Poems Quotes Flashcards
Highlights power, and vastness
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
A shattered legacy, half sunk
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Coldness in orders
“sneer of cold command”
The power and influence over kings
“king of kings”
Again highlights size, along with the legacy of something. Bare
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Mapped out streets, planned ordered.
“I wander through each chartered street”
Feelings/evidence of weakness and woe
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
The mentally forged cuffs that restrict people, he can hear.
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
Sibilance, onoematepia. Chimney sweeps.
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
Marriage and death
“plagues the marriage hearse”
Summer evening being led.
“One summer evening (led by her)”
Guilt/troubling
“troubled pleasure”
The power of nature, a huge immovable obeject.
“a huge peak, black and huge”
Rowing, quiet lake and the rapid dipping of the oars.
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
A feeling of dread and being abandonded/deserted.
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
Last duchess
“my last Duchess”
A half-flush death along her throat
“half-flush that dies along her throat”
Legacy thats a gift
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
Command, smiles dropped
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
God of the sea, sea horse tamed
“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse”
Valley
“valley of death”
No reply, no reason why, do and die
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
Personifying death and hell
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
Someone made a mistake
“someone had blunder’d”
Glorifying the six hundred
“Noble six hundred”
Brains hurt, personifying the iced winds
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
Nothing happens
“But nothing happens”
Lost dreams, snow dazed
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
Return to dying
“we turn back to our dying”
A small volta that changes the mood of the situation, bullets streaking the silence
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Prepared
“We are prepared”
Personifying the storm as a cat
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
This has happened before, comfortable, exploding
“exploding comfortably”
Nothing natural to shelter them
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
Military sematic, empty air hitting them
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
Bullets hitting their target and smacking it out of the air
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“
Struggling to carry his weapon, arm is injured
“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
Patriotism
“patriotic tear”
Yellow hare, rolling and describing it as something. Crawling circle
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle”
Motives being thrown out the window, etc
“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
Another occasion
“On another occasion”
Questioning if he’s armed
“probably armed, possibly not”
Violent imagery of life being torn
“rips through his life”
Tossing something back into his body
“tosses his guts back into his body”
Violent imagery of blood and life being held
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Tucks and darts
“tucks, darts, pleats”
Emotions overflowing like a chest
“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”
Imagery of hope and cheerfulness
“released a song bird from its cage”
Leaning against something, like a wishbone
“leaned against it like a wishbone”
Hoping to hear a childs voice on the wind
“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
