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15 Cards in this Set
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Growing up |
“It doesn’t matter, the whole thing is a game” “Talk of oxbridge” “How the hell do you expect to get a job when you never listen” |
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Gender roles |
“The house is your domain” “You’ve not had much of a life with me” |
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Money and Social Class |
“It’s a pretty big house isn’t it? It’s a pity it’s so big” “Talk of oxbridge” “I have got plenty of money- I don’t want your money” |
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Friendship |
“Do you want to be blood brothers” “My mummy doesn’t let me play down here” “I wish I could still believe in that blood brother stuff” |
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Fate and Destiny |
“Never put new shoes on the table” “The Devil’s got your number” “If either twin knew they were once a pair, they shall immediately die” |
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Ozymandias |
“Sneer of cold command” “Look on my work ye mighty and despair” “King of kings” “Nothing beside remains”
Written in a sonnet with loose iambic pentameter. Rhyme scheme is irregular, symbolises broken statue. |
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Exposure |
“Merciless iced east winds” “Mad gusts”-personification “Night is silence, silent” “Fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
Poem uses repetition to create on going sense of waiting and boredom. Had para-rhyme showing words to rhyme but sounding wrong creating unsettledness. |
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Remains |
“Rips through his life” “Sort of inside out” “Probably armed, possibly not” “End of story, except not really”
Written in 8 stanzas, last of which is a couplet which leaves poem on dramatic event. Does not rhyme and has conversational asides to emphases natural speech. |
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Kamikaze |
“Full of powerful incantations” “Journey into history” “Dark shoal of fishes” “Which had been the better way to die”
Poem changes to italic during penultimate stanzas. Constant structure uses regular syllable pattern drifting up and down which gives poem nostalgia. |
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Prelude |
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Charge of the light brigade |
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Bayonet charge |
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Storm on the island |
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