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Can you name some 'language and themes'
Can you name some 'language and themes'
- light imagery is used throughout the poem as something which is able to move through things, break through boundaries and allow people to see.
- the delicacy of paper is emphasized through the use of adjectives to describe the firmness.
- the use of money, architecture and book binding all creates an extended metaphor for human life and skin
What are the form,, structure and context
What are the form,, structure and context
- the poem lacks any regular rhythm or rhyme, it is written in nine, four line stanzas with a single line stanza to conclude
- the poem has a fairly clear structure, moving from ideas about history, on to the human experiences and finally to the formation of human life
- they have used enjambment across lines and between stanzas. this could indicate the following, delicate nature of both life and paper.
- the poem focuses on humanity rather than individuals.
- the poem is from the dharkers 2006 collection, the terrorist at my table, a collection of poems which questions humanity on our awareness of the people around us.
What happens in the poetry.
What happens in the poetry.
- the initial phase of the poem talks abut the importance of paper as something we used to record our history and change things
- paper is shown as a delicate but still remains a huge catalyst changing elements of our lives
- the final stages of the poem talk of constructing things, especially human life which is far more complex and valuable
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Ozymandias
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“Ozymandias” is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that describes the ruins of a statue of Rameses II, also known as Ozymandias. The poem's speaker meets a traveler who tells him about a decayed statue in the desert of an “antique land.”
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