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The tone is deliberately provoking and emotive language is used with the intention of involving and even upsetting the reader.

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By repeating the phrase "But nothing happens", the poem emphasises the agony of waiting and that war is not all about action. By the end of the poem there is a sense of hopelessness and despair where the men see their deaths as inevitable.

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The poet has a sense of injustice about the way the soldiers are being treated. If being "exposed" to gunfire does not kill them, then exposure to the brutal weather conditions might do.

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Wilfred Owen shows how soldiers are exposed hypothermia and the horrific conditions of open trench warfare. Often before death soldiers would enter a delusional state in which feelings and memories of warmth clouded their minds.

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Shelley’s poem is thought to have been inspired by the news of the 1821 acquisition of a statue of Ramses II by the British Museum in London. It was also written in competition with Shelley’s friend Horace Smith, who produced his own “Ozymandias” sonnet and published it a month later.

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Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας) is the Greek name for Ramesses II.

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In brief, Ozymandias is a sonnet about the inevitable fate of time and history, and that all prominent figures and empires are impermanent and will eventually decay and disappear into oblivion, just as the desert covers the fragment of the statue.

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Although the name Ozymandias (which means "a tyrant, a dictator, a megalomaniac; someone or something of immense size, a colossus") has Greek roots and dates back to roughly 323 BC, Percy Bysshe Shelley brought the word to prominence in 1818 after publishing a sonnet by the same name.

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Like Exposure and Kamikaze its a compassionate poem about the wider implications of war

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Jane Weir clearly wished to portray the grief of bereaved mothers. As a mother herself she was able to imagine the feelings of women who had lost a son or daughter.

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The poem, though set in the present day, could refer to any war, from the Great War of 1914-1918, to the Afghan and Iraq wars of the 20th century. It reaches back to the beginning of the Poppy Day tradition.

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Armistice Day began as a way of marking the end of the First World War, so people could remember the hundreds and thousands of ordinary men who had been killed. Remembrance Sunday commemorates those who fell in all wars since then. Jane Weir conflates the two.

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The speaker is believed to be based on Alfonso II d'Este, the fifth Duke of Ferrara (1533–1598). At age 25, the Duke married the 14-year-old Lucrezia di Cosimo de' Medici (pictured above). His bride died three years later, at age 17, and is thought to have been poisoned. The other characters mentioned in the poem are fictional.

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The irony is that his criticisms of his duchess reveal his own murderous nature and how far he is from seeing it himself.

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The poem first appeared in 1842 in Dramatic Lyrics(1841-1846). It is probably the finest example of Browning’s dramatic monologues, in which he paints a devastating portrait of the Duke Ferrara’s vicious personality.

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“My Last Duchess” is one of Robert Browning's most famous and most anthologised poem.