Poetry- power and conflict cluster

Ozymandias- written by Percy Shelley

• “whose frown and a wrinkled lip, and a sneer of cold command”

• “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair

• “Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare”

London- written by William Blake

• “I wander through each chartered streets, near where the charted Thames does flow”

• “The mind-forged manacles I hear”

• “Runs in blood down the palace walls”

• “Blasts the new-born infant’s tear”

Extract from the Prelude

• “It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”

• “A huge peak, black and huge”

• “Upreared it’s head. I struck and struck again”

• But huge and might forms, that do not live Like living men,”

My last duchess- written by Robert Browning

• “That’s my Last Duchess painted on the wall, as if she was alive”

• “The curtain I have drawn for you”

• “My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody’s gift”

• “I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together”

Storm on the Island

• “We are prepared”

• “Spits like a tame cat Turned savage”

• “Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”

War photographer

• “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”

• “Running children in nightmare heat”

• “A hundred agonies in black-and-white

Poems that link (Poem Comparison)

• Power of nature: Ozymandias, Storm on the island, Prelude

• Power of man: My Last Duchess, London

• Lack of power: London, Storm on the Island, Prelude

• Fear: Storm on the island, Prelude

• Suffering: War photographer, London

• Dictatorship: My last Duchess, Ozymandias, London

How to compare poems

• Introduction

• Use What, How, Why paragraphs

Unseen poetry

• Title

• What does the title imply

• Imagery (Langauge)

• Structure

• Tone of the poem