poetry anthology eduquas

who wrote ozymandiuas

percy shelley

when was ozymandias published

january 1818

why did shelley write ozymandias

he worte is as a compeition against horace smith

why do we assume shelley describes the statue as imagined

because the staue did not arrive in london until 1821

what theme does ozymandia explore nd what does it mean

hubris- excessive pride or self confidence

what is the moral of ozymandias

that tyranny and the pride of man is powerless in the face of time

facts about the real ozymandius

was considered the most powerful egyptian emperor

what structure does ozymandias follow

it loosely follows a Petrarchan sonnet and a base meter of iambic pentameter

how does shelley open his poem with interest

-“traveller” and “antique land” suggest distant and exotic country

-also how shelley does not name the traveller

-enjabment on first line goves poem momentum

what does the factual tone in ozymandius line 2 suggest

“trunkless” shows broken and factual language does not presnt any awe.

-not expected as a person under ozymadius/ramses rule would look in awe

how does shelley present ozymadius as ruthless and mean -in middle of poem

“ a sneer of cold command”

how does shelley link the creation of the sculpture to feeding of ozymadius ego -in middle of poem

“the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”

-hand =sulcptor

-heart =ozymandius

-mocked is meant as in intimiating

how does shelley use volta (turn or shift in a sonnet) to present ozymadias ego

“my name is ozymadias king of kings look on my works ye mighty and despair”

-declares his ultimate power and pride

-arrogant

how does shelley contrast ozymadias comment with irony

“noting beside remains”

-time has eroded

-destroys self made image

-dramatic irony of “despair” we should look in his works and despair but not in the way he intended

-if time has eroded such a great king how is there hope w will be rembered

how does shelley end the poem with a theme of nothingness

“bound and bare” “lone and level”

“sands stretch far away” -zooms out of Ozymandias to show he not the most important thing there is description of surroundings

what kind of poet was shelley

-a romantic poet interested in sublime power of nature

who wrote london and when

william blake

-1794

what kind of poet was blake

-was a romantic

-was considered mad

what were blakes views on society

-blake did not like industrial revelutiona nd though it was a threat to humankind

-he blamed church, moanrchy and military for exploting people of society

why was blake angry at church

-they exploited small boys to be chimney sweeps

what is london about

a walk though london where blake describes sights and sounds to create a bleak portrait of a city whos peolple are being exploited and appressed

what is the structure of london

-4 quatrains (lines)

-rhyme stay the same thoughout

-poem is written in 1st person present which gives perosnal tone and sense of immediacy

-3 out of 4 stanzas are about hearing which provides city with melancholy soundtrack

how does blake open london to make the writer sound aimless and the city under control

“i wander” “charterd street” -owned and subject to government

-repetition of “charterd thames” -even mighty river thames is under control

-juxtaposition of wander and chraterd suggests rebellion of speaker

how does blake suggest everyone in london is unhappy

“mark in every face i meet” “marks of weakness, marks of woe”

-is suggesting people are worn down by poverty and oppression and it is metaphorically visible on their faces

how does blake use anaphora to suggest people unhappiness is everywhere

“in every cry of every man” “in every infants cry of fear” “in every voice”

-creates worry as youngest generation symbolise hope but they are just as cursed and unhappy

how blake present the idea of indutrisliatation holding people prisoner in middle of poem

“mind forged manacles” -suggests not physicaly confined but are oppressed by industilisation which forces them to work 12 hour days

-use context here

how does blake present ideas that the church is to blame for exploitation of small boys

“chimney sweepers cry” “blackning church apalls”

-literal because of smog

-metaphorical because of evil and how church is not pure

how does blake present ideas that mocharchy is being procted at cost of people

“soliders sigh runs in blood down place walls” -blood is being shed and people are sacraficing themsleves for moncarchy who hide behind walls

-blake si suggesting monarchy has blood on its hands

how does blake present even more problems created in society

“youthful harlots curse”-young child prostitutes -morally shocking

“blasts the new born infants tear” -babies are sworn at when they cry

how blake end the poem with the sad reality of the city

“plagues the marriage hearse”-oxymoron of marriage hearse

-for blake marriage=death

-this is due to society still allowing prostitution which blake shows his dislike of

who wrote she walks in beauty

Lord Byron

what kind of poet of was byron

a romantic poet

what did byron believe about nature

that it was very powerful

what was she walks in beauty originally published in

Hebrew melodies that were meant to be put to music -this structure can be seen by the clear rhyme and rhythm -it is a lyrical poem

what inspired byron to write she walks in beauty

-seeing his cousin at a party who was in mourning

why does byron use enjambement

to carry his almost breathless appreciation of her over line breaks

what does brons use of syballance do

-shows poems musicality

-idea of lyrical

what is strking about the first line of she walks in beauty

“she walks in beuty”

-no name mysterious

-surrounds her like an aura

-or she exudes beauty

what is the similie that byron uses to describe her

“like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”

-could be in relation to her dress

-it creates a beauty that is mysterious, ethereal and cant be touched

-alliteration and syballance

how does byron present the woman as in harmony

“best of dark and bright” -contrats and juxtaposition shows she is in perfect balance and is best of those qualitites

wat does the personification of heaven suggest by Byron

“which Heaven to gaudy day denies”

-suggests she has a divine quality bestowed by God

-syaing night is nicer than day so further describing her beauty

hwo does byron suggest a change would change her beauty

“one shade the more, one ray less”

-a change in her features could ruin her perfection

how does Byron suggest there are no words to fully describe her qualities

“nameless grace”

how does Byron give an unconventional description description of her beauty

“raven tress”

-ravens aren’t normally associated with beauty

-unconventional

how does Byron further suggest her divine gift

“how pure, how dear” -suggests almost holy and clean

-incomparable

how does byron zoom in on the womans face

“and on that cheeck and o’er that brow” -outward beauty

how does byron describe her expressions

“so soft, so calm yet eloquent -contrasting qualities

how does byron describe the womans smile as attractive and the she radiates life and healt

“smiles that win” “tints that glow” -shows her attractiveness and and how she glows with life

how does byron suggest her actions are good

“tell of days in goodness spent” -be doing good things not wastingher time on useless things

how does byron suggest the love the woman feels is platonic -ends poem

“ a heart whose love is innocent”

-first mention of love in poem

-she has a clear consience

who wrote sonnet 43

Elizabeth Barret Browning

what kind of poem did barret browning write

Petrachen sonnet

-often associated with love or strong feelings

who did browning write sonnet 43 for

-the love of her husband who she is about to marry

what does barret browning repeat throughtout the poem to represtn her assertiveness -anaphora

“i love thee” -she is sure and knows her own mind

what does the semantic field of religion suggest about barret brownings love

-suggesting the deep spirituality of her love for him

what is the rhetorical question barret browning opens the poem with

“how do I love thee?” -she is challenging herself to try and articulate the extent and qualities of her love

-pause with question mark symbolises b-b own pause to ponder this question

how does b-b show that her love is multifaceted

“let me count the ways” -plural

what is the tricolon and spatial metaphor that b-b uses to describe her love

“depth and breadth and height”

-suggests love is three dimesional and all encompassing

how does b-b suggests it is a spiritual volume of her love

“my soul can reach”

-thereofre it is abract and her love for him is limitless

how does the mention of religous wrods tell us b-b loves her husband

“ends of Being and ideal Grace”

-suggests almost religous nature of her love for him

-shows her faith for him

how does b-b show her love is consetent and to do with daily life

“to the level of every days most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”

-juextaposition of previous statement to more simple and constant love

what is the similie b-b uses to show her love does no need coersion

“ freely, as men strive for right”

-it comes naturally

-humankind uses free will given by God to act morally

-Gods will

what is the similie b-b uses to describe her love as humble and inncoecnt

“purely as they turn from praise”

-humankind modestly turns away from praise

what is the effect of having a triplet of “i love thee” in the middle of the poem

it makes the poem come to a climax

how does b-b switch her attention to her painful past

“in my old greifs”

how does b-b suggest she has complete faith in her husband

“childhoods faith” implict faith as the trust of a child is very strong

how does b-b suggest thee are people who she has lost esteem for

“a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints”

-although semantic fied of religion

-more just people who she dosent revere in the same way

-context that she had to elope with her husband could be a refernce to her father who disowned her

how does b-b further suggest that a love for him consumes all her life

“with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life!”

-love is as constant as her breathing

-present in good and bad times

-jusxtaposition of emotions

how does b-b end the poem with the idea that not even death can stop her feelings for him

“if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”

-will continue to love him for eternity

-hyperbolic

who wrote the soldier

Rupert Brooke

what kind of poem is the soldier

a sonnet

context on brooke at war

-he never fought in WW1, he died of sepsis before reaching it.

context on time of publish of soldier

-written in 1914 but published in 1915 at beginning of war

-optimism provides idea it was published for good moral.

what are the themes in the soldier

-christian undertones

-nobility of scarafiice

-his legacy

-idealised past and afterlife

context about WW1 for the soldier

-killed over 20 million people and was considered one of the worst wars ever

aftermath of brookes solider

-he was condmend for his foolish naivety and sentimentality

-but it is a good representation of pre war england mood

what does the first stanza of the solider explore

-physical legacy

“flowers” “rivers”

what does the second stanza of the solider explore

-spiritual legacy

“thoughts” “dreams”

repition og england and elnglish trhought solider

6 times used

-heightens partiotic power of poem

what does brookes listing suggest in the soldier

-england has an abundnace of positive qualities

how does brooke open the poem hypothetically

“I I should die think only this of me”

-conditional tense

how does brooke suggest through enjambment that burial in another country makes it English

“corner of a foreign field That is for ever England”

-enjambment connects foreign field with England and presents the ease of the transformation

how does brooke suggest england will stake claim on land and they are superior

“in that rich earth a richer dust concealed”

-being english creates superiority and power over foreign earth

how does brooke personify england and suggest soldier is a child of it

“a dust whom England bore”

how does brooke suggest england is a genrous mother

“gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam

how does brooke suggest hew owes his identity to england

“a body of england”

how does brooke evoke ideas of baptism in the soldier

“washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home”

-england’s essence permeates her people

how does brooke suggest he thinks sacrificing himslef for england will cleanse his soul

“and think this heart,all evil shed away”

-purifying

how does brooke end the poem saing england has given him his character and values

“laughter,learnt of friends ; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven”

-contrast of horrors of war

-sense of harmony in enhanced by sibilance and alliteration

how is brooke end the poem with showing him to be very patriotic

“english heaven”

-thinks even heaven is english and that people form england are superior

who wrote to autumn

John Keats

what kind of poet was Keats

-second generation Romantic poet

-sought inspiration from natural world

why did Keats write to Autumn

-after a walk in the country side

how has Keats suffered terrible loss

-lost his brother to tuberculosis

-lost his parents at a young age

what theme does Keats explore during the poem

-growth and maturation

-inevitbale death

how is to autumn ironic

Keats was in the autumn of his own life as 6 months after conmpleting it, he got symptoms of tuberculosis

what is to autumn in the from of

-an ode

-verse praising or gloryfying an event or individual

how does keats suggest autumn is female

ideas of fertility

-can only work with help of “marturing sun” who is male

what is the base meter of to atumn

iambic pentameter

what do the three stanzas present in to Autumn

-change and transtiton

-S1: morning, late summer/early autumn -ripeness -taste and touch

-S2:afternoon, mid autumn -rest after harvest -sight and smell

-S3:twilight, late autumn/almost inter -inevitable decline -hearing