poetry

THEMES;

Power of nature - power of time - power of humans - arrogance - negative emotions - pride

WORDS/QUOTES WHICH SHOW THIS;

• 'kings of kings' - arrogance best of the best
• 'sneer og cold comman' - arrogance looking down on people 
• 'look on my works ye mighty and despair' - imperetive 
• 'i met' - the narrator had to learn of Ozymandias 

RHYME SCHEME; 

Starts strong ABAB but as the poem continues the pattern deteriates - represents Ozymandias's power, reputation and that his rules are decaying and becoming weaker 

STRUCTURE ; 

14 lines - Sonnet (love poem) - only thing hes in love with is himself 

THEMES;

power of humans - loss and absence - negative emotions - anger - indivdual experiences 

WORDS/QUOTES WHICH SHOW THESE;

• 'infant's cry of fear' - the speaker has heard distressing noises, vivid hellish experience
• 'mark in every face i meet' - could suggest everyone is affected
• 'youthful harlot's curse' - could be that the prostitutes are a curse on London
• 'each chartered street' - suggests whole city is effected
• 'blackening church' - angry at forms of power black is very negative
• 'chimney sweeper's' - emotive imagery 
• 'blasts the new-born infants tear - loss of inocence as soon as born 
• 'every...every...every' - repetition shows bleakness and suggets it affects everyone 
• 'runs in blood down palace walls' - anger at forms of power suggests ordinary people suffer 
• 'chartered tymes' - even powerful natural features are controlled by humans 
• 'wander' suggests the narrator feels as they have no purpuse to make a change 

THEMES

power of nature - memory - negative emotions - fear - individual experiences 

WORDS/QUOTES THAT SHOW THIS; 

• 'led by her' - nature is personified 
• 'troubled pleaure' - oxymoron hints narrators guilt 
• 'i struck and struck again... still in stature...shape - repetition of sibilance creates sinister mood 
• 'upreared its head' - the mountain is personified 
• 'like a swan' - natursl simile shows the narrator is confident and in control
• 'glittering' + ' sparkling light' - light imagery 

STRUCTURE

iambic pentameter (mimics natural speech)

enjambment - creates a story atmosphere 

THEMES; power of humans - memory - negative emotions - pride - identity 

WORDS/QUOTES WHICH SHOW THIS;

• 'if they durst' - suggets people were scared of his temper 
• 'i gave commands' - imperetive, suggets his wifes murder
• ''none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you but i' - he can control who sees his wife 
• 'disgusts' - bothered about his wifes behaviour 
• 'too soon made glad' - duke meant this as criticism 
• 'dies' + 'throat' -  reference to death out of place hints at duchess's fate 
• 'that spot' - repetition shows that his wifes blushes bothered him 
• 'i choose never to stoop' looks down on his wife, she is beneath him
• 'notice neptune, though taming a sea-horse, throught a rarity - 'returns back to his wealth 

STRUCTURE/FORM enjambment - used to match natural speech / dramatic monologue - arrogant selfish needs to be in control