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Anthology Poems (My Last Duchess (Pride - duke proud of possessions and…
Anthology Poems
My Last Duchess
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"Will't please you sit and look at her?" sounds polite, being forceful
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"who'd stoop to blame [...] e'en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop" - she's beneath him, exasperated with behaviour
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The Prelude
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Fear - nature = more powerful than human. Narrator left with feeling of respect for nature, also scared
Reflection - poem ends w/ narrator feeling awe & respect for nature, dreams still troubled
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"a huge peak, black and huge"
"upreared its head. I struck and struck again and growing still in stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars"
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"there hung a darkness, call it solitude"
Storm on the Island
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Helplessness - people can't do anything but wait for it to finish - nature is a powerful, relentless force
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"not trees, no natural shelter"
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Remains
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"possibly armed, possibly not"
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"End of story, except not really"
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Exposure
Suffering - reminders of real, physical pain that soldier experiences
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Hopelessness - men helpless against power of nature, nothing they can do, no future for them
"worried" "watching" "confused" "curious, nervous" "nothing happens" left to contemplate own deaths
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"pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces" snowflakes maliciously seeking men's faces
- "but nothing happens" 2. "What are we doing here?" 3&4. "But nothing happens" 5. "Is that we are dying?" 6. "We turn back to our dying" 7. "For love of God seems dying" 8. "But nothing happens"
Ozymandias
Proud - of what he achieved, wanted others to admire
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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tells others to despair bcus of his power but they should despair bcus power is temporary and unimportant
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London
Anger - emotive & repetitive lang shows anger, angry at people in power who could change things but don't
Hopelessness - "mind-forged manacles" people themselves to blame - trapped by own attitudes (not even trying to help themselves
"I wander" - purposeless, powerless
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