Try not to die of boredom/ commit suicide challenge Flashcards
Ozymandias themes
Impermanence of life
Abuse of power
Ozymandias quote on impermanence of life
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Ozymandias quote on the abuse of power
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings look on my works ye mighty and despair”
London themes
The abuse of power
Sacrifice of soldiers
Suffering
London quote on the abuse of power
‘Hapless solider sigh runs in blood down palace walls’
London quote on suffering
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
The prelude themes
Literally bullshit
Existential crisis = nihilism
The power of nature
Internal conflict
Prelude quote on internal conflict/ existential crisis
“There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion”
Prelude quote on the power of nature
“A huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instead”
My last duchess
Abuse of power
Desire for power
Last duchess quotes on abuse of power
“Half flush that dies along her throat”
“My gift of a 900 years old name”
“I gave commands” then all smiles stopped together
Last duchess quote on desire for power
“Notice Neptune though taming a sea horse”
Charge of the light brigade themes
Abuse of power
Patriotism and glory
Pointlessness of war
COTLB quote on abuse of power
“Into the valley of death rode the six hundred”
“Someone had blundered’
COTLB quote on patriotism and glory
“They that had fought so well”
“When can their glory fade?”
“Honour the Light Brigade”
COTLB structure
Stressed syllables at the start to show their excitement then stop to show their fear
COTLB quote on futility of their life and wat
“Theirs was to do and die”
Exposure themes
Conflict with nature
Futility of soldiers
Psychological trauma of war
Exposure quote on conflict with nature
“Worried by silence, sentries whisper”
“Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”
Exposure quote on sacrifice and futility of soldiers
“Sunk fires glazed with crusted dark red jewels”
Storm on the island
Conflict with nature
Futility of war
Power of God
Storm on the island quote on conflict with nature
“We just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly”
Storm on the island quote on futility of conflict and fear
“We are bombarded by the empty air strafe, it is a huge nothing we fear”
Storm on the island symbolism
The storm is symbolic of god’s power yet Heaney humbles it
Bayonet charge themes
The abuse of government power
Inner conflict
Exploitation of soldiers (dehumanisation into weapons of war)
Bayonet charge quotes on exploitation of soldiers
“Sweating like a molten iron flame from the centre of his chest”
Bayonet charge quotes on human’s affect on nature
“Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
Bayonet charge on the abuse of power and control from government
“In what cold clockwork of the starts was he the hand that pointed that second?”
Poppies theme
Inner conflict on what the effects of war are
Grief
Reminiscence/ nostalgia
Poppies quote on inner conflict about war
“Bandaged” “smoothed” “rounded” = verbs imply she is doing motherly things and feeling pride
“I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind”
Tissue themes
The futility of modern infrastructure and what our life is
Powerlessness of humans
Anti capitalism
What are the messages in tissue?
That all features of our identity are associated with tissue
Which is a fragile and fleeting object
But by ‘letting light shine through’ we take back our power and accept our mortality and impermanence
Quotes in tissue on acceptance and realisation of existence
“Turned into your skin” = embracing the impermanence of life and self determining your worth by your body and actions
The emigre themes
Identity
The emigrée quotes on identity
“Soon I shall have every coloured molecule with it” = city is split up into small sections to emphasise its importance to her
“Memory of it is sunlight clear”
The emigree quotes on native language
“The child’s vocabulary I carry like a hollow doll”
The emigre quotes on conflict
“They accuse me of being dark in their new city” = fear as the new city is seen as ‘free’ despite being more restrictive
Checking out me history themes
Suppression of identity
Conflict between cultures created by Europeans that aim to suppress celebration
Checking out me history quotes on taking back identity
“I carving out me identity”
Checking out me history quotes on exasperation
‘And de cow who jumped over de moon’
Kamikaze themes
Existential realisation on power of nature
Free will
Pride and honour
Kamikaze quote on existential realisation
“Tuna, dark Prince, muscular, dangerous”
Nature is the most truly powerful force, has an existential crisis
Kamikaze quote on the beauty of nature
“But cairns of pearl grey”
