power and conflict quotess

yeah i hate poetry

OZYMANDIAS - last lines

"boundless and bare… lone and level sands"

OZYMANDIAS - image of statue

"Half-sunk, a shattered visage lies"

OZYMANDIAS - symbolises loss of his power

"Nothing beside remains"

LONDON - his attitude to city vs outside/governmental view

"I wander through each chartered street… chartered Thames…//And mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe"

LONDON - stanzas 2->3, enjambment

"mind forged manacles I hear:// how the chimney sweeper's cry…"

LONDON - symbolism of palace's lack of accountability

"Hapless soldier's sigh, runs in blood down palace walls"

LONDON - jarring juxtaposition & seems foreboding

"the marriage hearse"

PRELUDE - language as ambitious and beautiful

"glittering idly… sparkling light"

PRELUDE - language turns simplistic
(represents: nature's power as incomprehensible/indescribable? Reflects his understanding of human insignificance?)

"A huge peak, black and huge"

PRELUDE - context/about William Wordsworth

• romantic poet - respect for nature.
• Idea of the 'sublime' - moment of being overwhelmed by nature's power and beauty

MLD - tells to look at the painting

"Will't please you sit and look at her?"

MLD - brag shows arrogance

"Frà Pandolf" "Claus of Innsbruck"

MLD - her beauty shown in painting - he thinks it shows her disloyalty/promiscuous nature

"The half flush that dies along her throat"

MLD - symbol of virginity

"Bough of cherries"

MLD - caesura shows moment his anger takes over (5 breaks in only 2 lines)

"…. at least. She thanked men - Good! But thanked// Somehow - I know not how - as if…"

MLD - shows his social status

"My nine-hundred-years-old name"

TCOTLB - context set

Battle of Balaclava, Tennyson learnt of it from the newspaper

TCOTLB - shows the idea of undeniable duty

"theirs not to make reply// theirs not to reason why// theirs but to do and die"

TCOTLB - shows vague authority figure - sense of duty despite who's giving orders

"'Charge for the guns!' he said"

TCOTLB - comparison to many famous heroes emphasises bravery

"Into the jaws of Death// Into the mouth of Hell"

TCOTLB - final lines of each stanza regarding 600

"Not the six hundred… Left of six hundred… Noble six hundred"

TCOTLB - shows their honour - RHET Q

"When can their glory fade?"

EXPOSURE - half rhyme, jarring, created dissonance

"Silent, salient" "nervous, knive us"

EXPOSURE - shows passive approach, powerless against war and weather

"watching… we watch them… and stare"

EXPOSURE - snow, reference to reloading gun

"sidelong flowing snowflakes that flock, pause and renew"

EXPOSURE - end of stanzas, shorter lines, and only rhet q

"Is it that we are dying?" "For love of God seems dying." "But nothing happens"

EXPOSURE - juxtaposition shows isolation from society (caesura)

"Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed"

SOTI - military references

"houses squat" "Strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. We are bombarded…"

SOTI - juxtapositions (shows difference between if you give nature power or not)

"Exploding comfortably" "Spits like a tame cat"

BAY CHARGE - medias res, disorients reader to match his feelings

"Suddenly, he awoke and was running"

BAY CHARGE - Ted Hughes inspired by…

Wilfred Owen

BAY CHARGE - repetition of same word, mimics Wilfred Owen's use of the same

"raw// In raw-seamed…"
("lying easy, we were at ease")

BAY CHARGE - blurred lines between machinery/weaponry and human limbs (weapons personified, body parts dehumanised)

"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air… rifle numb as a smashed arm"

BAY CHARGE - patriotism/propaganda to fight for country

"The patriotic tear… King, honour, human dignity etcetera"

BAY CHARGE - shows soldier as just a 'machine' used for the greater war

"Cold clockwork of the stars and nations"
"His terror's touchy dynamite"

REMAINS - convincing himself that murder was justified (phrase repeated)

"Probably armed, possibly not"

REMAINS - trying to separate himself from event, polsyndetic listing

"Well myself and somebody else and somebody else"

REMAINS - shows effect of murder on every aspect of man's life and relationship - suggests greater consequences e.g. on family

"I see every round as it rips through his life"

REMAINS - informal language throughout

"one of them legs it"
"sort of inside out"
"one of my mates… tosses his guts back into his body"

REMAINS - speaker wishing the story ends there/the consequences end there

"end of story, except not really"
end rhyming couplet: "sand-smothered land… desert sand"

REMAINS - ideas of guilt that link to Macbeth

"Sleep…//Dream…" (possibly also links to Hamlet 'to sleep perchance to dream' - suicidal feelings?)
"His bloody life in my bloody hands"

COMH - his 'rebellion' against English language

"dem tell me"
(also remember placement 'dem' capitalised and first and 'me' last)

COMH - idea of physical injury/disability from not being able to learn his own history

"Bandage up…//Blind me"
(first of each line as well - emphasises effect)

COMH - mockery of nursery rhymes to emphasise that priorities of British education system are wrong for his culture

"Cow who jump over the moon… de dish that ran away with the spoon"

COMH - juxtaposition of life/rebirth - shows how she turned lives around/brought people back from almost guaranteed death

"a yellow sunrise// to the dying"

COMH - last lines, put's 'I' first

"I checking out me own history// I carving out me identity"

KAMIKAZE - first line, link to country (PATRIOTISM?) and maybe connotations of death and beginnings (e.g. death of past life, beginning of new solitary life)

"embarked at sunrise"

KAMIKAZE - shows propaganda

"head full of powerful incantations"

KAMIKAZE - power of nature - DECISION

"little fishing boats// strung out like bunting// on a green-blue translucent sea"

KAMIKAZE - figure of 8, infinity symbol reflects how he feels trapped in destiny OR how he's alone while everyone else conforms to fate

"Waved first one way// then the other in a figure of eight"

KAMIKAZE - symbol of memorial/remembrance (in memory)

"built cairns of pearl-grey rocks"

KAMIKAZE - in memory, shows attempt at resisting nature/futility of resisting nature

"To see whose withstood the longest// the turbulent inrush of the breakers"

KAMIKAZE - contrast of personal speech within family to 3rd person of whole poem (shows unity in family vs solidarity regarding pilot)

"Yes, grandfather's boat"

KAMIKAZE - sibilance mimics sound of tide (returns just like pilot/father)

"safe// to the shore, salt-sodden, awash…"

KAMIKAZE - last lines (and shortest sentence overall)

"Sometimes she said, he must have wondered// which had been the better way to die"