Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley- suggests an absence of life,promises a story of tyranny and mockery, not a first hand account and shows how unimportant Ozymandias is today
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: irony, he wants others to despair for the size and stature, yet they should despair for their lack of power, arrogance or worry in relation to power, enjambment is a symbolism of time
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"...colossal wreck, boundless and bare"
alliteration, emphasises empty atmosphere, demostrates idea that power is a waste of time and amounts to nothing
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"i wander through each chartered street/ where the chartered Thames does flow/ and mark in every face i meet/ marks of weakness, marks of woe"
London by William Blake: footstep-like rhythm, confined, trapped in society, political and economic control. only refers to himself once, he is insignificant and cannot change anything
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"mind-forged manacles i hear"
London by William Blake: mental oppression, self-imposed chains, lack of freedom, only restriction is themselves
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"every black'ning church...runs in blood down palace walls"
London by William Blake: oxymoron, industrial revolution, industry destroys our morals, suffering marked in blood, graphic, church and state must know, words are not enough
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"there hung a darkness, call it solitude" and "a trouble to my dreams"
The Prelude by William Wordsworth: imagery, gothic, nightmares, compelling power of nature, sinister intentions, shows that his state of mind becomes troubled by the end of the poem
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"One summer evening (led by her)"
The Prelude by William Wordsworth: personification of nature, nature shows him sights, engineers him to see this, power and control
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"That's my Last Duchess painted on the wall/ Looking as if she were alive"
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning: exhibition, power over his wife, objectifies the Duchess and makes her appear as an object or possession, sounds like he owns her not just the painting
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"Will't please you sit and look at her?"
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning: determined for people to see who she really is, authorative figure, look into her soul and see the evil and sin deep down, desperate
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Card 2
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: irony, he wants others to despair for the size and stature, yet they should despair for their lack of power, arrogance or worry in relation to power, enjambment is a symbolism of time
Back
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Card 3
Front
alliteration, emphasises empty atmosphere, demostrates idea that power is a waste of time and amounts to nothing
Back
Card 4
Front
London by William Blake: footstep-like rhythm, confined, trapped in society, political and economic control. only refers to himself once, he is insignificant and cannot change anything
Back
Card 5
Front
London by William Blake: mental oppression, self-imposed chains, lack of freedom, only restriction is themselves
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