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18 Cards in this Set
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The lone and level sands stretch far away |
Desert outlives the statue proving nature is more powerful than any human ever will be.-Ozymandias |
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Mind-forged manacles |
Restricted by their own minds to stop them from leaving. Nature vs nurture.- London |
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Hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls. |
Contrasts low class soldier and high class in the palace. References the French revolution. -London |
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Blights with plagues the marriage hearse |
Oxymoron shows even marriage is doomed. No escape from the misery and poverty- even the happiest marriage cannot escape the tragedies.-London |
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Led by her |
Ambiguous as is usual for the romantic poets. Could be referring to nature or the boat itself. (personification)-The Prelude |
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A huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared it's head. |
Metaphor personifies the mountain. Nature takes on the power the narrator once thought he had. Upreared gives it lifelike qualities, as if the mountain was a deadly monster.-The Prelude |
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By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. |
Shaken by this event , far less confident now. Haunted can't forget what he saw even when sleeping- The Prelude |
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How shall I say? |
Sounds like natural speech as he is addressing a silent companion in a dramatic monologue. -My Last Duchess |
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As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred years-old name with anybody's gift. |
Shows his pride. She should be grateful she is in his family now because he is superior of high status and very wealthy which is what he thinks matters. -My Last Duchess |
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I choose never to stoop |
He always remains superior to everyone and never lowers himself.- My Last Duchess |
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colossal wreck wreck, boundless and bare |
Colossal symbolises his large ego. 'Nothing beside remains' -Ozymandias |
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'' Look at my works, ye Mighty and despair!'' |
The tone of this is that it is powerful and authoritative (use of exclamation mark) but irony is that no one is listening. + is an allegory for the eventual end of power. -Ozymandias |
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Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, |
Every powerful man and women, and the idea that they two will drift away until they too are grains of sand. "Half-sunk" gives the idea of the sea, its as if the head is being reclaimed by a "unforgiving ocean of sand" The materials used are slowly reclaimed by nature, almost like a natural cycle of "Life and death" -Ozymandias |
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Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.. near them a shatter'd visage lies |
These lines describe an obscene image in the reader's head. Like the statue, the 'culture' that had produced the 'art' has been submerged or hidden by the sand. The partially submerged head symbolises the vanishing 'antique' culture and relativity to todays society. It also shows how art somehow finds a way to persist. -Ozymandias |
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''Every black'ning Church appalls |
Shows the dark side of the ''Church'' refusing to help innocent children, who are neglected. -London
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, |
Double dose of confinement here. (streets and the Thames)The poem announces its obsession with the theme early on, and implies that somebody (he doesn't say who) is trying to tame or confine nature itself—here represented by the Thames- London |
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...Her husband’s presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek |
The Duke is offended that the Duchess would take pleasure in anything other than him. Notice that the way she shows her pleasure is involuntary, (i.e., a blush counts as showing pleasure), but the Duke describes it as though it were a stain or taint, a "spot of joy." |
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Theirs but to do and die. |
The "doing" part is brave and exciting, all the charging and the slashing. Dying sets a depressing mood in the poem. Under all the heroism and the thrill of battle, we think there's a mournful note in this poem. Finally, this is about the slaughter of young men, who were full of hope and loyalty and strength. The idea of death is a major theme -Charge Of The Light Brigade |
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