A03 - pantheistic views, adolence and puberty, romanticism
The prelude
One summer evening
(led by her)
rural, comfortable, peaceful - semantic feild/pathetic fallacy
powerless, amibigous figure - nature or desire
Prelude
like a swan
simile
nature controlling him - seems calm, confident but acutally panicked
Volta
Prelude
purpose of it’s own
personification - mountain in control - fearful, dominating
prelude
call it solitude
deppression, insignificance, mental health, extreme loneliness
prelude
a trouble to my dreams
regret - nature impacts him, transcending mankind
humbiling and haunting
My Last duchess
Robery Browning
Dramatic monologue
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
MLD
my
last
duchess painted on the wall
possessive, controlling
disposable, disregard, sinister, ambigous, ominous
unnamed - objectified
MLD
her husbands presence only
dominating, paranoid, expects her jife purpose to be pleasing him
MLD
The bough of cherries some officious fool
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
MLD
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
now owned by duke, losing legal rights, arrogance, boasting
MLD
Notice Neptune
presents himself as god like - exesscive hubris and pride,
alliteration
