Power and Conflict Poetry

• "Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the dessert."

  - Ozymandias
• "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command..." - ozymandias
• "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;" - ozymandias
• "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains." - Ozymandias
• "boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away."
• Structure Ozymandias
• Form Ozymandias
• "I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow" - London
• "And mark in every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe." - London
• "The mind forged manacles I hear... how the chimney sweepers cry... every blacknin'g church appals" - London
• "The hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls." - London
• "Blasts the newborn infants tear and blights with plagues the marriage hearse."
• London Structure
• London Form
• "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall looking as if she were alive. I call that peice a wonder, now : "
• "sir twas not her husbands prescence only, called that spot of joy into the Duchess cheek"
• "as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred years old name with anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame..." - My last duchess
• "This grew; I gave commands: then all smiles stopped together." - My last duchess
• Structure In my last duchess
• Form in My Last Duchess
• "We are prepared: We build our houses squat." - Storm on the Island
• "Blast. you know what i mean - leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale..." - Storm on the island
• "Spits like a tame cat turned savage." - storm on the island
• "We just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly."

  - storm on the island
• "We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear..."
• Structure in Storm on the Island :
• Form in Storm On The Island :
• "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east Winds that knive us..." - Exposure
• "The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow..." - Exposure
• "Less deadly than the air that shudders Black with snow" - Exposure
• "We turn our back to the dying.../ For love of god seems dying." -Exposure
• "But nothing happens" - Exposure
• Structure in Exposure :
• Form in Exposure :
• "One summer evening (led by her)" - The prelude
• "With purpose of its own and measured motion like a living thing, strode after me" - The prelude
• "Stole my way back to the covert of the willow tree." - The prelude
• "The horizons bound, a huge peak black and huge." - The prelude
• "But Huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men" -The prelude
• Structure in The Prelude :