Information Cards

• Summary

  -a duke was unhappy with his wife

  -he showed a visitor his wife on a photo

  -he hints at the killing of his wife
• Poet's Messages

  -carving of power

  -criticising patriarchal power

  -ridiculing people obsessed with status
• Concepts

  -Power

  -Inequality

  -Pride

  -Hubris
• Structure

  -cyclical structure and ends with commands

  -speech marks talking to her

  -dramatic monologue
• Context

  -family name = important

  -women demonstrated as objects
• Comparison

  Ozymandias - both have fall from power