Power and conflict key quotes
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- Power and conflict- key quotes: Part 1
- Ozymandias
- 'boundless and bare.'
- Alliteration- emphasises that statue is forgotten.
- 'And on the pedestal these words appear.'
- Volta reflects how human structures can be destroyed or decay
- 'Mighty and despair.'
- Ironic- Oz tells other 'mighty' kings to admire his statue and despair. Shows effect of Capitalism, they should despair as power is only temporary.
- 'Lone and level.'
- Alliteration- creates idea that desert is vast, lonely and lasts longer than the statue.
- 'Colosal wreck.'
- Metaphor, emphasises that the statue is forgotten, as well as highlighting Oz's ego.
- 'Vast and trunkless legs of stone.'
- Shows the statue is barely standing, suggesting is is waring away by the desert and by time.
- 'Sands stretch'
- Sibilance, shows nothing outlasts time.
- 'Wrinkled lip'
- Leaves out the rest of face, describing only mouth, reduces rulers potray.
- 'boundless and bare.'
- London
- 'chartered street.'
- Visual imagery. 'Chartered' repeats in next line.
- 'mind-forged manacles.'
- Metaphor, conveys entrapment in psychological chains created and maintained by ideas/beliefs. People and infants trapped in poverty.
- 'youthful harlot's curse... new-born infants tear.'
- Juxtaposition, corruption of innocence forces prostitutes into pregnancies.
- 'in every' x3
- Power of three- highlights universal effects of oppression- persuasive.
- 'plagues the marriage hearse.'
- Oxymoron-links death to marriage, when marriage is traditionally linked as a function of having children.
- 'Black'ning church appalls.'
- Shows the church is corrupt. Links to 'runs in blood down palace walls.' as both show colours of the French Revolution
- 'Soldier's sigh.'
- Sibilence
- 'chartered street.'
- The Prelude
- '(led by her)'
- Unclear who 'her' is. In an earlier part of poem, suggests nature is personified.
- 'A little boat tied to a willow tree.'
- Happy tone, idyllic. repetition of 'L' sound makes poem flow like a boat on water. Enjambment gives effect of easy flow of memories
- 'Troubled pleasure.'
- Oxymoron, hints at narrators guilt.
- 'elfin pinnace.'
- Metaphor of a fairy boat creating effect of a magical scene. Otherworldly, but not threatening.
- 'The horizon's bound, a huge black peak, black and huge.'
- Contrast from magical tone to now a more threatening one.
- 'Water like a swan.'
- Simile- bird is graceful and powerful, in control. Just as narrator feels in his boat.
- 'Trembling.'
- Present participle- narrator is scared.
- 'The horizon's utmost boundary; far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky.'
- Emptiness contrasts with 'huge peak' line as makes appearance of mountain more shocking.
- '(led by her)'
- My Last Duchess
- 'Duchess painted on the wall.'
- Presents the Duchess as artwork.
- 'Then all smiles stopped together.'
- Duchess is dead?
- 'piece of wonder.'
- Presents the Duchess' beauty
- 'She thanked men,- good! but thanked/ Somehow - I know not how- as if she ranked.'
- Caesura and Enjambment. Conveys the broken relationship between the narrator and the Duchess. Iambic Pentameter.
- 'Looking as if she were alive.'
- Prefers painting over real thing as he has control over painting.
- 'You disgust me; here you miss or there you exceed the mark.'
- Disgusted that the Duchess isn't perfect.
- 'Duchess painted on the wall.'
- Exposure
- 'Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.'
- Imagery- Jesus said ' you will hear of wars and rumours of wars.' Also language suggests that the soldiers find their state unreal; they barely believe in their duty any more.
- 'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.'
- Sibilance creates ominous sound, suggests bullets make a soft sound, reducing their threat in comparison to the army.
- 'Flowing flakes that flock.'
- Alliteration of 'f' consonant cluster, is a discordant (lacks harmony) and is disruptive to the line opposite 'flowing.
- 'Merciless iced east.'
- Sibilance creates a hissing effect, suggesting that the biting wind is attacking the soldiers.
- 'Our brains ache.'
- Collective personal pronoun 'our' shows this experience was shared by most soldiers on the frontline.
- 'But nothing happens.'
- Structure-refrain-like repetition emphasises the monotony the soldiers are living through. It is used again in the final line of the final stanza- anti climactic. Soldiers fight or flight.
- 'Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp.'
- Language: short vowel sounds create a pinching tone as the soldiers are de-humanised by being presented as pieces rather than as whole humans.
- 'All their eyes are ice.
- Imagery- Metaphor conveys the loss of emotion in the soldiers frozen death-like state.
- 'Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.'
- Storm on the Island
- 'We build our houses squat.'
- present tense creates immediacy. First person plural pronoun 'we' suggests narrator is a part of a community.
- 'Nor are there trees which might prove company
- Personification of nature, seen as seemingly friendly.
- 'Forgetting that it pummels your house too.'
- Direct Address- Creates a conversational tone, inviting the audience to reflect on their own experiences of storms.
- 'Exploding comfortably.'
- Oxymoron: 'exploding' - fear of stormy sea. 'comfortably' - feeling of safety.
- 'raise a tragic chorus.'
- Personification of nature develops a sense of danger/warning. 'chorus' in Greek classical tragedies were commentators on action. Implies as no trees to act as chorus to tragic storm, islanders are left isolated and alone to face and interpret the storm.
- 'It's a huge nothing that we fear.'
- Storm is visible. Nothing solid there contrasts with the line 'sink walls in rock'.
- 'It blows full blast.'
- Alliteration of 'b' emphasises the wind. Enjambment.
- 'Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate.'
- Form/structure: blank verse with irregular enjambment and caesurae mimics natural speech. Told in a direct/informal way.
- 'We build our houses squat.'
- Bayonet Charge
- 'green hedge, King, honour, human dignity, etcetera.'
- Asyndetic list. Tone of mockery of the King as he's expected to fight.
- 'In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nation.'
- Synchronised. Soldiers are part of the machinery of fate.
- 'numb as a smashed arm.'
- Visceral. Simile shows that it is difficult to carry a rifle as it is like a disabled arm, disabling him.
- 'Patriotic tear.'
- Personification: harsh reality vs patriotism.
- 'running-raw.'
- Alliteration- repeated 'r' sounds like bullets firing.
- 'Suddenly he awoke.'
- In media re- in the middle of the action. Third person.
- 'Was he the hand pointing that second?'
- Rhetorical question.
- 'Yellow hare that rolled like a flame.'
- Simile and colour imagery.
- 'Terror's touching.'
- Alliteration
- 'its mouth open.'
- Hare warning man- jolts him out of reflection.
- 'eyes standing out.'
- What dead people look like.
- 'green hedge, King, honour, human dignity, etcetera.'
- Remains
- 'On another occasion.'
- Voice- Starts mid story, speaking is relating to an event he and at least two others were involved in.
- 'Legs it up the road.'
- Language: strongly colloquial throughout, showing the soldiers English voice in a foreign land to emphasise his displacement.
- 'myself and somebody else and somebody else.'
- Insistence on all three being involved doesn't make him feel any less responsible.
- 'I see every round as it rips through his life.'
- Imagery: Metaphorical impact of the round bullets reflects the impact it had on the soldier.
- 'sort of inside out.'
- Language is euphemistic for the mans intestines being spilled by gunfire- shows speakers reluctance to face reality.
- 'tosses his guts back into his body. Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry.'
- Verbs 'tossed' and 'carted' imply desensitisation to violence and lack of respect for human life.
- 'And the drink and drugs won't flush him out.'
- Soldier is haunted by that memory despite attempts of self-medicate; hints at PTSD.
- 'some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land.'
- Sibilance combined with other consonants makes this jarring and slow to read, like the soldier constantly tripping over this memory on a loop.
- 'his bloody life in my bloody hands.'
- 'bloody' used as a curse as well as literally showing the soldier's anger that he has to live with this, as well as revealing his clear sense of responsibility.
- 'he's here in my head when I close my eyes.'
- Theme: tormenting power of a single moment can lead to a lifetime of trauma and feeling of responsibility: PTSD?
- 'On another occasion.'
- Ozymandias
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