poetry

• Ozymandias

  A ruler/pharaoh who had a statue built of himself to show off his power
• Ozymandias

  • His empire and statue have decayed over time, showing that nature will always defeat man's power
  • Nothing lasts forever
• Ozymandias loves

  • Himself
  • The idea of power
• Ozymandias: '"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings"'
• Shattered Visage

  The statue is broken into many pieces, beyond repair
• The poem Ozymandias shows how nature and time defeat even the most powerful rulers
• London: '"Mind-forg'd manacles I hear"'
• London: '"Marks in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe"'
• The poem London presents the dark side of the city, in contrast to its image of power and progress
• When analysing markets, a range of assumptions are made about the rationality of economic agents involved in the transactions
• The Wealth of Nations was written

  1776
• Rational

  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one
• Rational agents will select the choice which presents the highest benefits
• Producers act rationally by

  Selling goods/services in a way that maximises their profits
• Workers act rationally by

  Balancing welfare at work with consideration of both pay and benefits
• Governments act rationally by

  Placing the interests of the people they serve first in order to maximise their welfare
• Rationality in classical economic theory is a flawed assumption as people usually don't act rationally
• Marginal utility

  The additional utility (satisfaction) gained from the consumption of an additional product
• The poem is about a group of soldiers waiting for a battle to begin, but before the battle nothing happens, yet so much happens as they fight a war against nature that ultimately destroys them
• Sibilance

  The repetition of 's' sounds
• The sibilance mimics

  The movement and stabbing of the wind
• The 'mad gusts' personification

  Suggests nature is angry with the soldiers
• The repetition of 'nothing happens' juxtaposes the idea that so much is actually happening as the soldiers are being destroyed by nature
• The final quote about the 'bearing party' not recognizing the faces foreshadows the ultimate downfall of the soldiers, who will die from the elements rather than battle
• The poem 'Storm on the Island' is also symbolic, representing the problems and divisions in Northern Ireland at the time
• The poem begins with confidence 'we are prepared'

  But ends with confusion 'it's a huge nothing that we fear'
• The poem suggests you can never truly prepare for war, as there are elements beyond your control
• The soldiers are helpless against the attack of nature, just as they would be helpless against the attack of their own government</b>
• use too that point in the poem is very powerful these people guys pummeling is attacking the house and it foreshadows their downfall
• Why does it foreshadow the downfall

  Because at this moment in the text it realizes that as human beings they spend so much time looking out following the news doing what they've been told hate that person forget that person never realizing that the same people that have taught you to hate the same people that have taught you to live a certain way when the time is right they will attack you as well
• Nobody is safe from this attack
• When the war with nature begins what can you do nothing you just sit tight and wait to hope and pray to God that it doesn't destroy you completely
• Suddenly he awoke and was running raw in raw themed hockey he sweat heavy stumbling across the field of clothes towards a Green Hedge that dazzling with rifle fire
• Hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
• The Patriotic tear that had bring in his eye sweating like molting iron from the center of his chest in bewilderment
• Then he almost stopped in what called Clockwork the stars of the Nations was he the hand pointing at that second he was running like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running
• And his foot hung like statutory in mysteried then the shot slashed forwards threw up a yellow hair that roll like a fling and crawl in a threshing Circle his mouth opened silent his eyes standing out
• He plunged path with his bayonet towards the Green Hedge King on a human dignity Etc dropped like luxuries and yelling alarm to get out of that blue crackling ear his terrorist touchy Dynamite
• This poem is about a soldier who wakes up and he is in the middle of a battle and he runs and as he's running he's thinking what am I doing here why am I even here and then by the end of the poem he realizes that everything he's been sold is a lie everything he's been fighting for is a lie
• Quotes: 1) smacking the belly out of the air 2) jumped up in the dark and runs 3) dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm