Poetry

• Ozymandias - Structure & Form

  Sonnet - Ramessess II is in love with himself
• Ozymandias - Method

  ’Kings of kings’ - power is transient. Ramessess was powerful FOR A TIME. Arrogant and powerful enough to challenge other rulers but destroyed by nature
• Storm On the Island - Structure & Form

  single stanza - reflects the lack of breaks and relentlessness of the storm -> cyclical structure
• 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 & Form

  ABBAC rhyme scheme - repetitive monotonous rhyme scheme illustrates how the weather is continuos. ALT VIEW -> reflection of man’s experience and build momentum for an anti-climax
• 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