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Quotes for Ozymandias

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  • My name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works ye mighty and dispair
  • Half sunk a shattered visage lies
  • round the decay of that colossal wreck
  • a sneer of cold command
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The prelude

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  • small circles glittering idly in the moon
  • It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
  • The horizons bound, a huge peak black and huge
  • no familier shapes remained …a trouble to my dreams
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London

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  • Blasts the newborn infants tea; and blights with plagues the marriage hearse
  • Runs in blood down palace walls
  • Marks of weakness, marks of woe
  • mind forged manacles
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My Last Duchess

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  • Half flush that dies along her throat
  • she liked whatever she looked on
  • my last duchess painted on the wall […] will’t please you sit and look at her
  • my gift of a nine hundred year old name
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Exposure

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  • slowiy our ghosts drag
  • but nothing happens
  • dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
  • pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for faces
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storm on the island

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  • exploding comfortably […] tragic chorus
  • we are prepared; we build our houses squat
  • we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly
  • it is a huge nothing that we fear
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Bayonet charge

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  • sweating like molten iron in the centre of his chest
  • king, honor, dignity, etc.
  • his terrors touchy dynamite
  • suddenly he awoke and was running-raw
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Remains

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  • possibly armed probably not
  • i see every round as it rips through his life
  • not left for dead in some, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land
  • tosses his guts back into into his body
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Poppies

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  • Sellotape bandaged around my hand, i rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could
  • A split second and you were away, intoxicated
  • The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch
  • play at being eskimos like we did when you were little
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War Photographer

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Spools of suffering laid out in ordered rows

  • which did not tremble then (new line) though seem to now
  • A strangers features start to twist before his eyes
  • for sundays supplement
  • between the tears and pre lunch beers
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Kamikaze

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  • yes grandfathers boat” -volta
  • “flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun” - links to flag
  • “at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting”
  • “till gradually we too learnt to be silent, to live as though he had never returned”
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The Emigree

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  • My original view, the bright filled paperweight
  • it may be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight
  • I comb its hair and love it’s shining eyes
  • talk about structure
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