Term 3 Poetry - Summary Notes

TERM 3 POETRY COMPARATIVE Feature Ozymandias Remember Will it be so again Nobody loses all the time Structure Petrarchan Sonnet: Octave + Sestet Deterministic: Determined rhyme scheme, 5 stanzas of lines (quintain) Free Verse | | regular rhyme scheme | | | | Petrarchan: Octave, Volta, Sestet | | | | | Shakespearean: Irregular rhyme | | | | | Diction | "I met a traveller from an antique land" | "Remember" - Command | Soldiers, Crises | Spelling is pronunciation | | "King of Kings" - Loud, grandiose | "Yea" - Direct, forceful, pronounced | | | | "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings" | | | Understanding is not affected | | | | | | | | | | | | Imagery | "Sand forgot" - Time's destructive power | | | | | "Colossal wreck" - Decay and ruin | | | | | "Visage worn by the wind" - Erosion | | | | | "King of Kings" - Hyperbole | | | | | Theme & | Percy Shelley: Radical, anti-monarchy, | Christina Rossetti: Dedicates her life to | Cecil Day-Lewis: Radical, revolutionary, | E.E. Cummings: Divinity is unique and | | Message & | rejection of institutions of power. | art. Died of cancer. | Communism. | Transcendentalism-Encounters can | | Intention | | | | be discovered through intuition | | | | | "May I be I" is the only prayer-not may I | | | | | be great or good or beautiful | | | | | |