POEMS Flashcards

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OZYMANDIAS-

trunkless legs

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two vast and trunkless legs of stone

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OZYMANDIAS-

command

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sneer of cold command

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3
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OZYMANDIAS-

bare

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boundless and bare

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4
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LONDON-

chartered

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i wander through each chartered street

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5
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LONDON-

marks

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marks of weakness marks of woe

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6
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LONDON-

tear

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newborn infants tear

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7
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THE PRELUDE-

huge

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huge peak black and huge

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8
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THE PRELUDE-

turning around

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with trembling oars i turned

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9
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THE PRELUDE-

negative quote about nature at the end of poem- contrasts with the first half

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no pleasant images of trees

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10
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MY LAST DUCHESS-

look at her

A

whilt you please sit and look at her

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MY LAST DUCHESS-

the wife blushing

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spot of joy

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12
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MY LAST DUCHESS-

commands

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i have commands and all smiles stopped together

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13
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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BREGADE-

jaws

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the jaws of death

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14
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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BREGADE-

no reason to be there but die

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there’s not a reason why

theirs but to do and die

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15
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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BREGADE-

world

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all the world wondered

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16
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EXPOSURE-

wind

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ice east winds that knife us

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17
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EXPOSURE-

repetition

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but nothing happens

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18
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EXPOSURE-

at the end - emotional

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slowly our ghosts drag home

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19
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STORM KN THE ISLAND-

oxymoron

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exploding comfortably

20
Q

STORM ON THE ISLAND-

casual saying - like it’s normal

A

you know what i mean

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STORM ON THE ISLAND-

metaphor for it being pointless

A

are bombarded by the empty air

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BAYONET CHARGE -

first line

A

suddenly he awoke and was running

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BAYONET CHARGE-

the man doesn’t know what he’s doing

A

like a man who has jumped up in the dark

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BAYONET CHARGE-

his terror is getting too much - he’s fragile and week

A

his terrors touchy dinamite

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REMAINS- alliteration
probably armed possibly not
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REMAINS- in caring tone
there on the ground sort of inside out
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REMAINS- guilt
his bloody life in my bloody hands
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POPPIES- mother like
smoother down your shirts
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POPPIES- when he leaves
a split second and you were away
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POPPIES- thinking back to when he was little
your playground voice catching on the wind
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER- suffering
spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER- colour imagery
the only light is red
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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER- ghosts
a half formed ghost
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THE EMIGREE- memory
my memory of it is sunlight clear
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THE EMIGREE- colour imagery
the white streets of that city
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THE EMIGREE- near the end when it turns negative - volta
they accuse me of absence
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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY- blind
blind to me own identity
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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY- history
a slave
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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY- the end - finding out his own history and identity
but now i checking out me own history | i carving out me identity
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KAMIKAZE- the sea
green blue translucent sea
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KAMIKAZE- the fish
fishes flashing silver
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KAMIKAZE- the end
he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
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TISSUE- how easy you can ruin it
see how easy they fall away on a sigh
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TISSUE- how it’s thinned/ ruined
paper thinned by age or touching
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TISSUE- compares it to human body
thinned and transparent | turned into your skin