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OZYMANDIAS

“I met…”

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“I met a traveller from an antique land.”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Boundless…”

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“Boundless and bare.”

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OZYMANDIAS

“King…”

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“King of kings.”

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OZYMANDIAS

“A sneer…”

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“A sneer of cold command.”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Nothing beside…”

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“Nothing beside remains.”

-short sentence

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LONDON

“Marks of…”

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“Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”

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LONDON

“Every black…”

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“Every black’ning church.”

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LONDON

“Runs…”

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“Runs in blood down palace walls.”

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LONDON

“Mind-…”

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“Mind-forged manacles.”

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LONDON

“How the…”

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“How the chimney sweeper’s cry.”

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THE PRELUDE

“Led…”

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“Led by her.”

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THE PRELUDE

“Act of…”

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“Act of stealth and troubled pleasure.”

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THE PRELUDE

“Huge…”

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“Huge peak, black and huge.”

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THE PRELUDE

“Strode…”

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“Strode after me.”

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THE PRELUDE

“No pleasant…”

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“No pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields.”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“That’s…”

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“That’s my last duchess.”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“None puts by…”

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“None puts by the curtain I have drawn for you.”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“Her looks…”

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“Her looks went everywhere.”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“She thanked…”

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“She thanked men good.”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“I gave…”

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“I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

“Into the…”

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“Into the valley of death.”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

“Theirs not…”

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“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”

-sent to do one job

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

“Cannon to…”

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“Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them.”

-surrounded

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

“Honour…”

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“Honour the charge they made! Honour the light brigade.”

-ends poem with positive message to celebrate the soldiers’s efforts rather than the mistakes made.

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

“All the…”

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“All the world wonder’d.”

-could mean they admired their bravery, or why they were sent on the charge

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EXPOSURE

“Our brains…”

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“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced winds that knive us.”

-personification shows that nature is the enemy

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EXPOSURE

“Black with…”

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“Black with snow.”

  • snow usually white, symbolising purity
  • black connotations of evil
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EXPOSURE

“For love…”

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“For love of God seems dying.”

-shocks reader at the time

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EXPOSURE

“But nothing…”

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“But nothing happens.”
(REPETITION)
-structure emphasises boredom

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EXPOSURE

“All their…”

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“All their eyes are ice.”

-overpowered by nature

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STORM ON THE ISLAND

“Exploding…”

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“Exploding comfortably.”

-oxymoron reflects how the narrator has made sense of the land, even if it does not make sense to us.

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STORM ON THE ISLAND

“Spits…”

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“Spits like a tamed cat turned savage.”

-familiar things become frightening during storm.

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STORM ON THE ISLAND

“Wind dives and…”

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“Wind dives and strafes invisibly.”

-Wind is metaphorically symbolised as a fighter plane attacking the island.

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STORM ON THE ISLAND

“It is a huge…”

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“It is a hUge nothing that we fear.”

  • Storm is invisible
  • Nothing can protect the islanders.
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STORM ON THE ISLAND

“This w…”

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“This wizened earth.”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Suddenly…”

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“Suddenly he awoke.”

  • confused, vulnerable
  • we are intrigued to know what happened before this
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BAYONET CHARGE

“Sweating like…”

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“Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest.”

-His patriotism had turned into fear and pain

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Crawled in…”

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“Crawled in a threshing circle.”

-vivid image of out-of-control movement suggesting that nature is affected by war

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Rolled…”

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“Rolled like a flame.”

-Simile emphasises the hair’s frantic movement and the dange the soldier is in.

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BAYONET CHARGE

“His terror’s…”

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“Is terror’s touchy dynamite.”

  • Soldier seems to have become a weapon
  • Driven purely by terror
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REMAINS

“All three of…”

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“All three of us open fire. three of a kind letting fly.”

-repetition of the collective pronoun shows that he believes it is their blame.

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REMAINS

“Sort of…”

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“Sort of inside out.”

  • childish description
  • speaker unable to process it
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REMAINS

“Dug in…”

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“Dug in behind enemy lines.”

-remains in his head

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REMAINS

“His bloody…”

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“His bloody life in my bloody hands.”

  • alternate meanings for bloody
  • reference to Macbeth
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REMAINS

“Probably…”

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“Probably armed, possibly not.”

  • repetition hints he is replaying the moment in his mind
  • troubled
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POPPIES

“All my words…”

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“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting.”

-her words are metaphorically melting, mirroring the breakdown in her emotions.

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POPPIES

“The world…”

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“The world overflowing like a treasure chest.”

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POPPIES

“My stomach…”

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“My stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats.”

-Nervousness

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POPPIES

“Steeled…”

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“Steeled the softening of my face.”

-alliteration shows she is trying to be brave and not show her emotions.

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POPPIES

“Hoping to hear…”

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“Hoping to hear your playground voice catching the wind.”

-alliteration emphasises the erge to hear her son

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“In his…”

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“In his darkroom he is finally alone.”

  • “darkroom”
  • adverb “finally”
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“Spools of…”

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“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“A hundred agonies in…”

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“A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six.”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“Blood stained…”

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“Blood stained into foreign dust.”

-lasting impact of war

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“The reader’s…”

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“The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers.”

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TISSUE

“Paper that lets…”

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“Paper that lets the light shine through.”

-light symbol of truth

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TISSUE

“Paper thinned…”

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“Paper thinned by age.”

  • paper represents old age
  • power is weakened over time.
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TISSUE

“Might fly…”

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“Might fly our lives like paper kites.”

-simile of freedom

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THE EMIGREE

“I am…”

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“I am branded by an impression of sunlight.”

  • the negative “branded” juxtaposes “sunlight”
  • branded also suggests her view is permanent, it can’t change
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THE EMIGREE

“They…”

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“They accuse me.”

-sounds menacing, and the repetition enforces the threat

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THE EMIGREE

“Time…”

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“Time rolls as tanks.”

-time is personified as the enemy, yet it doesn’t change the speaker’s memories.

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THE EMIGREE

“My shadow falls…”

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“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.”

-ends on a positive note, despite the threat of death, the city is still assosiated with sunlight

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THE EMIGREE

“That child’s…”

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“That child’s vocabulary I carried here.”

-the metaphor makes the vocabulary seem precious.

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KAMIKAZE

“A shaven head…”

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“A shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history.”

-Our attention is focused on the compound word, suggesting the pilot will not come back.

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KAMIKAZE

“The little fishing…”

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“The little fishing boats struck out like bunting on a green-blue transparent sea.”

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KAMIKAZE

“The dark shoals…”

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“The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swiveled towards the sun.”

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KAMIKAZE

“A tuna…”

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“A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”

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KAMIKAZE

“They treated him as…”

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“They treated him as if he no longer existed.”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Dem t…”

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“Dem tell me.”

  • repetition creates a sense of anger.
  • The pronoun “Dem” separates him from white people.
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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Bandage up…”

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“Bandage up me eye with me own identity.”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Blind me…”

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“Blind me to me own identity.”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Dem tell me what…”

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“Dem tell me what dem want to tell me.”

-White people controlling.

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Carving…”

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“Carving out me identity.”

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