power and conflict/ ozymandias first

• my name is ozymandias, king of kings -ozy
• sneer of cold command- ozy
• colossal wreck -ozy
• lone and level sands stretch far -ozy
• wrinkled lip -ozy
• structure of ozy- mixture of petrachen sonnet and shakespearen sonnet/ iambic pentameter/ irregular rhyme scheme ( to highlight breakdown of pharohs control)
• context of ozy- discovery of a destroyed and decaying statue of Ramesses ll , shows how power doesn't last forever Shelley- romantic poet, opposed British monarchy
• key ideas of ozy -human power goes but art/nature will survive , human power is transient to time and nature, warning power wont last and we will die
• mind-forged manacles -london
• youthful harlot's curse - london
• the marriage hearse - london
• marks of weakness, marks of woe - london
• hapless soldiers sigh - london
• structure of london- iambic tetrameter/cyclical structure/ABAB rhyme scheme and quatrains - shows the relentless oppression, suffering is never ending, shows the goverment has complete control of lower classes, cant get out of the cycle spells out HEAR- third stanza- shows Blake wants them to listen to the suffering around them.
• context of london- blake has radical political views and saw london as corrupted and greedy. poem exposes how bad london is
• key ideas of london- london is a bleak, depressing, dangerous place , suffering due to abuse of power is a never ending cycle , critises the authorities
• upreared its head. I struck and struck - prelude
• small circles glittering idly in the moon - prelude
• trouble to my dreams - prelude
• (led by her) - prelude
• in grave - prelude
• structure of prelude- single stanza emphasies the overwhelming power of nature leads reader to feel breathless, cyclical structure emphasises the internal change , enjambment to make poem feel like a stream of consiousness
• context of prelude- wordsworth was a romantic writer he lived with relatives whom he had a bad relationship with, looks at beauty of nature
• key ideas of the prelude- criticises arrogance of human assumption when nature is superior, attempt to control nature, a warning to society that transformed fields to factories, hes scared of his own insignificance