Sir's Quotes (Ozymandias, London, Prelude, Last Dutchess) Flashcards

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Showing how the statue is brocken

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“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”

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Showing how it hasn’t stood up against time

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“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”

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Showing how tye ruler was mean

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“sneer of cold command”

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Showing hubris

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“King of kings”

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Showing how time has destroyed it

Alliteration

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“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”

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Showing how everything is controlled by the rich

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“I wander through each chartered street”

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Showing that there is missory in London

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“marks of weakness, marks of woe”

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Showing that the people are dragging themself down

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“The mind-forged manacles I hear”

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Showing how children and army members are the same

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“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”

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10
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Showing how even marriage is dampened by London

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“plagues the marriage hearse”

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Start of the Perlude

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“One summer evening (led by her)”

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Forshadowing the horror that would come

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“troubled pleasure”

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13
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Describing thr mountian

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“a huge peak, black and huge”

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Showing how the rower has complete controll

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“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”

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End of the Prelude

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“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”

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16
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Title of the poem

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“My last dutchess”

17
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Forshadowing of her death

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“half-flush that dies along her throat”

18
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Boasting about his name

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“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”

19
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Telling us of her death

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“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”

20
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Shwoing how he wanted to tame his wife

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“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse”