Key Quotations Flashcards
1
Q
Exposure
A
- ‘merciless iced winds that knive us’
- ‘pale flakes with fingering stealth’
- ‘but nothing happens’
- ‘on us the doors are closed’
2
Q
War photographer
A
- ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
- ‘his hands which did not tremble then seem to now’
- ‘solutions slop in trays’
- they do not care’
3
Q
Charge of the light brigade
A
- ‘cannon to right of them cannon to the left of them cannon in front of them’
- ‘into the valley of death’
- stormed at with shat and shell
- all the world wondered
4
Q
Bayonet charge
A
- suddenly he was awake and he was running
- sweating like molten iron
- in bewilderment he almost stopped
- his terrors touchy dynamite
5
Q
Remains
A
- legs it up the road
- pain itself the image of agony
- possibly armed possibly not
- his bloody life in my bloody hands
6
Q
Poppies
A
- crimped petals, spasm of paper red
- the world overflowing like a treasure chest
- all my words flattened rolled and turned into felt
- hoping to hear your playground voice
7
Q
Ozymandias
A
- sneer of cold command
- Look on my works ye mighty and despair
- colossal wreck
- the lone and level sand stretch far away
8
Q
Storm on the island
A
- We are prepared
- spits like a tame cat turned savage
- exploding comfortably
- strange it is a huge nothing that we fear
9
Q
Checking out me history
A
- bandage me eye, blind me
- dem tell me about de man dat discover de ballon
- a healing star
- carving me own identity
10
Q
Prelude
A
- an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
- a huge peak black and huge
- with trembling oars i turned
- there hung a darkness
11
Q
London
A
- marks of weakness, marks of woe
- mind forged manacles
- hapless sigh
- plagues the marriage hearse
12
Q
Tissue
A
- paper thinned by age or touching
- maps too. The sun shines through
- fly our lives like paper kites
- build a structure, never meant to last
13
Q
Emigree
A
- branded by an impression of sunlight
- i comb its hair and love its shining eyes
- time rolls its tanks
- they accuse me of being dark in their free city
14
Q
Kamikaze
A
- one way journey into history
- green blue translucent sea
- dark shoals of fishes, flashing silver
- which had been the better way to die
15
Q
My last Dutchess
A
- there she stands as if alive
- a heart, how shall i say? Too soon made glad
- i choose never to stoop
- i gave commands; the all smiles stopped together
