Power of nature in Power and Conflict

Sand outlasts a king. A mountain chases a boy. Wind is a huge nothing. Cold kills more men than bullets. Nature does not care about us.

The quotes

12 quotes, in the order they happen.

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of humans · power of nature

The king's boast on his statue. Look at what I built and be afraid. Around it there is nothing.

Nothing beside remains

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of humans · power of nature · loss

The statue is broken. The empire is gone. The sand is what lasts.

The lone and level sands stretch far away

Shelley · Ozymandias · power of nature

Flat empty desert in every direction. Nature outlasts every king.

a huge peak, black and huge

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

A boy steals a boat. A mountain rises up behind him. He repeats huge because he has no other word for it.

And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature

The mountain seems to walk after him. Nature has become alive and angry.

huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

For days after, he sees giant shapes in his mind. Nature has changed how he thinks.

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us

Owen · Exposure · conflict · power of nature

The cold is the enemy, not the Germans. The wind cuts like a knife.

We are prepared: we build our houses squat

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature · conflict

The islanders build low and strong. They think they are ready for the storm.

Spits like a tame cat Turned savage

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature

The sea is a cat that turns wild. Nature that seemed tame is not.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear

Heaney · Storm on the Island · power of nature

The last line. Wind is nothing you can see. It is still what they fear.

Paper that lets the light shine through

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans · power of nature

Thin paper lets light in. Dharker wants buildings and borders made that way too.

a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous

Garland · Kamikaze · power of nature · memory

Looking down at the sea, he remembers his father's fishing boat. The sea wins.