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47 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. |
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. |
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. |
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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Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse, thought a rarity |
He thinks his new wife should be tamed too as even Neptune who is rarely tamed is in his house. Threatening tone. |
My last duchess |
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Valley of death |
Biblical reference shows their mission is of biblical importance. Also makes it seem sinister and dangerous. |
The charge of the light brigade |
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Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die: |
Obediently follow as is their duty despite knowing they will die. Shows dedication to their country. |
The charge of the light brigade |
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When can their glory fade? |
Rhetorical question. Shows amazement at their bravery and the honour they receive because of it. |
The charge of the light brigade |
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But nothing happens |
Repeated throughout the poem. Shows passage of time. Irony that they are suffering so much but nothing is actually happening. |
Exposure |
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Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow |
Natural conditions are more deadly than the human ones . Makes them immune to fear of bullets. Even nature is corrupted. |
Exposure |
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All closed: on us the doors are closed |
Trapped. No return and nowhere else for them to go. In limbo between living and dying |
Exposure |
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For love of god seems dying |
Losing hope of everything. War is dehumanising them so even religion seems pointless. |
Exposure |
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We are prepared: we build our houses squat, |
Powerful preparation. Makes them seem strong |
Storm on the island |
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Spits like a tame cat |
Simile shows nothing can be fully tamed. Also that the storm seems worse than it is ( bark worse than its bite) |
Storm on the island |
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It is a huge nothing that we fear |
Oxymoron. With courage they can accept the outcome and see the bigger picture as its not as bad as it seems. |
Storm on the island |
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A green hedge that dazzled with rifle fire |
Juxtaposes rural countryside with the violent scenes of war |
Bayonet charge |
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King , honour, human dignity , etcetera dropped like luxuries |
Morals, bravery aren't worth it. He forgets all his ideals as he saves himself as they seem insignificant now |
Bayonet charge |
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His terror's touchy dynamite |
It is out of his control, he could die at any minute. |
Bayonet charge |
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Probably armed, possibly not. |
Uncertainty. He knows nothing about him but is just acting on instinct. Repeated later on to show his guilt about what he did. |
Remains |
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Tosses his guts back into his body then he's carted off in the back of a lorry |
Mark of dignity (tiny gesture) juxtaposed with indignity of being carted off which is the reality of war |
Remains |
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And the drink and the drugs won't flush him out |
Self destruction but even that can't ease his mind and guilt |
Remains |
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His bloody life in my bloody hands |
Reference to Macbeth. He can't forget the trauma so it's leaving a physical mark on him. |
Remains |
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After you'd gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage. |
Ambiguous time frame. His freedom leaving home for the first time. Now he will experience danger. |
Poppies |
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The dove pulls freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch. |
Contrasts something small and beautiful in a vast space. |
Poppies |
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Playground voice |
Shows she still thinks of him as a child |
Poppies |
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He a priest preparing to intone a mass |
Implies biblical importance to what he is doing. |
War photographer |
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Did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. |
Contrasts the peace at home to the danger in the war torn countries where he works. |
War photographer |
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A hundred agonies in black and white |
Tragedies condensed to just a few pictures doesn't do justice to the reality. |
War photographer |
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They do not care |
No recognition to these people. Their suffering is unseen. |
War photographer |
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Might fly our lives like paper kites. |
Instability - our lives aren't in control but are at the mercy of greater forces. In this case the weather |
Tissue |
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Trace a grand design with living tissue |
Religious reference. Humans made in the image of god. |
Tissue |
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Thinned to be transparent |
Fragility of human life. Not everything can last forever but things are worn away and thinned with age. |
Tissue |
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My original view, the bright filled paperweight. |
Almost dream like picture of the past. Idealistic but unreal. |
The emigree |
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Banned by the state |
Vocabulary used in news reports. Depicts harsh realities of the now war torn country |
The emigree |
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No way back at all |
Exiled from unknown city. Also extended metaphor for childhood and how no adult can return to it. |
The emigree |
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Bout de dish ran away with de spoon |
Sing song rhyming nursery tales. Shows poets contempt for this version of history as it just seems like a joke. |
Checking out me history |
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A yellow sunrise to the dying |
Light imagery shows she plays a metaphorical role in illuminating the poets true identity. |
Checking out me history |
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I carving out me identity |
He is defining himself. Emphasised by use of non regular spelling based on his dialect throughout the poem |
Checking out me history |
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One way journey into history |
Never forgotten and will receive honour and recognition. Already knows that he will inevitably die. |
Kamikaze |
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Only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent. |
Shows the influence adults can have on children's views. Breakdown of the relationship between the pilot and all his family |
Kamikaze |
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Which had been the better way to die |
Being shunned by your whole community and having to live a life dishonoured with no-one might be worse than dying with honour and dignity. |
Kamikaze |