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  • my last duchess quotes
  • this grew i gave comands
    implies his power and carelessness of how he got his last duchess killed
  • as if she ranked my gift of a nine hundred year old name with anybodys gift

    hes jealous
  • willt please you sit and look at her
    rhetrical question,hes saying it as a question but really its a command
  • thats my last duchess on the wall

    the word my is a possesive pronoun shows he believed she belonged to him
  • looking as if she was alive
    nobody knew what had happened to her
  • her looks went everywhere
    hes jealous and paranoyed
  • she thanked men
    doesnt think she should thank any other men,jealousy
  • what is ozymandias about 

    a narrator meets a travellor who tells him about a statue of ozymandias ,statue lasted longer than him/nature is more powerful than man
  • what are the themes in ozymandias
    -power of humans
    -power of nature
    -rich and poor
  • what poems can compare to ozymandias
    london
    my last duchess
  • what is london about 

    a man walks through the streets of london and everyone is miserable,those in power dont help the poor
  • what are the themes of london

    -power
    -suffering
    -class system
    -experiences
  • poems to compare to london
    -ozymandias
    -my last duchess
  • what is the prelude about 

    a young boy steals a boat and feels very powerful. Nature at first is very gentle and calm but it changes to being very violent and threatening,which shows nature can be very unpredictable and is stronger than humans
  • themes
    -power of nature
    -memory
    -identity
    -experiences
  • poems to compare london to
    -ozymandias
    -my last duchess
  • Ozymandias
    Ramses II, ancient Egyptian pharaoh and king of kings
  • Irony
    Contrast between the king's boastful claim and the reality of his downfall
  • Symbolism
    Use of statue and desert to represent the transience of human achievement
  • Fleeting nature of human achievement
    Contrast between the king's boastful claim and the reality of his downfall
  • Prelude
    Poem by William Wordsworth, exploring the relationship between the individual and nature
  • mr birling
    for higher costs and lower prices
  • mr birling
    it’s her own fault
  • mr birling
    a man has to mind his own business
  • mr birling
    the titanic-unsinkable absolutely unsinkable
  • mr birling
    it’s my duty to keep labour costs down
  • mr birling
    higher costs lower prices
  • mr birling
    dominates conversations,thinks he is superior to lower classes
  • mrs birling
    i only help deserving cases
  • mrs birling
    i will not be held responsible
  • mrs birling
    i did nothing im ashamed of
  • mrs birling
    as if a girl in that sought would refuse money
  • gerald
    she looked young and fresh
  • gerald
    i insisted on daisy movinv into those rooms
  • gerald
    i didn’t feel for her as she felt for me
  • gerald
    she better let me take her out of there
  • eric
    she was pretty and a good sport
  • eric
    i threatened to make a row
  • eric
    i don’t remember,that’s the hellish thing