Quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias
Sneer of cold command- the sculpture understood the arrogance of the ruler”
•“the Hand that mock’s them” perhaps the sculptor intende to make fun of ozymandias
•“my name is Ozymandias, king of kings”2- arrrogant and powerful he challenged rulers
Ozymandias power fading
•“The lone and level sands stretch far away”2- lone and level is alliteration emphasising the feeling of empty space in the surrounding desert . Stretch far away- the desert is vast an survives far longer than the broken statue emphasising the insignificance of th statue of ozymandias and highlighting that all power will fade
“Look of my works, ye Mighty , and despair!” “ye Might” is arrogant and powerful “2look”2 having a stressed syllable at the start of the line heighten Ozymandias tone of command. “despair!” Irony he tells other rulers to despair because of the size and glandular of his works but inn fact they should despair because their power is temporary and ultimately unimportant like his.
Form- sonnet with turning point on line 9 like a Petrarchan sonnet how’re doesn’t follow regular sonnet rhyme scheme perhaps reflecting the way human power and structures can be destroyed and get to people head clouding judgement . Uses iambic pentameter but is often disrtupted . The story is a second hand account which distances the reader further fro t he king
London
2 i wander through each chartered street”2 chartered means mapped out or legally defined this suggests that the whole cit is affected , or just one area especially if its known streets
“2nearwhere the chartered Thmes does flow”2- even powerful,l natural features like the river Thames are under human control and affected by th cities problems
“And mark in every face i meet, marks of weakness marks of woe”
“2every is repeated 5 times showing that everything is connected and are all sufffering
“In every infants cry of fear”2
the speaker hears various distressing noises - makes this seem like a vivid , helium experienc
“The mind -forged manacles I hear”
“The hapless soldiers sigh Runs in blood down palace walls”
“How the youthful harlots curse
Blasts the new-bron infants tear”
Form - dramatic monologue abab is unbroken and seems to echo relentless misery of the city
Who wrote London
William Blake
Who wrote ozymandias
Percy Shelly
Prelude
One summer evening (led by her) “•“The horizons bound , a huge peak, black and huge”- a mountain appears on the horizon it is darke rlanguage and more threatening
•”Upreared its head. I struck i struck again”- te mountain is personified as an ugly image contrasting to earlier where beautiful pastoral imags of nature were used “elfin” “swan”. “I struck ….” As the narrator rows away from the mountain , more and more of it comes into view. This means it seems like the mountain is getting bigger, and makes it sound like a nightmare
“and growing still in statue the grim shape”-similar annotations to previous quote
“2back to the covert of the willow tree”- he feels afraid and guilt and wants to hide away - alt iterparation is that covert is incognito he knows he shouldn’t have stole the boat but he id
“Were a trouble to my dreams”2- unsettling image- helps us to empathise with home huge contrast to tone and mood at startform- first person narrative - sounds personal and describes turning point on line 19 The use of blank verse(unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter) makes it sound serious and improv
“Small circles glittering idly in the moon”
“The horizons bound , a huge peak, black and huge”
“And measured motion like a living thing,strode after me. with removing oars I turned”
“Back to the covert of the willow tree”
Who wrote prelude
William Wordsworth
My last duchess
“thats my last duchess painted on the wall”- sounds as if he own the duchess herself, not just the picture of her plus suggests he has had multiple wives
“Frá Pandora by design”
“Her husbands presence only, closed the spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek:”**
** A heart-now shall I say? Too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere”**
“She thanked men, good! But thanked somehow - i know not how- as if she ranked
My nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift”**
“that piece of wonder , now:fra Pandora’s hands” - name of artist showing off
“She liked whate’er she looked on- metaphor as impossible to like everything he seems jealous this is a motive or him to exert power or was she looking at others as she thought they would treat her better
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”- the title of the duchess was given to her through marriage
“Who’d stoop to blame”-stoop is on lines 34,42 and 43 this shows how he thinks his wife is beneath him
“oh sir ,she smiled,no donut, whene’er I passed her: but who passed without Much the same smile?”2 interrogative more of a rhetorical bu shows he is jealous of her as she smiled the same at everyone
“This grew ; I gave commands; Then all the smiles stopped together”- the semi-colons act as a separator for a tripartite structure also this use ofejuambermnt creates dramatic effect and astern mod representing the power of the duke of Ferrara (alfonso d’este II
“I choose to never stoop”- this is a patriarchal misogynistic view as it is ultimately saying tat he wouldn’t stoop low to argue with a woman because they wont even understand , this shows the power of men over women in society
“Looking as if she were alive”2 rather omnious as it seems like he is viewing her as art implying she is a commodity rather than him viewing her sentimentally
”No just pretence// Of mine for dowry will be disallowed”- he is arranging his next marriage
Views on the duke tat he is insecure ad he sees her when I king things as a criticism to himself expects her to reserve her joy and smile for him
Quotes as of 23/05/23- to use mostly at be repeated rom above
“My”- possessive pronoun is repeat numerous time
”Will’t please you sit and look at her?I said Frá Pandolf my design”- egotistical showing off also commanding he is commanding in a question
“(Since none puts by The Curtain I have drawn for you but I)”- completely in control decides who looks at her- painting is a good reflects he treat the same
”Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er she looked on , and her looks went everywhere.”- stops line with full stop shows disgusted
**”My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
Then says ”With anybodys gift. Who’d stoop to blame. - sees her as inferior
”In speech-(which I have not)- to make your will”-lies just did a monologue
”This grew; gave commands; Then all the smiles stopped together”- agressive
Structure
Form- dramatic monologue written in imbsic pentameter , rhyming couplets sho dukes desire for control e.g doubt nd without name blame
NOTES
Dramtic monologue shows egotistical nature, doesn’t allow the voice of anyone else so a critics o him
He is perceived as completely in control
He lies about being able to do a speech he says he cant but previously just had a dramatic monologue - rather condescending(patronising)
Controlling
Who wrote ‘My Last Duchess’
Robert Browning
The charge of the light brigade
“All in the valley of death”- sound sinister - reader is warned right from the start that something bad is going t happen”
“Forward the light brigade!Charge for the guns! He said”we don’t kno w who he is but we get idea that he is important
”Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew//Some one had blunder’d:”
“Theirs not to make reply,// Theirs not to reason why,// Theirs but to do and die:into the valley of death “ firstly shows power of those in authority , the valley of death also biblical allusion vretess a grand sense of scale as well as foreshadowing death
”Cannon to the right of them,// Cannon to the left of them,// Cannon in front of them”
”Volley’d and thundered”
“Into the jaws of Death”
”Into the mouth of Hell”
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”- sibilants creates aural imagery of ammunition streaking through the air
“Honour the charge they made!//
Honour the light brigade//
Noble six hundred!”
Form- rhyming couplet s and triplets drive poem e.g “brigade” “dismay’d” but other parts are url Ed breaking the omentum which could mirror the horses falling and stumbling but could also mirror the sheer chaos of conflict
Repetition signifys impending doom and inevibility
What power could you talk about for charge of the light brigade
Power of authority and how that leads to catastrophic consequences(ink in context)
Who wrote charge of the light brigade
Alfred Tennyson
Exposure
“2our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”2
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
“2since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn”2
“All their eyes are ice”2- meataphor refers to the eyes of the Irving and the dead men - is a vivid description of how they’ve been overpowered by nature. It hints that the living men are no longer able to feel any emotion
Ye first person plural pronoun e.g “our” “we”2 “us “ which is a collective voice for the experience shared by soldiers across the war
The rare a lot of half rhymes which offer no comfort of satisfaction - the legumes are jagged like the reality of the men’s experience
Who wrote Exposure
Wilfred Owens
Storm on the island literal (exploring power of nature”
“We are prepared: we build our houses squat”- fearless, but does seem foreboding
“Forgetting that i pummels your house too” - the wind is portrayed as very violent and oppressive , personification
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”2- the storm is invisible. There is nothing solid . Thi s contrasts with the solid roc mentioned in tge second line of the poem
“Blast you know what i mean- leaves and branches”
Storm on the island metaphorical
“We are prepared:we build our houses squat”- this is ironic as many houses may have had conflicting religions so they are rent really prepared
“2Blast:you know what I mean - leaves and branches”2- could be a metaphor for bombings
“2Forgetting that it pummels your house too “2 punching = violence
“2strange, its is a huge nothing that we fear”2-may be suggesting the conflict is over nothing and that and slows sating that the Protestants (as Heaney was catholic) are noting and lower in life
