People/Place/Space

• As Imperceptibly as Grief: ‘‘As imperceptibly as grief the summer lapsed away' - Metaphor. Autumn is the death of summer. Sense of loss. Slow pace. Melancholy.
• As imperceptibly as grief: ‘a quietness distilled’ - Metaphor. Autumn is minimal, less than summer. Quietness and calm. Serene. Juxtaposes noise and life of summer. Focus on time and loss. Preparing for death.
• As imperceptibly as grief: ‘as Twilight long begun’ - Metaphor – gradual change, invevitable, slow and simple emergence of dusk
• As imperceptibly as grief: ‘without Wing or service of a Keel’ - Metaphor. Both “wing” and “keel” suggest something helpful used to travel. “Summer” leaves without aid of those things once again portrays how the seasonal changes are a cycle that has never been stopped.
• As imperceptibly as grief: ‘made her light escape into the Beautiful’ - Metaphor. Personification of autumn as going to heaven. Death as positive journey. Time passing seen as natural end to life, not being the end. Wistful and positive.
• Ozymandias: ‘a shattered visage lies’ - 'Shattered' is a adjective, immediate sense of his ruination, his power has gone. 'Lies', powerless, on the ground, weak, discarded by history.
• Ozymandias: ‘two vast and trunkless legs of stone’ - Trunkless, reiterates idea that power is transient. Legs, emphasise strength but with no ‘trunk’ there is nothing left of his power, nothing with which to rule. 'Vast', the scale of his power in his time
• Ozymandias: ‘sneer of cold command’ - Hard alliteration reflects the cruelty of a tyrannical ruler, 'Sneer' verb emphasises disdain for those he ruled over
• Ozymandias: ‘look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair’ - His arrogance emphasised again, Imperative tone.
• Ozymandias: ‘the lone and level sands stretch far away’ - the natural  world has more power than any human ruler, human power is transient ,a message of optimism in a dark time.