Quote Analysis Flashcards
(LONDON)Analyze ‘ Marks of weakness, marks of woe’
The line is weak in its syllable count compared to the previous line. Black weakens the line to reflect the weakness of people suffering.
(LONDON)Analyze ‘Near where the chartered Thames does flow’
A charter is a document issued by the government political officials that granted rights and privileges.You can see here that a river cant be controlled by a passing of a law, so he is trying to say the causes of suffering is caused by the misuse of power .
(LONDON)Analyze ‘Mind-forged Manacles I hear’
Blake is trying to say Mans lack of freedom is ‘Mind forged(cuffed) so controlled and trapped by Authority
(EXTRACT FROM THE PRELUDE) Analyze’It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’
Wordsworth uses an oxymoron to show how he found his environment intimidating yet beautiful. It is so grand that he feels as if he is trespassing on perhaps nature’s secrets
(EXTRACT FROM THE PRELUDE) Analyze ‘Huge peak, black and huge’
Gothic Atmosphere, the word ‘huge’ is repeated for emphasis, the constants are strong with plosive b’s to suggest heaviness and dominance.
(EXTRACT FROM THE PRELUDE) Repetition of ‘no’
The use of the word ‘no’ makes us very aware that the fact that the poet realizes that there so much he doesn’t ‘no.’ It’s like the pride he has, has vanished he only can explain things he doesn’t know
(MY LAST DUCHESS) Analyze ‘my last duchess’
Repetitive pronoun ‘my’ repeated throughout the poem to show how the duke is possessive, he is self obsessed and it’s all about him and also believes his wife belonged to him. He see’s her as a object owned. He is showing his power over his Duchess.
(MY LAST DUCHESS) Analyze ‘Fro’ Pandolf’s’
Used to show how vain the duke is. ‘Fra’ means brother suggesting that the artist was monk. So this is suggesting that the picture was painted by a monk to make it clear that the Artist was not romantically involved with the duchess. So that doesn’t prove Duchess face whilst painting the picture
(MY LAST DUCHESS) Analyze ‘Her looks went everywhere’
He is paranoid and insecure, he thinks it means something. This presents the Duke as being weak.
(THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE) Analyze ‘thundered, shattered, sundered, blundered.’
Drum like beat which echos the sound of horses and also all of these words are used because ‘ered’ sound has a phonetic similarity to ‘errd’ which means to do something wrong. So there is a reminder that their was a mistake made
(EXPOSURE) Analyze ‘Merciless iced east winds that knife us’
Personification of the weather as ‘merciless’ and attacking them but really the soldiers should be fighting this emphasizes the atmosphere and the weather.
(EXPOSURE) Analyze ‘But nothing happens’
Repeated throughout the Poem to describe and exaggerate the bordem of the soldiers which shows the key message.
(EXPOSURE) Analyze’ For love of good seems dying’
Soldiers are losing hope to their patriotic side of them and it is dehumanizing them so even religion seems pointless.
(EXPOSURE) Analyze ‘Is it what we are dying’
Rhetorical question shows confusion of the soldiers. Conditions are so bad that they can no longer tell whats normal anymore.
(STORM OF THE ISLAND) Analyze ‘Strafes, Bombarded’
The use of war language to describe a storm itself is a metaphor for the violent political troubles that Ireland have experienced
(STORM OF THE ISLAND) Analyze ‘You know what i mean’
The writer uses everyday language which contrasts between the language of power and the language of everyday life which seems oxymoronic which is used to emphasis that this is everyday life for the writer
