power and conflict poetry

power and conflict poetry

1. ozymandias

   • themes
     • power of nature
     • political power and the power of state
     • relationships between power culture and identity
   • key quotations
     • "king of kings"
     • "sneer of cold command"
     • "look on my words ya mighty and dispear"
     • "the lone and level sands stretch far away"
     • "shattered visage"
     • "collosal wreck"
   • language techniques
     • imagery
     • alliteration
   • structure techniques
     • sibilance
     • sonnett
     • irony
     • juxtaposition
     • volta
     • 1st person
   • tone and mood
     • arrogance
     • pride

2. london

   • theme
     • marriage and relationships
     • political power and the power of state
   • key quotations
     • "the marriage hearse"
     • "marks of weakness,marks of woe"
     • "every black'ning church appals"
     • "mind-forged manicles"
   • language techniques
     • juxtaposition
     • anaphora
     • oxymoron
     • metaphors
   • structure techniques
     • iambic pentamter
     • dramatic monnologue
     • repitition
     • 1st person
     • ballad
   • tone and mood
     • fustration
     • anger
     • dispear
     • powerless
     • hopless

3. my last dutchess

   • theme
     • marriage and relationships
   • key quotations
     • "will't you please sit and look at her"
     • "heart? how should i say?too soon made glad"
     • "much the same smile? This grew i gave command"
     • "my gift of a nine-hundred years old name"
     • "she looked on and her looks went everywhere"
   • language techniques
     • reputition
   • structure techniques
     • dramatic monologue
     • enjambment
     • cesura
     • 1st person
     • rhyming couplets
   • tone and mood
     • pride
     • jealousy

4. extract from the prelude

   • themes
     • power of nature
   • key quotations
     • "huge peak, black and huge"
     • "were the troubles to my dreams"
     • "(led by her)"
     • "boat went heaving through the water like a swan"
     • "like one who rows proud of his skills"
   • language techniques
     • similes
     • imagry
     • conjuctions
     • personification
   • structure techniques
     • enjambment
     • blank verse
     • imabic pentmater
     • 1st person
     • romantic
     • autobiographic
   • tone and mood
     • nostagic
     • confidence
     • pride
     • fear
     • reflection

5. charge of the light brigade

   • theme
     • politicla power and the power of state
     • violence of warfare and its effect on individuals
   • key quotations
     • "half a league, half a league"
     • "someone had blund'rd"
     • "valley of death...jaws of death...mouth of hell"
     • "when can their glory fade?"
   • language techniques
     • personification
     • imagry
     • repititon
   • structure techniques
     • direct speech
     • 3rd person
     • rhythm evokes the sound of horse hoofs galloping
     • biblical references
   • tone and mood
     • admiration
     • patriotism
     • horror

6. exposure

   • tone and mood
     • nihilism
     • hopeless
     • suffering
     • boredom
   • structure techniques
     • assonance
     • sibilance
     • half rhyme
     • circular structure
     • elipsis
     • 1st person
     • present tense
     • repitition
   • language techniques
     • metaphors
     • personification
     • imagery
     • alliteration
   • theme
     • power of nature
     • violence of warfare and its effect on individuals
   • key quoatations
     • "the merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
     • "slowly our ghosts drag us home"
     • "but nothing happens"
     • "on us all the doors are closed-we turn our back on the dying"

7. storm on the island

   • language techniques
     • simile
     • metaphor
     • juxtapostition
   • theme
     • power of nature
     • political power and the power of state
   • tone and mood
     • community
   • structure techniques
     • blank verse
     • sibilance
   • key quotations
     • "spits like a tame cat turned savage"
     • "exploding comfortably"
     • "strange its a huge nothing we fear"
     • "no trees no natural shelter

8. bayonet charge

9. remains

10. poppies

11. war photographer

12. tissue

13. the emigree

14. checking out me history