Key Themes Poetry Character and Voice

Power, 

Power in their hands, 

• Ozymandias
• River God 

Power used to control others

• Medusa
• My Last Duchess

Death,

Killing and Murder 

• The river God 
• My last Duchess
• Medusa

Grief and Loss

• On a portrait of a deaf man

Damage

Physical Damage 

• HunchBack in the park 
• Case History: Alison (head injury) 

Moral damage, affect peoples reputation 

• The ruined Maid 
• Horse Whisperer

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