P+C Poetry Flashcards

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Bayonet charge

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“Etcetera”

“Was he the hand pointing that second?”

“Green hedge that dazzled with rifle fire”

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Checking out me history

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“Yellow sunrise”

“Carving put me own identity”

“Dem tell me”

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Remains

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“Blood shadow”

“We’ve hit this looter”

“And…and…and…and”

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Exposure

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“ merciless iced East winds that knive us”

“ worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious”

“ less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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“All in the valley of death”

“Cannon to the right… cannon to the left… cannon behind”

“Honour the charge they made”

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War photographer

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“ A hundred agonies… pick out five or six”

“Features faintly start to twist”

“Spoils of suffering set out on ordered rows”

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Poppies

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“Steeled the softening”

“Intoxicated”

“Dove”

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Kamikaze

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“Never spoke again in his presence”

“Like a huge flag”

“Dark shoals of fishes flashing silver”

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