Poetry
- Created by: AAKuye
- Created on: 02-05-17 13:24
War Photographer - Language
- "all flesh is grass" --> metaphor/Religious imagery - suggests meaningless of life
- suggests scale of death and how fragile life is - funeral= sense of ceremony, he owes it to them
- "his hands, which did not tremble then" --> irony - calm in face of danger (PTSD)
- "spools of suffering set out in orderly rows" --> silibance - emphasises dark nature
--> Paradox - suffering to ordered - like soilders or like graves?
- "tears between...pre-lunch beers" > internal thyme > juxaposition
- the lost lives are easily forgotten
- "he earns his living and they do not care" > collective pronoun > last line
- accuses evryone
War Photographer - Word/Phrase Analysis
"Sunday's Supplements" --> silibance and passive sound - spiting out words (shows anger)
"a half-formed ghost" --> metaphor + emotive - could mean photo is still developing - or the person is dieing - or he is already dead
"Eyeballs priick" --> suggests small term pain, readers od newspaper would forget it quickly
"ordinary pain" (about the british weather) --> oxymoron - suggest guilt in how he complains about the weather when people are dying
War Photographer - Structure/Form
enjambment --> gradual revealing of photo
Regualr Structure (4stanza 6lines) --> him giving order to chaos
Written as a narritive --> gives sense of detachment, away from sufffering
Volta (Stanza 3) --> switch from general effects of war to a more peronalised view (looking at that one photo)- personal cost of war = more impact (guilt)
War Photographer - Context
line 12 "running children in nightmare heat" --> ref to Nick Ut's "Napalm Girl" V.War
Ozymandias - Language
"Sneer of cold command" --> synaesthesia (senses) - suggests power anad arrogance
"Yet survive(the statue), stamped on these lifless things" --> Juxaposition- suggests art outlives human power,ironically but art is not immortal, and can not immortalise power
"Ye Mighty, and Despair!" --> Exclamortary phrase - shows power authority and anger
--> Ironic - nobody is listening
"boundless and bare...lone and level...sands strech far away" --> Alliteration - emphasises emptiness
--> Iconic - sand is iconic of time (hourglass)
Ozymandias - Words/Phrases
"Shatter'd visage" --> ironic - face is unrecognisable = pointless
"Look on my ..." --> stressed sylable - tone of command
"colossal wreck" --> metaphor/double meaning - statue is a mess/metaphor for his ego
Ozymandias - Structure/Form
Sonnet (14 lines) and iambic penatmeter --> usually related to love/romance - sarcastic poets views of Ozymandias
Ireggular rhyme scheme -->symbolic of broken imperfect statue
"mock'd...fed" --> secondhand account/past participle - distances reader from king
Ozymandias - Context
Inspired by the unearting of the statue of Ramesses II
Pharaohs thought they were gods in a mortal form whos legacy was imortal
London - Language
"mark in every face ..marks of weakness, marks of weo" --> repetition/hyperbole - emphasises feeling of bleakness (marked) on everyones skin (anger)
"mind-forged manacles" --> Alliteration - draws attention to metaphor
--> metaphor - people are norphysically held back, its their thoughts and attitudes
"Chimney sweeper's cry//Every black'ning church appals" --> juxaposition - innocent children vs supposably clean but corrupt church (anger) - Blake saw religion as a tool of control
"youthful harlots curse" --> oxymoron- hoes vs youth - nothing is pure
--> double meaning - swearing hoes or how they are a curse on London (anger)
London - Words/Phrases
Stanza 2 "In every ..." --> Anaphora - emphasises everyone is effected including infants
"I hear", "cry", "curse" --> senses - creates vivid image of hellish experience
"marriage hearse." --> oxymoron, final phrase - happy vs death, everything has been destroyed
London - Structure
Unbroken ABAB rhyme --> echos relentless misery of London
e.g. "Runs down palace walls" --> powerful last line in every stanza - sums up message to create impact
Dramatic monolgue/First person --> moer personal and realistic
London - Context
Line 12 - "Runs in blood down palace walls" --> ref to F.Rev, rich are protected
Remains - Language
"I see broad daylight on the other side" --> graphic hyperbole
"Three of kind all letting fly" --> poker analogy - his death was a rseult of a game of chance
"probably armed, possibvly not " --> repetion Line 4 an 22 - unclear memory, constantly replayed in his mind, torturing him
"his bloody life in my bloody hands" --> repetition/double meaning - bloody = swering or actual blood
"Then I'm home on leave. But I blink /// and he bursts"
--> short simple monosyllibic sentence - he thinks he's safe when he gets home, but still confused
--> emjabment - he cant move on, emphaises "blink", nightmarish
Remains -Word/Analysis
"legs it" --> colloquuailism - as its something ordinary, but itv isnt
"sort of inside out" --> dehumanisation - hopefully reduces his mental pain
"I see..." --> Anaphora - emphasises visual horror
"rips through his life" --> metaphor
Remains - Structure/Form
First person plural to singular -->emphasises his guilt getting stronger
Colloquilsm --> sense of realism
Loose (internal) ryhme --> suggests he cant coupe
Remains - Context
PTSD --> emotional numbness
--> nightmares
Poppies - Language
"I pinned one onto your lapel" --> pronouns and past tense - relect their once was intamcy
Stanza 2 --> personal anecdote - domestic scene brings reader closer - juxaposes the millatary side of her son
"my words flatterned, rolled, turned into felt" --> triplism - tounged tide emotions - proud but scared
"releases a song bird from its cage" --> symbolism - a beautiful creature (son) being set free
"without // a winter coat or reinforcements" --> was imagery - emphasising how she and her son has been left vunrable
Poppies - Words/Phrases
"gelled back thorns" (his hair) --> metaphor - short hair needed in army also shows aggressiveness
--> symbolism - Jesus thorned crown on the cross - sacrifice
"Intoxicated" --> hyperbole - hints lack of control - giving up hes life
" s aingle dove"--> symbolsim - peace and or mourning
Poppies - Structure/Form
Long sentences + emjabment --> a sense of absorbton in emotions and thoughts, natural tone
"I listened, hoping to hear" --> Caesureae - holding back tears
Chronological order + flash foward --> ambigous time frame - memory of childhood + him leaving
Monologue --> to give narrative effect
Storm on the Island - Language
"Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear" (final line)--> oxymoron/paradox - storm invisble, hwo can you fair something invisible (nature and fear)
"spits like a tame cat//Turned savage" --> simile - only scary if we choose to to be (fear)
"Exploding comfortably" --> oxymoron - violence is ok when it is far away
"We sit tight while wind dives" --> assonace - hissing and spitting of sea
Storm on the Island - Words/Phrases
"tragic chorus" (the trees) --> anthropomorphism - creates an image of trees gathered, swaying and making loud noises as the storm hits
"strafes" "salvo" "bombarded" --> semantic field of millitery images - weather and wind = air raids
"We are prepared"(fist line) --> collective expression - sense of saftey compared to fearful last line
Storm on the Island - Structure/Form
Blank verse + emjabment + Direct address "you know" --> conversational tone
"but no:" --> monosylibic + volta + caesura - point when everyone loses their sh*t
Storm on the Island - Context
Whole Poem metaphor for storm of Religious violence in NI
"its a huge nothing that we fear" --> questioning God and his power, only fear him if you allow him to
My Last Duchess - Language
"Fra Pandolf's hands" --> allusion - materialism, pride, values artist > painting
"(since none puts by // The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)"
--> paraenthesis - shows power - emphasises special ocation
--> irony - he can trol her looks now but not when she was alive
"half flush that dies along her throat " --> foreshadowing, sinister tone, semantic links to murder
"She had // A heart --how should I say?-- ... too easily impressed" --> interpolation. rhetorical question vs emjabment - tries to be polite to cover up anger, he is critising her good qualities
"had you skill in speech -(which I have not)-"-->interpolation - false modesty -cares about his image
My Last Duchess - Words/Phrases
'I gave commands' --> euphamism - killed her
'gift of a nine-hundred years-old name' --> ironically mocking - identity
My Last Duchess - Structure/Form
Dramatic monologue --> Conversational tone, no one speaks -shows control
iambic penameter --> Converastional tone, romantic technique for sinister poem
ryhming couplets --> romantic effect, shows control
emjabment --> he gets carried away with the duchess rather than painting
cyclical --> begins/end with famous artists
My Last Duchess - Context
Duke Ferrea's wife died suspicously
Browning's wife's father was over protective
Exposure - Language
"flowing flakes that flock" --> alliteration - emphasises relentlesnnes of snow
"Therefore, not loath, ... out here; therefore" --> scatterd punctuation - panic and death
"poignant misery of dawn" --> oxymoron - dawn is meant to be happy
"All their eyes are ice" --> metaphor/double meaning - man has lost emotion - dead/living are frozen
"God's invincible spring our love is made afraid" --> juxaposition -they have lost hope in God
Exposure - Words/Phrases
"But nothing happens" --> repetition, end of stanza - no progress even with death
"we cring inholes" --> zoomorphism - man is animal in the eyes of nature - scared like rabbits
"snow-dazed , sun dozed" --> half rhyme - current vs past - imperfect imagery
Exposure - Structure/Form
8 Stanzas with last half line on each --> no progress (stasis)
Punctionation --> used to force pause, - slows down poem - boredom
Regular rhyme scheme (ABBAC) --> repetitive
Exposure - Context
WW1 soilder
Religion:
"God's invincible spring our love is made afraid" --> juxaposition - they have lost hope in God
"Like a rumour of some other war" --> Bilblical ref - Jesus descriping end of the world
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