Theme/ Power of Power of Effects of Reality of Loss and Memory Negative emotions Identity Individual
Poem humans nature conflict conflict absence experiences
Ozymandias Power of ruler Even powerful / / / / Ozymandias was / /
long ago. Abused humans can’t prideful and wanted to
his power. out power or show off by having a
Powerful work of outlast nature. big statue, now he is
humans because Human long gone and his
the statue stood achievements statue is falling apart.
for a long time. are insignificant It seems the artist is
But now it is to the passing of mocking him by giving
broken, and no time and the him “a sneer” and the
one remembers path of nature. in inscription calling
the ruler or the Power is Ozymandias “king of
artist, because temporary and kings” is ironic now.
time is more ultimately He tells other rulers to
powerful than unimportant. “despair” because of
humans. Art The narrator how grand his “works”
cannot hasn’t even are but in fact they
immortalise seen the statue should despair
power. Uses showing how because their power is
lang. of power unimportant temporary and fragile
Ozymandias is like his. He was proud
now. and arrogant.
London Lots of refs. To / / / Mentions death / Anger- Emotive / 1st person narrator
despair, often. “Marriage language and makes situation
hopelessness, hearse” links repetition show he’s seem more real.
“plagues” that marriage with angry “every Describes
are death. Oxymoron black’ning church” and experience of
uncontrollable by suggesting “palace walls”- he is narrator but also of
the people. everything has angry about ppl in the people in
Human power is been destroyed power doing nothing London, using
little, people are and the good to help. “black’ning emotive language
trapped by things are lost. church” is like an to convey their
thoughts and New-born babies’ oxymoron because the hopelessness
attitudes as well innocence lost church is associated
as being pwrless immediately as with white and pure
to society’s rules people curse it for whereas black is
and customs and crying- society connoted with evil.
also diseases and damages its
, deaths and the members.
doings of the
royalty. Speaker
angry at
powerful people
and institutions
like the “church”
and “palace”.
Narrator
“wanders”
through street,
purposeless and
powerless to
stop what he is
seeing.
The Prelude / Nature / / / Told as a memory, Fear Fearful of the size / A retelling of one
personified. ends with reflection and power of nature. person’s experience
Mountain abt how the speaker Fearful lang used, he and the way it
“black” “huge” has been changed by starts of confident and affected him.
and “craggy” a the event. familiar and happy but Ends with him
sense of awe gradually it hints that reflecting on how it
and fear something is wrong, changed him and
created. Nature before the volta how it made him
described as a (turning point) where troubled (not
powerful he is very afraid of “troubled pleasure”
conscious being natures huge, black, as in the start, just
that can mountains. troubled now)
influence our Pride: Narrator proud almost as a warning
lives. It is of his skill of steering to the reader
massive and the boat (and stealing
more powerful it) maybe a bit
than any man, arrogant “unswerving
though it may line” contrasted later
not look it. in the poem when he
realises, he is not a
master of any of it.
My Last Duke is in control Memory of duchess is Pride: the duke is Duke thinks that
of his visitor and how he chooses to proud of his money stratus and power is
Poem humans nature conflict conflict absence experiences
Ozymandias Power of ruler Even powerful / / / / Ozymandias was / /
long ago. Abused humans can’t prideful and wanted to
his power. out power or show off by having a
Powerful work of outlast nature. big statue, now he is
humans because Human long gone and his
the statue stood achievements statue is falling apart.
for a long time. are insignificant It seems the artist is
But now it is to the passing of mocking him by giving
broken, and no time and the him “a sneer” and the
one remembers path of nature. in inscription calling
the ruler or the Power is Ozymandias “king of
artist, because temporary and kings” is ironic now.
time is more ultimately He tells other rulers to
powerful than unimportant. “despair” because of
humans. Art The narrator how grand his “works”
cannot hasn’t even are but in fact they
immortalise seen the statue should despair
power. Uses showing how because their power is
lang. of power unimportant temporary and fragile
Ozymandias is like his. He was proud
now. and arrogant.
London Lots of refs. To / / / Mentions death / Anger- Emotive / 1st person narrator
despair, often. “Marriage language and makes situation
hopelessness, hearse” links repetition show he’s seem more real.
“plagues” that marriage with angry “every Describes
are death. Oxymoron black’ning church” and experience of
uncontrollable by suggesting “palace walls”- he is narrator but also of
the people. everything has angry about ppl in the people in
Human power is been destroyed power doing nothing London, using
little, people are and the good to help. “black’ning emotive language
trapped by things are lost. church” is like an to convey their
thoughts and New-born babies’ oxymoron because the hopelessness
attitudes as well innocence lost church is associated
as being pwrless immediately as with white and pure
to society’s rules people curse it for whereas black is
and customs and crying- society connoted with evil.
also diseases and damages its
, deaths and the members.
doings of the
royalty. Speaker
angry at
powerful people
and institutions
like the “church”
and “palace”.
Narrator
“wanders”
through street,
purposeless and
powerless to
stop what he is
seeing.
The Prelude / Nature / / / Told as a memory, Fear Fearful of the size / A retelling of one
personified. ends with reflection and power of nature. person’s experience
Mountain abt how the speaker Fearful lang used, he and the way it
“black” “huge” has been changed by starts of confident and affected him.
and “craggy” a the event. familiar and happy but Ends with him
sense of awe gradually it hints that reflecting on how it
and fear something is wrong, changed him and
created. Nature before the volta how it made him
described as a (turning point) where troubled (not
powerful he is very afraid of “troubled pleasure”
conscious being natures huge, black, as in the start, just
that can mountains. troubled now)
influence our Pride: Narrator proud almost as a warning
lives. It is of his skill of steering to the reader
massive and the boat (and stealing
more powerful it) maybe a bit
than any man, arrogant “unswerving
though it may line” contrasted later
not look it. in the poem when he
realises, he is not a
master of any of it.
My Last Duke is in control Memory of duchess is Pride: the duke is Duke thinks that
of his visitor and how he chooses to proud of his money stratus and power is
