Poetry

Cards (34)

  • Ozymandias quote
    cold command
  • Ozymandias quote
    my name is ozymandias king of kings
  • ozymandias structure

    sonnet
    iambic pentameter
    traditionally love poem
  • ozymandias context

    Was a king
    In Egypt
    He was evil
    Agressive
  • London language
    charted
  • london language

    Marks of weakness marks of woe
  • London language
    every
  • london language
    mind forged manacles i hear
  • london structure
    HEAR
    hear- physical and mental
  • london context

    French revolt
    unhappy with society
    Political unrest
  • london context
    chimney-sweepers cry - child labour
    church- reglion
    bloof down palace walls- royalty to blame
  • london theme
    charted Thames does flow- natural things manipulated
  • london theme

    blights with plagues- abuse
    stis
    marriage full of misery
  • Exposure language quote

    merciless iced winds that knife us
    • personification
    • killing
    • weather more harm than combat
    • relentless
  • exposure language quote
    mad gusts tugging on wire
    • pathetic fallacy
    • weather gives emotion
  • exposure language quotes
    slowly our ghosts drag home
    • metaphor
    • non existent
    • close to death
    • souless
    • not the men they were
  • exposure structure
    but nothing happens
    • war isn't constant
    • fighting is rare
    • repitition , war hasnt damaged them its the exposure of weather
  • remains theme quote

    i see every round as it rips through his life
    • personification
    • simile
    • change to firsr
  • remains language
    his blood shadow stays on the street
    • metaphor
    • ptsd
    • mental image
    • haunting
  • remains language
    probably armed, possibly not
    • repotition
    • theme of guilt
    • innocent people killed
  • remains language
    his bloody life in my bloody hands
    • repetition
    • literal
    • curing himself and the man
  • remains theme quote

    tosses his guts
    • uncarring
    • visual imagery
    • thrown away like rubbish
    • daunting
  • remains theme quotes

    hes here in my head when i close my eyes
    • ptsd
    • alitteratoon ‘h’
    • mental/physical help needed
  • remains context
    War in Iraq
    remains of bodies
    remains of memories
  • checking out me history language
    Dem tell me
    • phonetic spelling accent
    • government, school, teachers
    • repition
  • checking out me history language
    bandage up me eye with me own history
    • metaphor
    • kept in dark
    • light vs. dark
    • cover up identity
  • checking out me history language
    i carving out me identity
    • teaching himself
    • no one would help
    • feels different from otherwa
  • checking out me history structure
    lines 10-20 pushed in
    • pushed away from margin
    • margainalised
    • font change
    • moved to one side
    • pushed away like his history
  • Kamikaze language quote

    strung out like bunting
    • simile
    • imagery of Japan
  • kamikaze quote 

    a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
    • tuna is metaphor for emperor of Japan
    • sounds sinister
    • realises isnt right
  • kamikaze theme wuote 

    as though he never existed
    • simile
    • dishonour
    • shame
    • disownment
  • kamikaze theme quote

    The dark.. the sun
    • theme of light and dark
    • beginning to see the light
    • understanding
    • seeing the truth
  • kamikaze context
    Suicide mission
    Japan
    ’journey into history’ - never meant to return
    Japan manipulated and brainwashed
  • kamikaze structure
    enjambment throughout - thought process, muddled
    Third person- changes identity
    Italics- pushed away from country