https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey Made with mirth en-us 2020-06-17 08:31:17 UTC 2025-11-23 23:32:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/575000921/9e2b9af040e8ae8ad57db3fd6fd15c8c/978.jpg syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630199248 “My Last Duchess” is one of Robert Browning's most famous and most anthologised poem.]]> 2020-06-17 08:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630199248 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630206156 2020-06-17 08:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630206156 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630206621 The irony is that his criticisms of his duchess reveal his own murderous nature and how far he is from seeing it himself.]]> 2020-06-17 08:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630206621 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630207772 2020-06-17 08:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630207772 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630209143 2020-06-17 08:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630209143 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630209802 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.]]> 2020-06-17 08:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630209802 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630210490 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.]]> 2020-06-17 08:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630210490 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630210739 Like Exposure and Kamikaze its a compassionate poem about the wider implications of war]]> 2020-06-17 08:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630210739 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630220134 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.]]> 2020-06-17 08:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630220134 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630221253 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.]]> 2020-06-17 08:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630221253 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630221768 Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας) is the Greek name for Ramesses II.]]> 2020-06-17 08:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630221768 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630222740 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.]]> 2020-06-17 08:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630222740 cilomee https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630557076 2020-06-17 13:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630557076 cilomee https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630558507 2020-06-17 13:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/630558507 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643902290 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. ]]> 2020-06-30 11:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643902290 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643903324 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.]]> 2020-06-30 11:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643903324 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643903658 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.]]> 2020-06-30 11:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643903658 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643904000 The tone is deliberately provoking and emotive language is used with the intention of involving and even upsetting the reader.]]> 2020-06-30 11:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643904000 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643905839 2020-06-30 11:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643905839 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643906624 2020-06-30 11:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643906624 syeshah https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643907333 2020-06-30 11:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/syeshah/6pvqfs1n0atibcey/wish/643907333