Sir's Quotes (Ozymandias, London, Prelude, Last Dutchess) Flashcards
Showing how the statue is brocken
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Showing how it hasn’t stood up against time
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Showing how tye ruler was mean
“sneer of cold command”
Showing hubris
“King of kings”
Showing how time has destroyed it
Alliteration
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Showing how everything is controlled by the rich
“I wander through each chartered street”
Showing that there is missory in London
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
Showing that the people are dragging themself down
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
Showing how children and army members are the same
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
Showing how even marriage is dampened by London
“plagues the marriage hearse”
Start of the Perlude
“One summer evening (led by her)”
Forshadowing the horror that would come
“troubled pleasure”
Describing thr mountian
“a huge peak, black and huge”
Showing how the rower has complete controll
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
End of the Prelude
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”