Poetry Anthology

Nature (Human vs Nature, Sublime, Fear, Power of Nature, Human power over nature, Beauty of nature)

o Ozymandias, The Prelude, My Last Duchess, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Tissue, Kamikaze

- Human power (misuse?)

o Ozymandias, London, My Last Duchess, Tissue

Effects/Reality of conflict (PTSD, family, Guilt, Patriotism)

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Bayonet Charge, Remains, War Photographer, Poppies, Kamikaze

Loss & Absence

London, Exposure, Poppies, The Emigree, Kamikaze

Memory

The Prelude, My Last Duchess, Remains, Poppies, The Emigree, Kamikaze, Checking Out Me History

Fear (sublime nature, war)

The Prelude, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge

Anger

London, War Photographer, Checking Out me History

Identity

My Last Duchess, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Emigree, Kamikaze, Checking Out Me History

War

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, The Emigree, Kamikaze

Ozymandias/1

Petrarchan sonnet

Ozymandias/2

Poet radically politically & disapproved of the British monarchy

Ozymandias/3

1 stanza, irregular rhyme scheme, mostly iambic pentameter

Ozymandias/line 4

"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies"

Ozymandias/line 2

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"

Ozymandias/line 5

"Wrinkled lip" "sneer of cold command"

Ozymandias/line 8

"The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed"

Ozymandias/line 10

"king of kings"

Ozymandias/line 11/12

"Look on my works" "Nothing beside remains."

Ozymandias/line 13/1

"colossal wreck"

Ozymandias/line 13

"boundless and bare"

Ozymandias/line 14

"The lone and level sands stretch far away"

O/Variety of Sentence Lengths

emphasise the collapse of time

O/stories within stories/embedded narrative

messages can be lost through time

O/the breaking down through age

9 line sentence/12 sub-clause(breaks down the sentence)

O/the frequent "O" in the poems such as in "Ozymandias"

the round letters indicate that the end of nothing

O/Plato Symposium

socrates argues men can be "pregnant in the mind" and give birth to a superior form of humans such as poems or literature

O/Golding

art gives truth to power

O/"stamped on these lifeless things"

George Orwells definition of fascism: "imagine a boot stamping on a human face for all eternity"

London/1

Poem of protest; Part of the romantic movement

London/2

1789 published in 'Songs of innocence and experienc

London/3

Poet: Christian but not CofE, opposed church & monarchy for taking advantage of the people, growing up = repressing impulses/desires (disagrees), anger at people in power not caring about the lives of the common people

London/4

ABAB rhyme scheme e.g. "street" "meet", regular stanzas = restraint

London/line 1/2

"charted street" "charted Thames"

London/line 4

"Mark in every face I meet // Marks of weakness, marks of woe"

London/line 9/10 (hyphen represents chains and entrapment)(church is stained with soot to reflect the death of their own citizens)

"chimney-sweeper's cry" "Every black'ning church appalls"

London/line 11/12(shows the death of the monarchy, blake saying to get rid of the controlling monarchy, palace is stained with blood to represent the death of the soldiers they sent)

"hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls"

London/line 15(Plosive reflects the shouting of the mother at the child the suffering of the child abuse is a cycle)

"youthful harlot's curse blasts the new-born infant's tear"

London/line 16

"marriage hearse"

Enjambment

the 1st stanza is one sentence which shows the flow/ no man can control nature

London/Percy Shelley

poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world

London/demosthenes

we haves wives for the running of our hold hold and the breeding of legitimate children;we have courtesans for pleasure

London/Paradise Lost

milton in paradise lost describing pandemonium city of hell

London/Karl Marx

philosophers have hitherho only interpreted the world in many ways the point is however is to change it

Prelude/1

Dramatic monologue, Romanticism, Edmund Burke: Nature is sublime

Prelude/2

"The poem on the growth of my own mind" - Autobiographical poem on self reflection

Prelude/3

Blank verse, 1 stanza, enjambment, caesura

Prelude/Line 1

"(led by her)"

Prelude/Line 4

"Straight I unloosed her chain"

Prelude/Line 17

"She was an elfin pinnace"

Prelude/Line 20

"heaving through the water like a swan"

Prelude/Line 22

"a huge peak, black and huge" (broken iambic pentameter)

Prelude/Line 23/24

"As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head"

Prelude/Line 24

"I struck and struck again"

Prelude/Line 28/29

"measured motion like a living thing" "Strode after me"

Prelude/Line 39-41("No" tricolon + imagery suggesting familiarity and pleasantness of nature "But huge and mighty forms")

"No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; But huge and mighty forms"

Prelude/Line 38/39

"There hung a darkness, call it solitude //or blank desertion"

P/It describes the soul’s journey towards union with God through a process known as the "dark night of the soul."

"Noche Oscura"

P/Leda and the swans

Zeus, in the form of a swan, assaults Leda, a mortal woman. Leads to the Trojan War.

P/Plato

Plato's Allegory of the Cave -they believe these shadows are reality, the world outside is far more real than the cave’s shadows.

MLD/1

Dramatic monologue

MLD/2

Madonna complex

MLD/3

Long (ranting) & short (regain control) sentences, Rhyming couplets (masculine rhyme), Iambic pentameter

MLD/4

"My Last Duchess" - Possessive pronoun, one of many (women are replaceable), Only relation to him mentioned not name (of less importance)

MLD/G

"My Last Duchess" - Possessive pronoun, one of many (women are replaceable), Only relation to him mentioned not name (of less importance)

MLD/3

"Frá Pandolf's hands"

MLD/Line 46/47

"There she stand//as if alive.Will't please you rise?"

MLD/Line 15/16

"spot of joy"

MLD/Line 25(death imagery/wants to control her but she finds beauty in other things

"dropping of the daylight in the West"

MLD/Line 28/29

"the white mule she road with round the terrace"

MLD/Line 33

"My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name"

MLD/Line 34/35(she below him)

"Who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?"

MLD/Line 40

"Herself be lessoned"

MLD/Line 46 (caesure her life ends half way/everyone stopped smilling she was beloved)

"I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together"

MLD/Line 53

(next wife) "object"

MLD/Line 55

"Notice Neptune, though, teaming a sea-horse"

MLD/Neptune

Poseidon (Neptune) assaults Medusa in Athena’s temple.

Instead of punishing Neptune, Athena punishes Medusa

MLD/Line 56

Last syllable: "me"

CLB/1

110 killed, 130 wounded, Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War

CLB/2

Dactylic meter, repetition, short sentences (simplicity of mindset + loyalty)

CLB/3

Romantic hero

CLB/4

Poet uninterested in blaming: "some one had blunder'd" vague, focuses on heroism of the common man, death = fame

CLB/Line 1

"Half a league" tricolon

CLB/Line 3

"in the valley of death"

CLB/Line 13-15 (strong rhyme/commitment)

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

CLB/Line 18-20

"Cannon to the right... left... in front of them"

CLB/Line 21/22

"Volley'd and thunder'd" "Storm'd at with shot and shell"

CLB/Line 24/25(increasing sense of violence)

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

CLB/Line 27/28

"Flash'd all their sabres bare, flash'd as they turn'd in air"

CLB/Line 44

"horse and hero fell"

CLB/Line 50

"When can their glory fade?"

CLB/Line 53

"All the world wonder'd" (break meter)

CLB/Line 53/54

"Honour" x2 (imperative)

CLB/Line 55

"Noble six hundred!"

CLB/Hemingway

Mechanised Doom

CLB/Wilfred Owen

War and the pity of War

CLB/Dulce...

Dulce et decorum est pro Patra Mon/Beautiful and sweet it is to die for your Country

CLB/What happens at Line 50

the Narrative focus shift to the life after the event and acts as a eulogy or epitaph to the soldier

CLB/Aenied

“Arms, and the man I sing” is the opening line of Virgil’s epic, the Aeneid. Story of war and how the people live beyond the event

CLB/glory

Kleos/the glory of war

CLB/Achilles Pericles

The greatest sacrifice you can make is to fight and die for your city state