Poems

• Ozymandias


  A ruler/pharaoh who had a statue built 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


  A poem that shows the dark side of London, the capital of the British Empire, which is seen as a symbol of power and progress
• London: '"Mind-forg'd manacles I hear"'
• London: '"Marks in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe"'
• The poem London presents a contrasting view of the capital, showing the suffering and oppression of the people
• 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
• If you add up marginal utility for each unit you get total utility
• 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
• Poem


  • Personification
  • Sibilance
  • Juxtaposition
• Personification


  The winds are described as merciless and knifing, giving them human-like qualities
• Sibilance


  The repeated 's' sounds mimic the movement of the wind
• The poem begins


  With the soldiers being destroyed by nature, unable to defeat something they can't see or fight
• Personification


  The wind is described as 'mad', giving it human emotion and aggression
• Simile


  Compares the movement of the wire to the twitching of men trapped in brambles, showing the soldiers' suffering
• The repetition of 'nothing happens' juxtaposes the idea that so much is actually happening to the soldiers as they are battered by nature
• The final quote about the 'bearing party' not recognizing the faces foreshadows the soldiers' ultimate downfall from being frozen to death, not from battle
• The poem 'Storm on the Island' is also symbolic, representing the problems and divisions in Northern Ireland at the time
• The poem begins confidently

  But ends in confusion, as the speaker realizes they cannot prepare for the uncontrollable forces of nature
• Personification


  The wind is personified as something that 'pummels' the house, foreshadowing the downfall of the soldiers
• The poem's form is an epic, as it describes a significant historical event
• 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
• The vulture here is important because the water here shifts to the idea of them being absolutely helpless
• 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