English literature paper 2 - poems
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Ozymandius
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
Narrative structure
Ozymandius
“My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings”
works are now just a ruin mocking the kings boast
London
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
Suffering visible in London social and economic issues on individuals
London
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
metaphor suggests the oppression isn’t just physical its also mental
The prelude
“Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
Weather changing negatively
The prelude
“She was an elfin pinnace; lustily”
nature - she personification
My last Duchess
“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
possessiveness and control - unsettling nature of the poem
My last Duchess
“Will please you sit and look at her?, I said fra pandolf by design for never read.”
Manipulative purpose controlling narrative of the Duchesse’s life
The charge of the light brigade
“Half a league, half a league”
repetition and anaphora
The charge of the light brigade
“Into the jaws of death”
personification - bible being used
Exposure
“Iced east winds that knifed us”
Metaphor - cold conditions
Exposure
“Like twitching of men among its brambles”
Similie - they don’t want to be there and they are regretting it
Storm of the island
“Splints like a tame cat”
Similie - storm disrupting, destroying and being aggressive
Storm on the island - (Structure) Single Stanza poem
“Exploding comfortably down the cliff”
Enjabment - everyone coming to take shelter, their words spilling out
Bayonet charge
“Like a man who has jumped up in the darkened runs”
Similie - Dosen’t want to die and regretting his decision
Bayonet charge
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
personification - bullets flying everywhere (Traumatic)
Remains
“Pain itself, the image of agony”
Metaphor - dealing with ptsd and pain
Remains
“His bloody life, in my bloody hands”
repetition of bloody - ptsd
Poppies
“Leaned against it like a wishbone
simile - wishes her son could come back
Poppies
‘The dove pulled freely against the sky”
symbolises hope and peace
War photographer
“A hundred agonies black and white”
Metaphor - images of pain and death
War photographer
“spools off suffering set out in ordered rows”
photos set out in a line - feeling guilty
Tissue
“smoothed and stroked and turned”
power of 3
Tissue
“Turned into your skin”
Less metaphorical future more literal
The Emigree
“I left as a child”
No longer a child, 1st person
The Emigree
“It tastes of sunlight”
Metaphor - Country is unwell
Checking out me history
“Dem tell me”
Repetition - “them and us”
Checking out me history
“All dat”
Dismisses British history
Kamikaze
“Strung out like bunting”
Similie and Metaphor - Decorative lines to create the image of the fish nets
Kamikaze - Structure - (Free verse)
“The dark shoals of fishes”
Juxtaposition - Symbolises beauty and power of nature
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