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
3
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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
6
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The lone and
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level sands stretch far away.
7
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I wander
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Through each chartered street
8
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Near where
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The charted Thames does flow
9
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And mark in every face I meet
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Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
10
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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,
11
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The mind-
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forged manacles I hear
12
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Every blackening
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church appalls
13
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Runs in
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blood down palace walls
14
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How the youthful harlot’s curse
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Blasts the new-born infants tear
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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)
17
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Straight, I
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unloosed her chain
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troubled
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pleasure
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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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And measured motion like
a living thing,
Strode after me.
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And through the silent
water stole my way
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A dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being
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Call it
Solitude
Or blank desertion.
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No…….
No…….
No…….
No familiar shapes
Remained, no pleasant images of trees,
Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;
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Last line of The Prelude
moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.
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What rhythm is The Prelude written in?
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Blank verse
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What is the first line of My Last Duchess?
That my last Duchess painted on the wall,
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Will’t please you
sit and look at her?
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(since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
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that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek
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She had a heart - how shall I say? -
too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed
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She liked whate’er
She looked on,
and her looks went everywhere.
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as if she ranked
My gift of
a nine-hundred year old name
With anybody’s gift.
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E’en then would be some stooping; and
I choose
Never to stoop.
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This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.
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Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting,
is my object.
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Together down,
sir.
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Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,
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What is the last line of My Last Duchess?
Which Claus Of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
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Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward
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Some one had
blunder’d
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Theirs…
Theirs…
Theirs…
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
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Canon…
Canon…
Canon…
Canon to right of them,
Canon to left of them,
Canon is front of them
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Storm’d at
with shot and shell
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Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
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Refrain in COTLB?
Rode the six hundred.
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Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air
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All the
world wonder’d
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Anadiplosis in COLTB
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
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While horse and
hero fell
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When can their
glory fade?
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Honour the
Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
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What meter is COTLB written in?
Trochaic Tetrameter
- imitates horses gallop
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Our brains ache, in
the merciless iced east winds that knive
us…
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Worried by silence,
senteries whisper, curious, nervous
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What is the refrain in Exposure?
But nothing happens
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Like twitching
agonies of men among its brambles.
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What are
we doing here?
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Dawn massing in the east
her melancholy army
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Sudden successive
flights of bullets streak the silence.
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Pale flakes with
fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
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Is it that we
are dying?
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Slowly our
ghosts drag home
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For hours the
innocent mice rejoice
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We turn back
to our dying.
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For love of
God seems dying.
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Pause of half-
know faces. All their eyes are ice.
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First line of Storm on the Island?
We are prepared: we build our houses squat,
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Blast:
you know what I mean
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Can raise a
tragic chorus in a gale
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So that you can listen to the thing
you fear
Forgetting that is pummels your house too.
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You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably
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spits like
a tame cat
Turned savage.
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Strafes
invisibly.
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Space is also
a salvo.
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We are bombarded by
the empty air.
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What is the last line of Storm on the Island?
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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What is the first line of bayonet charge?
Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw
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What is a symbol of safety in bayonet charge?
A green hedge
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Bullets smacking
the belly out of the air
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He lugged a rifle
numb as a smashed arm
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The patriotic tear that
had brimmed in my eye
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Sweating like molten
iron from the centre of his chest
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In what cold
clockwork of the stars and nations / Was he the hand pointing that second?
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his foot hung like
Statuary in mid-stride
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Threw up a
yellow hair that rolled like a flame
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King, honour,
human dignity etcetera
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Dropped like luxuries
in a yelling alarm
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To get out of that blue
crackling air
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What is the last line of Bayonet Charge?
His terrors touchy dynamite.
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What is the first line of Remains?
On another occasion, we get sent out
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probably armed,
possibly not
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Well myself and
somebody else and somebody else
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He’s there on the ground,
sort of inside out
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One of my mates goes by and
tosses his guts back into his body.
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End of story,
except not really.
102
His _______ ________ stays on the street.
blood-shadow
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And the drinks and the
drugs won’t flush him out
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not left for dead in some distant,
sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet under in desert sand.
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What is the last line of Remains?
his bloody life in my bloody hands
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What is the first line of Poppies?
Three days before Armistice Sunday
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_______ of red paper, disrupting a _______ of yellow bias ________ around your blazer.
spasms, distrusting, binding
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Sellotape _________ around my hand
bandaged
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_________ the _______ of my face
steeled, softening
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All my words __________ , _________ turned into _______
flattened, rolled, felt
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the world overflowing
like a treasure chest
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A split second and you were away, ___________
intoxicated
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After you’d gone I went into your bedroom,
released a songbird from its cage
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skirting by the
church walls
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making _____, ______, _______
tucks, darts, pleats
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leaned against it like
a wishbone
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What is the last line of poppies?
I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind.
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What is the first line of war photographer?
In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
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All flesh
is grass.
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Belfast. ________. _____ _____.
Beirut. Phnom Penh.
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ordinary _______
pain
