Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Who’s story? why
A
‘Traveller’
2
Q
From where? why
A
‘an antique land’, out dated, forgotten
3
Q
What is it? why
A
‘two vast, trunkless legs’, forgotten, crumbled, diminished
4
Q
enhance
A
‘desert’, ‘sand’
5
Q
Enhance
A
‘half sunk and shattered visage’, iambic pentameter, dilapidated
6
Q
SWITCH IN MOOD
A
‘sneer of cold command’, power hungry, delusional
7
Q
irony enhance
A
‘tell its sculptor that’, unknowing, forgotten despite pride
8
Q
irony enhance +2
A
‘Pedestal’, grand
‘king of kings’, bible reference, arrogance, power conflict direct reference
9
Q
Irony enhance +3
A
‘decay’ ‘wreck’ ‘boundless and bare’ repetition, sematic field
10
Q
juxtaposes idea of power
A
‘lone and leve’ ;sands stretch far away’ cyclical structure, empty, forgotten
