Quotes

• Ozymandias: “I met a traveller from an antique land”
• Ozymandias: “a shattered visage lies”
• Ozymandias: “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!’ ”
• Ozymandias: “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away”
• The Manhunt: “after passionate nights and intimate days”
• The Manhunt: “only then would he let me trace [...] / only then would he let me explore” and “only then would he let me trace / the frozen river which ran through his face” (full rhymes sound positive)
• The Manhunt: “the rungs of his broken ribs” (comparing ribs to rungs of a ladder implies recovery is a slow step-by-step process)
• The Manhunt: “a sweating, unexploded mine / buried deep in his mind”
• The Manhunt: “[...] and closed. / Then and only then, did I come close.” (only sentence that lies on one line, emphasises wife’s realisation that psychological scars are worse than physical ones) (last lines don’t fully rhyme, giving a muted ending - the speaker has made progress but can only “come close”)
• The Soldier: “think only this of me” (addresses the reader of the poem using an imperative - reader feels responsible for carrying out the soldier’s request)
• The Soldier: “Dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware” (England is personified as a nurturing mother)
• The Soldier: “A body of England’s, breathing English air” (repetition of ‘England’ shows his love for the country is overwhelming)
• The Soldier: “all evil shed away” (Death is purifying and brings the soldier closer to “the eternal mind” (God) - Religious Imagery)
• The Soldier: “In hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
• AIAG: “The Summer lapsed away” (the narrator quickly links summer and grief. This hold throughout the poem)
• AIAG: “As imperceptibly as Grief” (lines are short, suggesting acceptance on the speaker’s part) (simile)
• AIAG: “A Quietness distilled” and “Sequestered Afternoon” (summer and grief are associated with a sense of stillness and being closed off from the world)
• AIAG: “The Morning foreign shone” (‘Morning’ symbolises the end of grief, but the fact it’s ‘foreign’ suggests that it feels strange to leave grief behind)
• AIAG: “Guest, that would be gone” (‘Morning’ is like a guest who wants to like. Suggests that everything has come to an end, even if you don’t want it to. Melancholy tone)
• AIAG: “Our Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful.” (‘Our’ includes the reader) (the [personification of] ‘escape’ of summer suggests that grief has also faded away. Summer escapes ‘Into the Beautiful’ which hints that at the end of grief is ultimately positive) (full stop at end of poem reflects the finality of summer)
• London: ABAB regular rhyme scheme - could reflect the sound of his feet as he trudges around. Unbroken and seems to echo the relentless misery of the city
• London: “Marks of weakness, marks of woe” and “In every [...]” x3 (repetition and anaphora emphasises bleakness - everyone is affected by despair and there is no relief)
• London: “I wander thro’ each charter’d street” (first personal, personal and real) (‘wander’ - powerless to change what’s happening) (‘each’ - whole city is affected)
• London: “Where the charter’d Thames does flow” (even powerful and natural features are under human control)
• London: “the youthful Harlot’s curse / Blasts the new born Infant’s tear” (contrasts youth and prostitution) (innocence of newborn babies is lost immediately - society damages its members)
• London: “Marriage hearse” (oxymoron links happy image of marriage with death - everything is destroyed)
• Sonnet 43: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
• Sonnet 43: “I love thee freely, as men strive for Right” (loves him effortlessly) (love is morally right) (anaphora of “I love thee”)
• Sonnet 43: “Feeling out of sight / For the end of Being” (enjambment suggests speaker is overflowing with love)
• Sonnet 43: “if God choose, / I shall but love thee better after death” (love is eternal, will outlast Earth) (speaker hoping for God’s support suggests she believes in their love’s purity)