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english lit poems - Coggle Diagram
english lit poems
ozymandias
key quotes
"colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away"
the metaphor "colossal wreck" - this phrase is not only a reference to the forgotten statue but also for Ozymandias' ego
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"cold command... look on my works, ye mighty and despair!"
tone: exclamatory sentence - the tone is strong and authoritative which is ironic because nobody is listening
alliteration "cold command" - Ozymandias was powerful and arrogant which is again ironic because nothing is left
summary - the narrator meets a traveller who tells him about a statue standing in the middle of the desert and its a statue of a king who ruled over a past civilisation. His face is proud and he arrogantly boasts about how powerful he is in an inscription on the statues base. However, the statue has fallen down and crumbled away so that only the ruins remain
themes
the main themes of the poem is irony. The writer suggests throughout how not even a memory of a powerful ruler can outlast time
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london
summary - the narrator is describing a walk around the city of London and on this walk, he realises the people he meets are affected by misery and despair. The misery is seemed as relentless and no one can escape it, not even the young and innocent. People in power (like the church, monarchy and the wealthy) seem to be behind the problems and do nothing to help the people
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key themes
the main theme of this poem is the lack of and abuse of power - there is also contrast between the lack of power in the soldiers and the abuse of power in the royals
form - this is a dramatic monologue therefore the first person narrator speaks passionately and personally about the suffering that he sees.
the prelude
summary - the extract begins on a summer evening when the narrator finds a boat tied to a tree. He unties the boat and takes it out on the lake. At first, the narrator is happy and calm describing the beautiful scenery. But then a mountain appears on the horizon and the narrator begins to get scared and is afraid of its size and power. So he turns the boat around and goes home, but his view of nature has changed.
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war photographer
summary - a war photographer in his darkroom developing the pictures he had taken in the warzones he had been at across the world with the contrast of being back in England - its much safer and calmer compared to the war zones he was at. One of the photos begin to develop and he remembers the death of the man and the cries of his wife. The last paragraph focuses on how he thinks that the people that see his photos in the sunday papers don't really care about the people and places that these photographs show
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