GCSE AQA POWER & CONFLICT COMPLETE DETAILED CONTENT

COMPLETE DETAILED CONTENT Poems Ozymandias - Form - correct answer - Sonnet, with a volta at line 9 - Doesn't follow a regular sonnet rhyme scheme. This symbolises destruction of human power and control - Iambic pentameter - control, although often disrupted - like time chipping away at the statue - Second hand account, distancing reader from Ozymandias and proving his irrelevance Ozymandias - Structure - correct answer - Focuses of different parts of the statue in turn, building up an image (and suggesting it's in pieces now) - Poem ends with description of enormous desert, showing the statue as insignificant Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Arrogance - correct answer "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair" He intended 'despair' because of the grandeur of his statue, but now despair because of the temporary nature of power Ozymandias - Quote to Show Ozymandias' Insignifance - correct answer "The lone and level sands stretch far away" - Insignificance of statue vs Size of nature Final line - reader left with greater impression of nature than of Ozymandias Context - Shelley's thoughts and ideas - correct answer Romantic poet - Against total power, hatred of oppression London - Form - correct answer - Dramatic monologue, the first person narrator is passionate and personal - Unbroken ABAB rhyme scheme, showing relentless misery - Regular rhythm - sound of footfalls of poetic voice trudging London - Structural features - correct answer - Stanzas one and two focus on people (sights then sounds) - Stanza three focuses on who's to blame - Stanza four is back to people London - Quote to show Emotive language - correct answer "every infant's cry of fear" meaning London is unsafe, even the young and innocent are trapped in this society - This is Sensory imagery London - Quote to show London's Attitudes - correct answer "The mind-forged manacles I hear" - People's minds are restricted, confined, corrupted - unable to think properly London - Quote to show a lack of Responsibility - correct answer "Every blackening church appals" - The verb "appals" applies to the chimney sweepers in the line above. These usually were orphans being cared for by the church Church is blackened by the soot and the smoke, but is also black with corruption. It could help society but doesn't The Prelude - Form - correct answer - First-person narrative - Personal account of a turning point in Wordsworth's life - Blank verse (unrhymed i