GCSE AQA English Literature Power and Conflict Quotes – Flashcards
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Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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Ozymandias - The legs have no body
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Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
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Ozymandias - The statue is consumed by the sand
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Sneer of cold command
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Ozymandias - He was a cold ruler
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king of kings
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Ozymandias - He was an arrogant ruler
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colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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Ozymandias - the statue is wrecked
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I wander through each chartered street
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London - Contrast between wander and chartered
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marks of weakness, marks of woe
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London - Alliteration and anaphora
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Chimney sweeper's cry...Hapless soldier's sigh
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London - Rhyming compares children to soldiers
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Plagues the marriage hearse
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London - Oxymoron
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The mind-forged manacles I hear
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London - The suffering is self-inflicted and in their heads
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One summer evening (led by her)
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The Prelude - Imagery and personification of nature
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troubled pleasure
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The Prelude - oxymoron, shows the guilt he feels from stealing the boat
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a huge peak, black and huge
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The Prelude - repetition of huge shows speechlessness
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lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake
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The Prelude - juxtaposition of lustily and silent - shows his impact on nature - imagery of a peaceful boat ride
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there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion
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The Prelude - thinking about the experience after, he feels
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my last Duchess
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My Last Duchess - possessive 'my', 'last' implies he expects to have a new one - power of man
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half-flush that dies along her throat
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My Last Duchess - 'dies' foreshadows her death as it is out of place and suspiscious
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My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
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My Last Duchess - Duke is proud of his history and family - status is important
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I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together
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My Last Duchess - euphemism for wife's murder, cold and cynical
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Notice Neptune... / Taming a sea-horse
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My Last Duchess - returns to subject of his art collection, emphasising his power and wealth, possibly a metaphor for how he sees himself
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valley of death
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Charge of the Light Brigade - Biblical reference - solemn and significant - "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" (Psalm 23)
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theirs not to make reply / theirs not to reason why / theirs but to do and die
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Charge of the Light Brigade - rhyme and repetition emphasises soldiers' obedience and sense of duty
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jaws of Death / ... mouth of Hell
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Charge of the Light Brigade - personification of death and hell makes them sound like inescapable monsters
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someone had blunder'd
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Charge of the Light Brigade - soldiers aware of the mistake, poet respects them for obeying anyway
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Noble six hundred!
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Charge of the Light Brigade - final line of poem shows the poet's appreciation for the bravery of the soldiers involved, despite the foolishness of military leaders
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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us...
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Exposure - shared, painful experience, personification of nature, ellipses hint they're waiting for something to happen
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But nothing happens.
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Exposure - short simple half line emphasises boredom and tension
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forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed
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Exposure - nature has caused them to lose hope
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We turn back to our dying.
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Exposure - the living offer no help, short sentence adds to loneliness
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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.
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Exposure - sibilance mimics the whistling sound of bullets flying
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We are prepared
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Storm on the Island - strong opening statement creates a feeling of safety
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spits like a tame cat / Turned savage.
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Storm on the Island - enjambment, simile shows how familiar things become frightening
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Exploding comfortably
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Storm on the Island - oxymoron juxtaposes feelings of fear and safety
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But there are no trees, no natural shelter.
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Storm on the Island - Caesura slows pace and emphasises 'no', reliance of people on nature
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We are bombarded by the empty air
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Storm on the Island - semantic field of war, wind compared to a fighter plane, 'empty' enforces idea of fearing nothing
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Bullets smacking the belly out of the air-
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Bayonet Charge - violent imagery, onomatopoeia, caesura
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he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
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Bayonet Charge - simile suggests uselessness of rifle, foreshadows injuries, verb shows heaviness, burden
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patriotic tear
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Bayonet Charge - patriotism has turned to fear and pain
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a yellow hare that rolled like a flame / And crawled in a threshing circle
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Bayonet Charge - war affects innocent animals and nature
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king, honour, human dignity, etcetera
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Bayonet Charge - 'etcetera' - unimportance, given only one line vs. the hare's three
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On another occasion
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Remains - poem starts in media res
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probably armed, possibly not
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Remains - doubt and conflict over the right thing to do, contrasts with definite action that follows
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rips through his life
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Remains - violent metaphor contrasts with colloquial style of previous stanzas
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tosses his guts back into his body
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Remains - casual, cold actions, no respect for dead, connotations of rubbish
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his bloody life in my bloody hands.
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Remains - double meaning of bloody, taking full responsibility, unbalanced by guilt
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tucks, darts, pleats
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Poppies - sewing imagery - anxiety
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the world overflowing / like a treasure chest
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Poppies - simile shows world from son's perspective
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released a song bird from its cage
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Poppies - symbolises her son leaving
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leaned against it like a wishbone
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Poppies - simile creates strong visual imagery
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hoping to hear / your playground voice catching on the wind.
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Poppies - alliteration echoes how she strains to hear him, links joining the army to going to school
