AQA Power and Conflict Poems- Structure, Form, Themes and Quotes

London; William Blake

·         4 quatrains (4-line stanza) ABAB rhyme scheme

·         8 syllables per line- the even rhythm sounds like walking

·         1^st person narrative

·         Uses of repetition, hyperbole and oxymoron- to prove a point

·         Regular form  

·         Each stanza gets darker and deeper

·         THEMES: ANGER, HOPELESSNESS, ISOLATION

·         QUOTES

·         “I wander through each charted street… chartered Thames does flow”

·         “Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

·         “In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear”

·         “Mind-forged manacles I hear”

·         “Every black’ning church appals”

·         “Blood down palace walls”

·         “Midnights streets I hear how the youthful harlot’s curse”

·         “plagues the marriage hearse”

Ozymandias; Percy Bysshe Shelley

·         Sonnet (14-line poem) but doesn’t use traditional rhyme or puncation of a sonnet

·         Lacks the same rhyme as punctuation as a traditional sonnet

·         Written using irregular iambic pentameter- this distances the reader and the king more

·         Uses of caesura and enjambment

·         THEMES: PRIDE AND POWER, ARROGANCE, NATURE AND THE LACK OF POWER TO NATURE

·         QUOTES

·         “I met a traveller from an antique land”

·         “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert”

·         “Half sunk, a shattered visage of lies”

·         “Frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”

·         “Lifeless things”

·         “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”

·         “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair”

·         “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreak”

Extract from the Prelude; William Wordsworth

·         One very long stanza (44-line)

·         No rhyme and random puncation, caesura

·         Blank verse

·         Regular pattern of 10 syllables per line which is iambic pentameter showing there is a large subject matter

·         Autobiographic 1^st person narrative

·         Personification of nature to show she is lying and he shouldn’t follow her

·         THEMES: CONFIDENCE AND LACK OF CONFIDENCE, NATURE, FEAR, MEMEORY

·         QUOTES

·         “One summers evening (led by her) I found a little fishing boat tied to a willow tree”

·         “Small circles glittering idly in the moon”

·         “I dipped my oars in the silent lake”

·         “like a swan”

·         “The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge… grim shape towered up between me and the stars”

·         “motion like a living thing, strode after me with trembling oars”

·         “That spectacle, for many days, my brain worked a dim and undetermined sense”

·         “moved slowly through my mind, by day and were the trouble to my dreams”

My Last Duchess; Robert Browning

·         One stanza (56-line)

·         Rhyming Couplets AABB- shows control

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