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I don't have a funny description for this one so idk man, I just don't want to fail English, what else do you want? Everything highlighted in red is a technique, probably.
‘half sunk’
Ozymandias - the statue is in the ground, this is a symbol of the mortality of humans and their power
‘sneer of cold command’
Ozymandias - this is a metaphor and alliteration as it shows how harsh and cruel this ruler was.
‘king of kings’
Ozymandias - this is a biblical reference
‘Round the decay’
Ozymandias - this a symbol for human power and morality, references biological decomposing
‘nothing yet remains’
Ozymandias - showcases human mortality with the word ‘nothing’
‘sand’
Ozymandias - this is a symbol for the power of nature
‘each charted street’
London - shows how everything is mapped out and how humans don’t like nature
‘infant’s cry of fear’
London - ‘infant’ shows how everyone is affected and ‘fear’ juxtaposes ‘infant’ as we associate joy with babies.
‘marks of weakness, marks of woe’
London - use of repetition, feeling of bleakness and hopelessness of change
‘blights with plague’
London - use of biblical reference and how the poor are affected by this because of the rich
‘glittering’ ‘stars’ ‘sparkling light’
The Prelude - lexical field of peace and celestial imagery (relates to the sublime)
‘black and huge’ ‘trembling’ ‘towered’
The Prelude - lexical field of fear
‘huge’
The Prelude - use of repetition and emphasises the power of nature
‘my last Duchess’
My Last Duchess - use of possessive pronoun which suggests control
‘that piece’
My Last Duchess - objectifies and dehumanizes his dead wife’s portrait which suggests control
‘a heart’
My Last Duchess - this is a symbol for love and care and suggests he doesn’t want her to love and care for other people, highlighting his control
‘I gave commands’
My Last Duchess - suggests he killed her, but still had control over the situation.
‘valley of Death’
The Charge of the Light Brigade - use of repetition and a biblical reference which suggests danger
‘someone had blunder’d’
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Context: The Author was a government poet at the time so it’s a surprise that he does recognise in the poem that it was ‘someone’ who is to blame.
‘mouth of Hell’
The Charge of the Light Brigade - use of personification and biblical reference which shows danger
‘Honour’
The Charge of the Light Brigade - suggests admiration of them even though they died because of a mistake (aka no reason)
‘What are we doing here?"‘
Exposure - use of a rhetorical question, questions the point of war
‘But nothing happens’
Exposure - use of repetition and how the soldiers are forever waiting for conflict, the reason they joined the war
‘sudden successive’
Exposure - use of sibilance which mimics gunfire
‘For the love of God seems dying’
Exposure - use of a double meaning: The soldier’s love of god is dying or God’s love for them is dying
‘We are prepared’
Storm on the Island - showcases how the people on the island think they are ready for the storm but they are not.
‘exploding comfortably’
Storm on the Island - use of a oxymoron: danger and safety.
‘like a tame cat turned savage’
Storm on the Island - use of a simile and how familiar things can quickly turn scary/dangerous. Emphasizes the power of nature.
‘strafes’ ‘salvo’ ‘bombarded’
Storm on the Island - use of a lexical field of war
‘bullets smacking’
Bayonet Charge - use of violent imagery which emphasise the reality of conflict
‘patriotic tear’
Bayonet Charge - showcases how patriotism has turned to fear
‘cold clockwork’
Bayonet Charge - use of alliteration which showcases how the people in power have no care for the soldiers
‘the stars and the nations’
Bayonet Charge - emphasises the insignificance of the soldiers
‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera’
Bayonet Charge - criticises and dismissive towards excuses for war
‘probably armed, possibly not’
Remains - use of repetition which suggests the soldier is replaying the memory because of guilt. Also suggests uncertainty.
‘rips through his life’
Remains - use of a violent metaphor which suggests guilt
‘somebody’
Remains - use of repetition which suggests that it doesn’t matter who he was with because that’s not the focus. It could have been anyone with him.
‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’
Remains - a reference to Macbeth which suggests guilt
‘poppies’ ‘graves’ ‘petals’
Poppies - use of a lexical field of remembrance
‘blinding’ blockade ‘war’
Poppies - use of a lexical field of war
‘released a song bird from its cage’
Poppies - use of a metaphor which suggests the mother has accepted her child has gone now
‘playground voice catching on the wind’
Poppies - use of a metaphor which suggests the mother is still nostalgic for the past
‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
War Photographer - ‘spools of suffering set’ is sibilance which gives the effects of gunfire. ‘Rows’ suggest war graves. ‘Ordered’ juxtaposes what we think of war (chaotic not orderly)
‘running children in a nightmare heat’
War Photographer - ‘nightmare’ is a metaphor to highlight the extremeness of this photo. Could be a possible reference to the ‘Napalm Girl’ photo.
‘a half formed ghost’
War Photographer - use of a double meaning: The photo hasn’t fully developed yet and the man in the photo is dead.
‘they do not care’
War Photographer - the people back at his home only on the surface level care
‘rivers make, roads, railtracks’
Tissue - use of alliteration which gives it a flowing effect and a sense of freedom
‘with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last.’
Tissue - use of a volta which shifts focuses on human morality
‘turned into your skin’
Tissue - suggests humans are influenced by paper and that we will be forgotten but not our influence.
Extended metaphor for Life
What is Tissue’s extended metaphor?
Extended metaphor for nostalgia
What is The Emigree’s extended metaphor?
‘it may be sick with tyrants’
The Emigree - use of personification of the city which links to the extended metaphor of nostalgia
‘sunlight’
The Emigree - use of repetition and is a symbol for positivity
‘it tastes of sunlight’
The Emigree - use of sensory imagery which suggests the vividness of experiences
‘Dem tell me’
Checking Out Me History - use of anaphora and repetition in which he writes out his accent, showing how he’s proud of his identity and emphasises how someone else have told him about history.
‘bandage’ blind’
Checking Out Me History - use of a lexical field of hiddeness and metaphors which emphasizes how history has been hidden from him.
‘sunrise’ ‘healing star’
Checking Out Me History - this juxtaposes the blinding of history at the start and suggests hope
‘identity’
Checking Out Me History - this is the final word of the poem and sums up the main theme
‘full of powerful incantations’
Kamikaze - use of a metaphor which shows the influence of patriotic propaganda and how it is difficult to go against society.
‘strung out like bunting’
Kamikaze - use of a simile which contrasts with war. It also uses irony as the father should be focusing on the warships, not the boats.
‘never spoke again in his presence’
Kamikaze - shows how the father was dishounered
‘been the better way to die’
Kamikaze - shows how the father was alive but treated as dead. If he died on the mission, he would have been remembered as a war hero
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