![]() ![]() “round the decay of that colossal wreck”.“My mane is Ozymandias, k ing of kings, look on my works ye mighty and despair”.That idea of absolutes is important as it stops you trying to write about everything. We did the first few in our revision lesson and it threw up some interesting ideas. There is enough in the words, whether it’s the adjectives, verbs, nouns, to offer a detailed and perceptive response. ![]() These three quotes are important because not only do they allow us to talk about the poem’s absolutes but they also contain some of those ‘neon’ words and techniques – personification, symbolism, repetition. “there hung a darkness, call it solitude”.“ the horizons bound, a huge peak, black and huge”.For example, with Prelude, we said that (a) you ABSOLUTELY need to talk about the sublime (b) the relationship with nature – water = feminine mountain = phallic and masculine (c) the shift in the poet’s feelings. To do this, it’s good to decide what are the absolutes about each poem. Suggestion: for each of these poems, reduce the list to 3 quotes, each with three or four words only. I said that I’d put it on the blog, so you need to thank Jen for the work. In a lunchtime revision session today, Jennifer shared this list of key quotes from all the poems.
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