Power of nature poems(power and conflict)

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  Thesis-1 (beginning or introduction to both poems)

  Paragraph 1-context and language techniques(differences or similarities)

  Paragraph 2-form

  Paragraph 3-structure and the similarities
• Theme-conflict between man and nature
• "Storm on the Island" - the speaker is an observer who describes what he sees.
• "Storm on the Island" - the poem has no title, but it's called "storm on the island". The storm is personified as if it were alive.
• "Storm on the Island" - the poet uses metaphors such as "the sea was like a beast", "the wind howled through the trees", "the waves crashed against the shore", etc.
• "Storm on the Island" - the poet uses similes such as "the rain fell down like tears from heaven", "the lightning flashed across the sky like a sword", "the thunder roared like a lion", etc.
• "Storm on the Island" - the poet uses similes such as "the rain fell down like tears from heaven". This is an example of hyperbole.
• Power of nature poems

  • Ozymandias
  • The Prelude(stealing the boat)
  • Exposure
  • Storm on the island
  • Tissue
  • Kamikaze
• Key points of kamikaze

  • Nature is shown to be powerful, but it's power is not revered/ powerful but admired
• Form of kamikaze

  • Six line stanzas-tight and controlled structure
  • Freedom of expression-enjambment
  • Sees beauty of nature
• Kamikaze-"built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles"

  • statue of pebbles that mark graves"cairns" consider the consequences of death because beauty is more powerful
  • Nature beauty is precious and valuable shouldn't be ended prematurely
• Patriotism through Kamikaze 


  The speaker sees patriotsism within nature"like a huge flag"
• Kamikaze and The prelude

  Both speakers are forced to reconsider their perspective and consider the power and influence of nature
• Form kamikaze paragraph 3

  "Her father embarked at sunrise"

  Draws the reader and gives impression of adventure or discovery. Imagery about light

  "Which had been a better way to die"- it is a metaphor for the slience the father had to endure and emphasizes this regret and how she can't control it
• Structure-kamikaze

  Enjambment-"black crabs, feathery prawns"

  Sibilance-" shoals of fish"implies a sense of grace and peacefulness it makes the poem sound emotional
• Language techniques kamikaze

  "Full of powerful incantations" patriotic imagery- under the spell of propaganda

  "Bunting on a green blue transuclent sea"-Celebrating the honour he will bring to his community
• Summary of The prelude 


  Wood worth's childhood memory of stealing a boat.

  • A mountain by the lake grows far bigger than he thinks
  • He realises the monumental power of the nature the mountain has
• Ozymamdias quotations

  • "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
  • "Shattered visage lies"
  • "Sneer of cold command"
  • "Colossal wreck"
  • "King of kings"
• Ozymamdias summary

  • Concerns the discovery of a semi-destroyed and decaying statue, Ozymamdias and shows how power deteriorates and will not last forever
• Shelley

  • Anti-monarchy
  • Radical and romantic poet
• Irregular rhyme scheme of Ozymamdias

  • contrast with single stanza as the former suggests a lack of power and control of the ruler
• "boundless and bare" "lone and level"

  • use of alliteration serves to communicate the vast powerful extent of nature and its ability to outlive forms of power
• Ozymamdias as an representation

  • King George 111
  • And all figures of power
  • Allegory
  • Fall of the kings influence
• Ozymamdias and Tissue

  • Miss assignment of power to humans, not God
  • missassignment of power to leaders and individuals not nature
  • Both show a loss undermining human power
• Ozymamdias and My last duchess

  • Humanity pride is unfounded
  • Origin of pride is love for oneself and ones power
  • Pride and power leads to opression/inner conflict
• My last duchess quotations 


  "I gave commands then all smiles stopped together"

  "Nine-hundred year old name"

  "If they Durst"
• Analysis of My last duchess

  The poem is an exploration of jealousy and gendered expectations of women
• Summary of my last duchess


  The Italian duke who has supposedly killed his first wife.He displays a painting of his dead wife in his house and reveals to a visitor