Key Quotes for Poems Flashcards
Key quotes for Exposure
- “Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, - “
- “All their eyes are ice, “
Key quotes for The Emigree
- “the bright, filled paperweight”
- “time rolls its tanks”
Key quotes for Storm on the Island
- “Exploding comfortably”
- “But there are no trees, no natural shelter.”
Key quotes for Kamikaze
- “they treated him as though he no longer existed.”
- “And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die.”
Key quotes for Ozymandias
- “despair!”
- “lone and level”
Key quotes for Tissue
- “rivers make, roads, railtracks”
- “might fly our lives like paper kites”
Key quotes for Poppies
- Caesura on line 11
- “a treasure chest”
Key quotes for The Charge of the Light Brigade
- “sabre stoke Shatter’d and sunder’d.”
- “Volley’d and thunder’d;”
Key quotes for War Photographer
- “He has a job to do”
- “his hands, which did not tremble then”
Key quotes for Prelude
- “Upreared its head”
- “grim shape…stars, and still”
Key quotes for Bayonet Charge
- “Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
- “rolled like a flame”
Key quotes for London
- Repetition of “every” on lines 5, 6 + 7
- “marriage hearse”
Key quotes for Checking Out Me History
- Repetition of “Toussaint” on lines 18 + 20
- “healing star”
Key quotes for My Last Duchess
- “I said…”
- Repetition of “stoop” on lines 32, 42 + 43
Key quotes for Remains
- “probably armed, possibly not”
- “dug in behind enemy lines”
