Poems- Power and Conflict

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Ozymandias: "Half-sunk, a shatter'd visage lies,"
Ironic- humanity can't control time, theme of power.
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"sneer of cold command,"
Theme of arrogance and power.
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"yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,"
Theme of power, and shows that art outlasts human power
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Dialogue. Shows arrogance, power and pride. 'Look' is emphasised to clearly present the tone of command.
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"Nothing besides remains."
Irony, as Shelley shows that Ozymandias' power is temporary against time.
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"that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away."
Plosive alliteration, alliteration, syntax, theme of power.
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London: "I wander through each chartered street"
First person. Sounds purposeless, suggests whole city is affected.
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"Marks of weakness, marks of woe."
Repetition of mark, visual imagery.
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"In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear,"
Repetition of bleakness, auditory imagery.
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"The mind forged manacles I hear."
People are trapped by attitudes + thoughts
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"black'ning church appalls,"
Anger at all forms of authority.
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"Runs in blood down palace walls."
An illusion to the French revolution
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"youthful harlot's curse Blasts the newborn infant's tear."
Auditory imagery. Contrasts innoncence of youth with sordidness of prostitution.
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"blights with plagues the marriage hearse."
Powerful connation of illness and destruction. "marriage hearse" = Oxymoron.
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My last duchess: "looking as if she were alive."
Sets a sinister tone
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"that spot of joy"
Repetition of blushing, which frustrates the duke. Also could hint at the duchess' alleged infidelity.
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"The bough of some officious fool"
Enjambent, makes it sound like the duke is getting carried away with his anger.
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"She thanked men- good! but thanked them Somehow- I know not how"
Punctuation + repetition creates a stuttering effect, which helps to underline the duke's frustration with his last wife. Suggests infidelity.
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"Who'd stoop to blame This sort of trifling?"
Rhetorical question, seeking some form of justification, repetition of stoop to suggest that the duke thought his wife was below him.
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"I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together."
Seems to be an euphenism for his wife's murder. Cold+ Cynical tone, suggests he killed his wife.
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"Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,"
The duke emphasises his power, the story of his last duchess is meant to be a subtle warning to the visitor on how he expects his future wife to behave.
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Extract from the prelude: "(led by her)"
Personification of the boat.
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"unloosed her chain,"
Suggestion of captivity
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"Of mountain echoes"
Personification of landscape, talks about power of nature
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"small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they all melted into one track of sparkling light."
Strong image of water + light. The succession of 'i' sound makes the poem seem to flow like water.
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"like a swan;"
Simile suggesting gracefulness.
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"a huge peak, black and huge,"
A mountain appears on the horizon and then the language of the poem changes- a more dark tone. Contrasts with the beginning of the poem.
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"Upreared its head. I struck and struck again,"
Personification, repetition, sounds like a nightmare.
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"measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me."
Mountain= calm + powerful, personified as a living thing, simile.
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"There hung a darkness, call it solitude"
Vague language, contrasts with stars at the beginning.
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"were a trouble to my dreams."
Finishes on a note of guilt. Contrasts with beginning.
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Charge of the Light Brigade: "Half a league, half a league"
Rhythm sounds like horses galloping
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"the valley of Death"
Repetition to continue sinister tone
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"Theirs not make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die:"
Rhyme+ Repetition to show soldiers' obedience + sence of duty.
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"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them,"
Repetition to replicate sound of bullets.
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"shot and shell,"
Sibilance to emphasise the idea of bullets flying.
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"Into jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell"
Personification of death to make it seem like a monster.
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"All the world wonder'd:"
Alliteration. Double meaning= marvelled at the bravery or wondered why they were sent on the charge.
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"When can their glory fade?O the wild charge they made!"
Rhetorical question, sounds dramatic and daring.
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"Honour the Light Brigade,"
Repetition of honour to remind us to honour the Light Brigade.
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Exposure: "merciless iced east winds that knive us"
Personification of nature, negative words.
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"But nothing happens."
Short simple half line emphasises the soldiers' boredom +tension, repetition.
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"like twitching agonies of men among its brambles."
Simile
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"flickering gunnery rumbles,"
Assonance + onomatopoeia to create a vivid description
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"What are we doing here?"
Rhetorical Question
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"Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"
Dawn is personified, dawn doesn't represent hope here.
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"Sudden succesive flights of bullets streak the silence."
Sibilance mimics whistling of bullets.
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"black with snow"
Snow symbolic of purity, but black snow symbolic of evil
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"flowing flakes"
alliteration to emphasise the relentleness if snow
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"blackbird fusses"
symbolic of death
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"Slowly our ghosts drag home"
Assonance of long 'oh' sounds to make the journey sound painful.
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"For love of God seems dying."
Double meaning
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"All their eyes are ice,"
Metaphor refering to the eyes of living and dead men.
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"But nothing happens."
Repetition suggestion that death in war doesn't change anything
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Storm on the Island: "earth has never troubled us"
Personification
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"tragic chorus in a gale"
sound imagery
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"pummels"
Violent verb to describe the wind.
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"Exploding comfortably"
Oxymoron, juxtaposes the feelings of saftey + fear
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"spits like a tame cat Turned savage."
Simile shows how familiar things become frightening during the storm.
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"We just sit tight while wind dives And strafes invisibly."
Metaphor for an enemy fighter plane, assonant 'i' sound to imitate the hising of sea.
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"Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
Contrast with 2nd line of the poem.
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Bayonet Charge: "raw"
Double meaning suggests discomfort but also inexperience
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"hot khaki, his sweat heavy,"
Repeated 'h' sound imitates the soldier's heavy breathing.
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"Bullet smacking the belly"
Onomatopoeia, visual imagery + sound imagery.
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"a rifle numb as a smashed arm;"
Simile suggests his rifle is useless + foreshadows the injuries the soldier is likely to get.
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"In what cold clockwork of stars and nations"
Emphasises the soldier's insignificance, alliteration.
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"Like a man who has jumped in dark and runs listening between his footfalls for reason Of his still running,"
Simile creates image of someone blind + irrational, suggest no rational reason for war.
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"rolled like a flame"
Simile emphasises the hare's frantic movement, hints at the danger soldier is in.
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"green hedge,"
Natural images contrast with war.
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"King, honour, human dignity, ectetera Dropped like luxuries"
The reasons to go to war, soldier reduced to a basic level.
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"His terror's touchy dynamite."
Soldier seems to have become a weapon, driven purely by his terror.
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Remains: "legs it up"
Colloquial expression- makes it sound like an anecdote.
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"all of the same mind so all three of us open fire"
Repetition sounds like he wasn't the only one, violent language.
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"End of story, except not really."
Turning point in the poem. Speaker's mood changes.
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"But I blink"
The enjambment carries you forwards.
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"Sleep, and he's probably armed and possibly not. Dream,"
Sleep + Dream seperated to make them sound like gunshots, repetition of earlier lines.
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"dug behind enemy lines,"
Metaphor compares the memory stuck in his head to a soldier in a trench.
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"some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land"
The long line + sibilance slows the pace. Reflect speaker's thoughts.
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"his bloody life in my bloody hands."
Double meaning= talks about the man's blood but swearing in anger. No collective responsiblity now; possible reference to Macbeth allusion to Lady Macbeth's guilt saying that the speaker feels very guilty.
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Poppies: "poppies had already been placed"
People have already paid their respects, allegory= poppies (allegory=symbolic)
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"the world overflowing like a treasure chest"
The simile suggests so many possibilities in life, but all will end in death.
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"a single dove flew from the pear tree, and this is where it has led me, skirting the churchyard walls"
Symbolising peace but also ties in with loss, could be an euphemism for death.
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"The dove pulled freely against the sky"
Destination, peace, vast unknown. Dove=connotation of peace.
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"I listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind."
Alliteration echoes the way she's straining to hear him, links leaving to join the army with leaving to go to school. Remembering her son + the pain his death has left her with.
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War photographer: "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows."
Paradox- chaos + suffering are reduced to something ordered.
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"as though this were a church"
Simile shows the seriousness of his work.
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"He has a job to do."
Short sentence using monosyllabic words
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"his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now."
Irony- he was calm in horrors but not now
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"to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foriegn dust."
Emphasises that he has an important role. 'Stained' hints at lasting impact of war.
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"A hundred agoines in black and white"
Emotive metaphor to describe photos. Solidfying the effect of war.
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"Sunday's supplement The reader's eyeballs *****"
Sibilant + plosive sounds like they're being spat out. '*****' suggests small amount of pain.
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"they do not care."
Ambiguous- could refer to the readers of the newspaper or the world.
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Tissue: "Paper that lets the light shine through,"
Enjambment, emphasises light + shine. 'light' symbolic of hope. Repetition.
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"smoothed and stroked"
Tactile verb, repetition.
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"If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift, see how easily they fall away on a sigh,"
Rhyme, shift in tone. Metaphor: paper building drift with purpose, transent verb= 'fall'.
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"Fine slips from grocery shops"
Represents our dependance on money + material wealth.
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"might fly our lives like paper kites."
Simile, suggestion of childlike innoncence.
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"An architect could use all this,"
Symbolic of creating + building
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"pride can make, find a way to trace a grand design"
Personification of pride, biblical reference suggestion of a bigger picture, criticism of human pride.
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"living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last"
Ominous, can be an allusion to the horror of war + terrorism.
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Checking Out Me History: "Dem tell me"
Emphasises separateness of the British education from himself. Acusing tone.
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" Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to me own identity"
Repeated phrasing shows heritage + identity. image of bandage is ironic- meant to heal but in this case caused blindness.
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"Toussaint a slave with vision lickback Napoleon battalion"
Succession of short lines slows pace. Change of tone, rhymes, repetition.
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"Florence Nightingale and she lamp and how Robin Hood used to camp Dem tell me bout ole king Cole was a merry ole sole but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole"
Makes Nightingale seem unimportant, link folkfore + historical figures together.
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"a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise"
Metaphor links Mary Seacole to the wider universe, suggests light and warmth.
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"Dem tell me"
Repeats phonetic lines from first stanza- reminds us of narratior's anger.
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"I carving out me identity"
Emphatic final word- sums up the main theme.
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Kamikaze: "full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one way journey into history"
Sound imagery, hints at influence of propaganda. Theme of honor.
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"at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting"
Simile is homely, opposite of war. Bunting associated with celebration, which is ironic as the return of pilot isn't celebrated.
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"like a huge flag waved first one way"
Symbolising identity, simile hints that flags can be used to stop something.
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"flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun"
Repeated sibilant sounf. Connects to a samurai sword, ironic reference since the pilot turning away from the conflict.
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"built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles"
Contrast with war through innocence.
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"longest the turblent inrush of breakers bringing their father's boat safe"
Enjambment to suggest pilot caught up with memories, repetition of safe hints at pilot's mindset; contrast with war.
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"they treated him as though he no longer existed,"
Irony- he survived but treated as dead.
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"And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die."
Short sentence, could be a comment on the destructiveness of patriotism.
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very helpful and quite jam packed full of quotes thank you

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