poetry

• Ozymandias by ...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The narrator meets a traveller...


  tells him about a statue in the desert
• Statue is of a King and ...


  His face is proud and arrogantly boasts about how powerful he is.
• However the statue has fallen down ...


  and crumbled away so that now only ruins remain
• Ozymandias - Pride


  Theme - The ruler was proud of what he'd achieved. He called for other rulers to admire him.
• Ozymandias - Arrogance


  The ruler believed he was the powerful ruler - nobody could compete with him. He was better
• Ozymandias - Time


  Human civilisations and achievements are insignificant compared to the passing of time.
• Ozymandias - Pride quote


  "look on my works, ye mighty..."
• Ozymandias - Arrogance quote


  "King of Kings"
• Ozymandias - Time quote


  "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck"
• London by ...


  William Blake
• The narrator is describing....


  a walk around London
• He says everywhere he goes...


  ... the people are affected by misery and despair
• This misery is relentless and ...


  no can escape it - not even the young and the innocent
• People in power (like the Church, the monarchy and wealthy landowners) seem to be...


  behind the problems, and do nothing to help the people in need.
• London - Anger


  Emotive language and repetition show the anger at the situation
• London - Hopelessness


  They appear hopeless because they are trapped in their own attitudes and not able to help themselves
• London - Anger quote


  "In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear..."
• London - Hopelessness quote


  "The mind-forged manacles I hear"
• My Last Duchess


  by Robert Browning
• The Duke proudly points out a portrait of...


  His former wife (The duchess) to a visitor
• The Duke was angered by...


  the Duchess's behaviour - she was friendly towards everyone, and treated him like everyone else.
• The Duke stopped...


  the Duchess's flirtatious behaviour, strongly hinting that he had her murdered.
• At the end the Duke is arranging...


  his next marriage
• My Last Duchess - Pride


  (Theme) The Duke is very proud of his possessions and status.
• My Last Duchess - Jealously


  (Theme) The Duke couldn't stand the way the Duchess treated him the same as everyone else.
• My Last Duchess - Power


  The Duke enjoys the control he has over the painting, however he didn't have the same control over his ex-wife.
• My Last Duchess - Pride Quote


  "My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
• My Last Duchess - Jealously Quote


  "She looked on, and her looks went everywhere."
• My Last Duchess - Power Quote


  "I gave commands ; Then all smiles stopped together."
• Storm on the Island by

  Seamus Heaney
• The narrator describes how a community thinks...


  it's well prepared for a coming storm
• As the poem goes on, their confidence starts to disappear as...


  the storm develops.
• The ending of the poem describes...


  the fear as the storm hits the island.
• Storm on the island - Safety


  (Theme) The first part of the poem shows that the community feel safe, and prepared for the storm
• Storm on the Island - Fear


  (Theme) This sense of security soon changes to fear, as familiar things change and become frightening.
• Storm on the Island - Helplessness


  The people can't do anything about their fear except wait for the storm to finish. Nature is presented as a powerful, relentless force.
• Storm on the Island - Safety Quote


  "We are prepared: we build our houses squat,"
• Storm on the Island -Fear Quote


  "It is a huge nothing that we fear."
• Storm on the Island - Helplessness Quote


  "strafes invisibly...we are bombarded by the empty air."