AQA GCSE English Literature 'Power and Conflict' poetry revision notes for paper two.
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Summary :
Narrator describes
meeting traveller from other land
mym o n d i a s
o
Tells
story of finding abrolen statue in desert
Written
by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1818
Indicates the hing was arrogant proud , , and boastful
↳
against british
monarchy
most
powerful pharaoh of ancient egypt
Ozymandias'e
↓
name
for egyptian pharaoh
Ramses II
key ideas :
Arrogance sculptor satives ozymandias "the hand
"
that moded them
of rules - power leads to mistreatment ->
Power
of art -art is timeless compared to human power (ephemeal) keywords :
Timeless message abuse Caesara break in
still relevant
today line
:
of Powe is
Ephemeral temperory
=
Omnipotent =
all
powerful
Ephemeral power :
14
Colossal wreck" -
oxymoron/juxtapositione contrast between forme power current state
"Nothing besides
1
remains . Round the decay"-Caesura (breah inline) e
power comes to end
shattered" , "decayed" ,
"wrech" -
Statue is
destroyed like
Ozymandias' power
Yast and trankless legs of stone" "half sunh" , ,
"shattered visage" -
metaphor of political power
Negative portrayal :
rown" frule in cruel manner
"
sneer" "wrinkled" "Stamped" posts feelings towards monarchy
-
, , ,
"sneer of cold command"
-
plosive alliteration-housh sounds - hatred
Ozymandias :
"ooh on my works"
-
imperative language controlling
-
"My name is
Ozymandias king of kings" ,
-
repetition -
wants to be omnipotent-wants to be seen
god-like
Fragmented structure -
fragmented power
"My name is Ozymandias" -
breaks iambic pentameter -> hing is superior Links :
Enjamberment
·
and caesura - fragmentation powerful people power missuse
↳
my last dutchess , London
Irony +
Sative : nature i s human
Power has gane lest , in "boundless and bare" area-power crumbled like statue
i
stormen the island , exposure
the
Ina hand account isn't as important prelude , tissue
-Ozymandias
Sonnet form -
usually in love poemsehings love for
himself (humor
,l o a d
a
o William blake -1794
~positive
Summary : Blake's views : natura
do anything childhood +
he can't
~
Walls through London
to help critical Wrote" sanys innocenc"
of rich lives us poverty of
↓ +
"says of experience"
struck by poverty · anti
, disease , misery explotion
+
religion-church is corrupt ↑ corruption society
of
context : Idaak tone
Similar time to Stench revolution -
authorities in London limited freedom of expression to prevent repeat in England .
Y
4
streets" Chartered" "mind-forged manaces"
key concepts :
Impact of child
chimney sweeps price people paid for urbanisation from the IR
·
industrialisation -
reminds reade of
->
children are supposed to be Carefres
+
innocent forced to work
Church
monarchy - blake is critical as
money is
being spent on luxuries rather than on
suffering
and
poverty
Being trappea -
language rejects entrapment
-
poor can't escape circumstances
Structure :
Rhythm +rhyme -> AB rhyme scheme
->
iambictetrameter -
never ending suffering +
misery
->
enjamberment neverending misly
-
shifting focus +
deprivation misery - +
who is responsible /state) e
who is affected (unescapable)
Form > Dramatic shows
monologue anger frustration
-
"Runs in blood down palace walls" - metaphore monarchy are responsible for the excessive
poverty
"Black ning charch" color corruption death church's fault
- e
imagery
"Curse" "blast" -> vivid verbs t
hyperbole ->
exaggerates suffling
marks of weakness marks of wre"
sensory language ebrings horrors to life
-
,
"In every everyman's repetition ->
problem is widespread
cry of
n every infant's cryofflar" - emotive Blake's anger at helpless institutions
language
-
Blasts the new-born
infants tear"
, repetition
Trapped imagery
↑
"I wander through each chartered street"
-> 'Chartered' is repeated highlights extent of
government authority
I "hear where the Chartered Thames does
glow" -
rivers are
usually associated
listed t regulated I bad with greedan
government
"The /hear" -
mina-forged manacles
↑
suggests people are trapped by attitudes which prevents a better
life
means restraint
key quote
~trapped imagery
"Chartered Street" "chartered Thames" - Fire usually
freedom
associated
) listed regulated
repetition
lextent of government
authority
marks of weakness marks of woe"
,
M
emotive
lang expresses suffering
It Blake's anger at helpless
institutions
every Man" /"in every Infant's cry
"In fear"
every cry of of
Semotive lang Crepetition -
widespread problem
lextent of
surgring thelpless institutions
Links :
Unpleasent/powerful experienc "Runs blood down
in
palace walls"
↳ The
prelude Exposure , Bayanet Charge
Remains
, Imetaphore Imonocy
/responsiblefor sugseing
Human power t misuse it
of
Can't escape
↳
my Last Dutchess , Ozymandias "Youthful harlot's curse"-
I
prostitute
/exploitation
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