War and Conflict Poetry

War and Conflict Poetry

Ozymandias

• 1817 - Written after hearing about how an Italian explorer had retrieved the statue from the desert.
• The Narattor meets a traveler who tells him about a statue from the dessert.
• The statue is of a king who ruled over a past civilisation.
• The statue has a proud face

In the inscription he boasts about his power.

Statue however, has crumbled away - only ruins remain 

          - Can suggest he has lost his power

          - Crumbled as no one cares

London

• 1794 - William Blake
• William Blake believed in Social and Racial equality - questioned church teachings.

About : The narrator walking through London picking out the bad things he sees happening.

The Prelude : Stealing the boat

• 1850 - Published after the poets (William Wordsworth's) death

About : The Narrator found a boat and rowed it over the lake but a mountain appeared so he rows back with his views of nature changed.

My Last Dutchess

• 1842 - Robert Browning

About : The Narrator admiring a painting of his late Dutchess, who he supposedly murdered as he was jealouse and scared she was cheating on him.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

• 1854 - Alfred Tennyson

About : Soldiers charging…