15 poems

Front: What quote shows Ozymandias’ arrogance?

Back: “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” → arrogance and pride; context: Shelley critiques power and hubris; all human achievements are temporary.

Front: Which technique is used in Ozymandias to show decay of power?

Back: Irony & juxtaposition – the “colossal wreck” contrasts with the boastful inscription → power is temporary.

Front: Quote showing suffering in London

Back: “Marks of weakness, marks of woe” → repetition; reflects social inequality and oppression in Industrial Revolution London.

Front: Quote showing restriction and control in London

Back: “Charter’d Thames” → ironic; humans trying to control nature; shows institutional power.

Front: Quote showing fear and awe of nature in The Prelude

Back: “Troubled pleasure” → oxymoron; Romantic idea: nature is powerful and overwhelming.

Front: Quote showing human vulnerability in The Prelude

Back: “Upreared its head” → personification of mountain; nature dominates man.

Front: Quote showing controlling power in My Last Duchess

Back: “I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together” → euphemism for murder; Duke’s authority over Duchess.

Front: Quote showing pride and arrogance in My Last Duchess

Back: “Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse” → alludes to power and status; context: Renaissance patriarchy and wealth.

Front: Quote showing bravery in The Charge of the Light Brigade

Back: “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die” → repetition; soldiers obey commands despite fatal risk; context: Crimean War.

Front: Quote showing chaos of battle in The Charge of the Light Brigade

Back: “Into the valley of Death” → biblical allusion & personification; battle as overwhelming force.

Front: Quote showing futility of war in Exposure

Back: “But nothing happens” → repetition; soldiers trapped in freezing conditions; WWI commentary.

Front: Quote showing nature’s power in Exposure

Back: “Merciless iced east winds that knive us…” → personification; environment as deadly as war.

Front: Quote showing hopelessness in Exposure

Back: “Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army” → personification; soldiers’ suffering continuous.

Front: Quote showing human preparation in Storm on the Island

Back: “We are prepared: we build our houses squat” → defensive, yet vulnerable to nature; context: Northern Ireland, political instability.

Front: Quote showing nature’s power in Storm on the Island

Back: “Exploding comfortably” → oxymoron; nature is destructive but familiar.

Front: Quote showing isolation in Storm on the Island

Back: “Spits like a tame cat / Turned savage” → simile; sudden violence of natural forces.

Front: Quote showing fear and confusion in Bayonet Charge

Back: “In bewilderment” → soldier overwhelmed; WWI, fear of death.

Front: Quote showing physical struggle in Bayonet Charge

Back: “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air” → violent imagery; war’s chaotic power.

Front: Quote showing questioning authority in Bayonet Charge

Back: “King, honour, human dignity, etcetera” → caesura & list; ironic; soldier doubts reasons for fighting.

Front: Quote showing psychological trauma in Remains

Back: “His blood-shadow stays on the street” → metaphor; PTSD from war; context: modern conflict.

Front: Quote showing guilt in Remains

Back: “I see every round as it rips through his life” → graphic imagery; soldier haunted by actions.

Front: Quote showing inevitability of memory in Remains

Back: “Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not” → repetition; uncertainty and trauma.

Front: Quote showing maternal grief in Poppies

Back: “I pinned one onto your lapel” → small action loaded with love & loss; context: remembrance of soldiers.

Front: Quote showing longing in Poppies

Back: “Released a song bird from its cage” → metaphor; letting go emotionally.

Front: Quote showing anxiety in Poppies

Back: “I was brave, as I walked with you” → irony; bravery is emotional, not physical.

Front: Quote showing detachment in War Photographer

Back: “Spools of suffering” → alliteration; photographer processes horrors from a distance.

Front: Quote showing human indifference in War Photographer

Back: “The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears” → irony; people feel briefly then forget.

Front: Quote showing power of images in War Photographer

Back: “A hundred agonies in black-and-white” → hyperbole; images convey war’s impact.

Front: Quote showing fragility of human power in Tissue

Back: “Paper that lets the light shine through” → metaphor; human constructs are temporary.

Front: Quote showing control vs freedom in Tissue

Back: “Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines” → metaphor; questioning boundaries.

Front: Quote showing permanence of nature in Tissue

Back: “If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift” → conditional; natural forces outlast human power.

Front: Quote showing reclaiming identity in Checking Out Me History

Back: “Dem tell me” → repetition & dialect; rejecting imposed history.

Front: Quote showing loss of history in Checking Out Me History

Back: “Bandage up me eye with me own history” → metaphor; colonial education erases cultural identity.

Front: Quote showing empowerment in Checking Out Me History

Back: “I carving out me identity” → metaphor; taking control of narrative.

Front: Quote showing shame and duty in Kamikaze

Back: “A one-way journey into history” → foreshadowing death; context: WWII Japanese pilots, honour code.

Front: Quote showing nature’s beauty in Kamikaze

Back: “A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous” → metaphor & personification; nature contrasts human duty.

Front: Quote showing alienation in Kamikaze

Back: “He must have wondered which had been the better way to die” → irony; pilot judged by family/community.

Back: “He must have wondered which had been the better way to die” → irony; pilot judged by family/community.