Poetry

• Metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things without using "like" or "as".
• Ozymandias - Structure & Form

  Sonnet - it is written in the form of a love poem; he is in love with himself
• Ozymandias method

  “king of kings”- power is transient. Ramessess was powerful FOR A TIME. Arrogant and powerful enough to challenge other rulers but destroyed by nature.
• Storm in the island-structure and form

  single stanza- reflects lack of breaks and relentlessness of the storm -> cyclical
• Storm on the island - method

  “ exploding comfortably“- oxymoron juxtaposes feeling of safety and fear in your home -> fear in your home and safe place
• Storm on the island- language

  ” the wind dives and strafes invisibly“ - semantic field of war compels reader to understand the war with the weather.
• Exposure- structure and form

  Abbac rhyme scheme. repetitive monotonous rhyme scheme, illustrates how the weather is continuous. ALT-> reflection on man’s experience and build suspension for an anticlimax.
• Exposure- language

  ” dawn massing in the east her melancholy army” personification of dawn-> semantic field of war -> dawn is usually good (irony), attacked by dawn