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anthology poems
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- 1OZYMANDIAS quote: "my name is ozymandias the king of kings" this connotes self admiration and vanity of the character the pronoun "my" highlight the vanity as it expresses that there is no one else on the earth grater and mightier than youOZYMANDIAS
quote :Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Shelley uses imagery to get the point that nothing of Ozymandias' is left. And even if it is, it's in thousands of pieces. ... Ozymandias is about the power of nature, but mostly the power of time. - 2LONDON the quote: "In every cry of every man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" The anaphora here paints a bleak picture. Everybody is enslaved by "mind-forg'd manacles," which is to say nobody is innocent anywhere. They are all enslaved to something: experience, pain, sorrowLONDON
"How the Chimney-sweeper's cry"
Chimney sweeps were children. Because of their job, they were very dirty, or "black," which is associated with everything but innocence. they're not described as covered in soot though they symbolise that in LONDON there is no remorse - 3THE PRELUDE THE quote "Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. In comparing our days to something that burns, Will paints a pretty bleak picture. Who wants to live a life that can be described as "smoky" and which consists of days that end with a "burnt-out" feeling that devours each day leaves nothing left at the end.THE PRELUDE
The speaker thinks our souls are full of tutt stuff because we are surrounded by tutt stuff. Our souls suffer as a result of our lives. and the environment we live day to day in hsowing how empty we are not noticing the unexplored beauty that is this earth. - 4MY LAST DUCHESS Sir, ’twas not Her husband’s presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek The Duke is offended that the Duchess would take pleasure in anything other than him. Notice that the way she shows her pleasure is involuntary, but the Duke describes it as though it were a stain or taint, a "spot of joy." as he dismisses the truthMY LAST DUCHESS
THAT’S my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive.
the Duke knows the difference between the living Duchess and her painting – but he doesn’t see it as much of a difference. It’s startling that he brings up the unusual circumstances of his previous wife’s death at the beginning of this conversation with a servant of the family he wants to marry into next. He’s a little bit obsessive bring back the undersatnding that he really only cares for himself - 5CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE half a league ahlf a league onward" he said. This line tells us pretty much all we need to know about the plot of this poem. The soldiers in the Light Brigade have to "charge for the guns." bad idea and the light Brigade knows it like riding your horse toward a bunch of cannon. Tennyson throws us right into the middle of this. helping the readerunderstand the uphill battle that they face and the underdog struggel that concedes themCHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered
More intense war descriptions. Just imagine what it would be like to hear the rumble of cannon firing at you, sounding just like thunder. they are not matched for such heavy artillery but they march on anyway They're on horseback, with nothing to protect them from the whizzing bullets and cannon fire. - 6BAYONET CHARGE "suddenly he awoke and was running - raw" the adverb makes us ask questions immediatly the adjective "Raw" shows that the seams of his uniform are harsh open and uncomfortable much like himself showing he is unprepared mentally and physicallyBAYONET CHARGE
The quote "His terror touchy dynamite" connotes his emotions and how their explosive and just ready to boil over and the assonance of the T's give give the audience an imprinted idea that the time is ticking tick tock his life is running down. - 7REMAINS The quote somebody else and somebody else shows that each regiment and individual person on the force is just another weapon or solider tambien this quote shows that the soldiers in question are machines and they kill regularlyREMAINS
The quote tosses his guts back into his body the verb tosses shows that they have no cares for the murder they have just committed without proof that he was even a harm to the soldiers they kill him in an instant showing no remorse again giving the impression and they don't look back on what they have done with any emotion. - 8POPPIES “Eskimo kiss” is when people rub noses together as an equivalent to kissing because Eskimos' lips aren’t often exposed in the cold. The idea of a cold kiss may also suggest death. The words ‘graze’ and ‘nose’ are commonly kids phrases, similar sounds that create a memorable rhythm, like a children’s playground song emphasisig the remenisant behaviour the mother is feeling as her boy is off to war.POPPIES
Armistice Sunday is the 11th November, commemorated every year to remember the formal agreement between allies and Germans to stop fighting in World War One. Poppies grew on Flanders fields and they’ve become a symbol to commemorate those who died. - 9WAR PHOTOGRAPHER The quote with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows connotes the personification the rolls of film as the emphasis of endless suffering always with her and the way carol saw it all unfold through the lense in her camera letting the reader feel that helpless feeling that duffy is feelin .WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
the quote "a hundred agonies black and white from which the editor will choose what will be the best fit for Sundays supplement" the endless agonies are they really the best because they will make the companies money whats really the best?
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