Quotes from poems Flashcards
Ozymandias statue quote
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Ozymandias structure
volta structure, first 8 about his appearance, last 4 about pedestal
ephemeral
allegory
what does Ozymandias look like quote
Sneer of cold command
Ozymandias context
Shelly was a romantic poet
Ozymandias king quote
king of kings
Storm on the island method
Heany uses consonance, alliteration, and other sounds to create a noisy recreation of the wind and rain thrashing the bare island.
Storm on the island context
Heany Lived when the IRA was at its most horrible time so it depicts how his life was like. Such as living and not knowing if you will be safe.
Storm on the island cat quote
Spits like a tame cat Turned savage
Storm on the island nature quote
listen to the thing you fear, forgetting that it pummels your house too
Prelude context
Wordsworth’s prelude explores his childhood thoughts and the ways in which he has changed and grown over time
prelude structure
no stanzas
exposure context
Owen talks about how his experience in the war was and how he feared nature and the enemy
exposure structure
The poem is structured as a series of eight stanzas of five lines
last line shorter to disrupt rhythm flow
Ozymandias decay quote
decay of that colassal wreck
Storm in the island structure
use of loose iambic pentameter throughout Poem
