THEMES

• Power of humans - Ozymandias + COMH ( Shelly and Agard)

  • Power display

  My name is Ozymandias, king of kings + Dem tell me wha dem want tell me

  • Power is abused

  A sneer of cold command + Bandage up me eye

  • Power is lost by Ozymandias / gained by Agard

  Round the decay of that colossal wreck, I carving out me identity
• Power of Nature - Exposure + Storm on the island (Owen + Heany)

  • imposes the same threat as people

  Merciless iced east wind that knive us + we are bombarded

  • Unexpected power

  Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow + spits like a tame cat turned savage

  • Power has irregular impacts

  Misery of dawn + Strange, it's a huge nothing that we fear
• Conflict effects/reality of war - War photo + remains ( Duffy + Armitage)

  • War is violent and aggressive, leading to trauma

  Running children in a nightmare heat + I see every round as it rips through his life

  • Suffering of war is constantly before them (physically, mentally)

  Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows + he's here in my head when I close my eyes

  • Strong effects of war

  Home again to ordinary pain + drink ... drugs won't flush him out
• Loss - London + Emigree (Blake + Rumens)

  • loss of joy, she loses her joy because her country is apart

  in every cry of man, in every infant's cry of fear + There once was a country... I left it as a child

  • things which were good (churches, countries) are now corrupt

  every black'ning church appals + sick with tyrants

  • loss of happiness in people due to corruption, they're melancholy

  marks of weakness, marks of woe + I have no passport, there is no way back at all
• Memory - War photo + Remains (Duffy+Armitage)

  • constantly reminded by suffering at war

  spools of suffering set out in ordered rows + he's here in my head when I close my eyes

  • Grotesque and sad effects of war

  A hundred agonies in black and white + I see every round as it rips through his life

  • Remembering the innocent lives lost in war

  running children in a nightmare heat + his bloody life in my bloody hands
• Anger - London + COMH (Blake+Agard)

  • their anger for oppressive, corrupt systems that dictate their lives

  every black'ning church appals + dem tell me dem tell me wha dem want tell me

  • children are deprived of opportunities and knowledge (about Agard's culture)

  in every infant's cry of fear + Bandage up me eye

  • the anger and criticism of Blake makes no change, Agard does

  the mind forged manacles I hear + I carving out me own identity
• Guilt - War Photo + Remains (Duffy+Armitage)

  • guilty because they cannot help innocents: worker cannot offer help, soldier must fight for country

  running children in a nightmare heat + His bloody life in my bloody hands

  • despite their doubt and guilt they can't control the situation

  spools of suffering set out in ordered rows + Probably armed, possibly not

  • Becomes numb due to guilt, cannot become numb

  Home again to ordinary pain + drugs won't flush him out
• Fear - The prelude, Storm on the island (Wordsworth+Heany)

  • fear of nature's hostility

  a huge peak, black and huge ... upreared its head + spits like a tame cat turned savage

  • fear is created from exaggeration of power

  the grim shape towered up between me and the stars + we are bombarded

  • fear of nature's strengths effects on the mind

  huge and mighty forms were a trouble to my dreams + it is a huge nothing that we fear
• Pride - Ozymandias + the emigree (Shelley+Rumens)

  • display of pride (of his status) (of her country)

  My name is Ozymandias, king of kings + branded by an impression of sunlight

  • Pride creates negativity (as a quality) (in mind)

  A sneer of cold command + sick with tyrants

  • Pride and honour is lost

  Round the decay of that colossal wreck + that child's vocabulary ... it tastes of sunlight
• Identity - Checking out me history + the Emigree (Agard+Rumens)

  • identities cannot resonate with them (Agard's race deemed unimportant) (due to corruption)

  Dem tell me dem tell me wha dem want tell me + sick with tyrants

  • their identity causes them ill health and pain (which is 'healed' by oppressor's systematic racism) (her identifying with her country)

  Bandage up me eye + branded by an impression of sunlight

  • Agard is proud of his identity, Rumens is confused and ashamed

  I carving out me own identity + That child's vocabulary ... I can't get it off my tongue . It tastes of sunlight