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Conflict And Power Poetry ⚔️🌊 Flashcards

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Two vast and

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trunkless legs of stone

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Wrinkled lip, and

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sneer of cold command

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‘My name is Ozymandias,

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king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

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Nothing

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beside remains.

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Round the decay

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Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

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The lone and

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level sands stretch far away.

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I wander

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Through each chartered street

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Near where

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The charted Thames does flow

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And mark in every face I meet

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Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

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In every cry of every man,

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In every infants cry’s of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,

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The mind-

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forged manacles I hear

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Every blackening

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church appalls

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Runs in

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blood down palace walls

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How the youthful harlot’s curse

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Blasts the new-born infants tear

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15
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And blights with

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plagues the marriage hearse.

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One summer evening

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(led by her)

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Straight, I

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unloosed her chain

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18
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troubled

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pleasure

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19
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Semantic field of light

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glittering, moon, melted, sparkling light

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The horizon’s

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utmost boundary

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Went heaving through the

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water like a swan

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The horizon’s bound,

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a huge peak, black and huge

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As if with voluntary

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power instinct, upreared its head.

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trembling

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oars

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25
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And measured motion like

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a living thing,
Strode after me.

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26
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And through the silent

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water stole my way

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27
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A dim and undetermined sense

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Of unknown modes of being

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28
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Call it

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Solitude
Or blank desertion.

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29
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No…….
No…….
No…….

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No familiar shapes
Remained, no pleasant images of trees,
Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;

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30
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Last line of The Prelude

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moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.

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31
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What rhythm is The Prelude written in?

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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Blank verse

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What is the first line of My Last Duchess?

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That my last Duchess painted on the wall,

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33
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Will’t please you

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sit and look at her?

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(since none puts by

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The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)

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35
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that spot

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Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek

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She had a heart - how shall I say? -

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too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed

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She liked whate’er
She looked on,

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and her looks went everywhere.

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38
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as if she ranked
My gift of

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a nine-hundred year old name
With anybody’s gift.

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39
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E’en then would be some stooping; and

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I choose
Never to stoop.

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This grew; I gave commands;

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Then all smiles stopped together.

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41
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Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting,

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is my object.

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42
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Together down,

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sir.

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43
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Notice Neptune, though,

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Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,

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What is the last line of My Last Duchess?

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Which Claus Of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

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45
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Half a league, half a league,

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Half a league onward

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46
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Some one had

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blunder’d

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47
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Theirs…
Theirs…
Theirs…

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Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die

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Canon…
Canon…
Canon…

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Canon to right of them,
Canon to left of them,
Canon is front of them

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Storm’d at

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with shot and shell

50
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Into the jaws of Death,

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Into the mouth of hell

51
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Refrain in COTLB?

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Rode the six hundred.

52
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Flash’d all their sabres bare,

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Flash’d as they turn’d in air

53
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All the

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world wonder’d

54
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Anadiplosis in COLTB

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Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

55
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While horse and

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hero fell

56
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When can their

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glory fade?

57
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Honour the

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Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

58
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What meter is COTLB written in?

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Trochaic Tetrameter
- imitates horses gallop

59
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Our brains ache, in

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the merciless iced east winds that knive
us…

60
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Worried by silence,

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senteries whisper, curious, nervous

61
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What is the refrain in Exposure?

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But nothing happens

62
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Like twitching

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agonies of men among its brambles.

63
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What are

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we doing here?

64
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Dawn massing in the east

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her melancholy army

65
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Sudden successive

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flights of bullets streak the silence.

66
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Pale flakes with

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fingering stealth come feeling for our faces

67
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Is it that we

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are dying?

68
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Slowly our

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ghosts drag home

69
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For hours the

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innocent mice rejoice

70
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We turn back

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to our dying.

71
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For love of

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God seems dying.

72
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Pause of half-

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know faces. All their eyes are ice.

73
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First line of Storm on the Island?

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We are prepared: we build our houses squat,

74
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Blast:

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you know what I mean

75
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Can raise a

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tragic chorus in a gale

76
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So that you can listen to the thing

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you fear
Forgetting that is pummels your house too.

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You might think that the sea is company,

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Exploding comfortably

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spits like

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a tame cat
Turned savage.

79
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Strafes

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invisibly.

80
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Space is also

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a salvo.

81
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We are bombarded by

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the empty air.

82
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What is the last line of Storm on the Island?

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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

83
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What is the first line of bayonet charge?

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Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw

84
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What is a symbol of safety in bayonet charge?

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A green hedge

85
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Bullets smacking

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the belly out of the air

86
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He lugged a rifle

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numb as a smashed arm

87
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The patriotic tear that

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had brimmed in my eye

88
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Sweating like molten

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iron from the centre of his chest

89
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In what cold

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clockwork of the stars and nations / Was he the hand pointing that second?

90
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his foot hung like

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Statuary in mid-stride

91
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Threw up a

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yellow hair that rolled like a flame

92
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King, honour,

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human dignity etcetera

93
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Dropped like luxuries

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in a yelling alarm

94
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To get out of that blue

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crackling air

95
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What is the last line of Bayonet Charge?

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His terrors touchy dynamite.

96
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What is the first line of Remains?

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On another occasion, we get sent out

97
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probably armed,

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possibly not

98
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Well myself and

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somebody else and somebody else

99
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He’s there on the ground,

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sort of inside out

100
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One of my mates goes by and

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tosses his guts back into his body.

101
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End of story,

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except not really.

102
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His _______ ________ stays on the street.

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blood-shadow

103
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And the drinks and the

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drugs won’t flush him out

104
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not left for dead in some distant,

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sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet under in desert sand.

105
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What is the last line of Remains?

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his bloody life in my bloody hands

106
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What is the first line of Poppies?

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Three days before Armistice Sunday

107
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_______ of red paper, disrupting a _______ of yellow bias ________ around your blazer.

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spasms, distrusting, binding

108
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Sellotape _________ around my hand

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bandaged

109
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_________ the _______ of my face

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steeled, softening

110
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All my words __________ , _________ turned into _______

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flattened, rolled, felt

111
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the world overflowing

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like a treasure chest

112
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A split second and you were away, ___________

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intoxicated

113
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After you’d gone I went into your bedroom,

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released a songbird from its cage

114
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skirting by the

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church walls

115
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making _____, ______, _______

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tucks, darts, pleats

116
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leaned against it like

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a wishbone

117
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What is the last line of poppies?

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I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind.

118
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What is the first line of war photographer?

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In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.

119
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All flesh

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is grass.

120
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Belfast. ________. _____ _____.

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Beirut. Phnom Penh.

121
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ordinary _______

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pain

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