Poetry Flashcards

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1
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Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

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Ozymandias

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2
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Half sunk, a shattered visage lies

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Ozymnadias

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3
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Sneer of cold command

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Ozymandias

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4
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King of kings

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Ozymandias

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5
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Colossal wreck, boundless and bare

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Ozymandias

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6
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I wander through each chartered street

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London

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7
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Marks of weakness, marks of woe

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London

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8
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The mind-forged manacles I hear

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London

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9
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Chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh

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London

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10
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Plagues the marriage hearse

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London

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11
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One summer evening led by her

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Prelude

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12
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Troubled pleasure

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Prelude

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13
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A huge peak, black and huge

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Prelude

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14
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Lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake

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Prelude

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15
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There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion

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Prelude

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16
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My last Duchess

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My Last Duchess

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17
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Half-flush that dies along her throat

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My Last Duchess

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18
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My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

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My Last Duchess

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19
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I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together

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My Last Duchess

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20
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Notice Neptune

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My Last Duchess

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21
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Taming a sea-horse

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My Last Duchess

22
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Valley of death

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TCOTLB

23
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Theirs not to make reply theirs not to reason why theirs to do and die

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TCOTLB

24
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Jaws of Death … mouth of Hell

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TCOTLB

25
Q

Someone had blunder’d

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TCOTLB

26
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Noble six hundred

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TCOTLB

27
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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us

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Exposure

28
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But nothing happens

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Exposure

29
Q

Forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed

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Exposure

30
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We turn back our dying

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Exposure

31
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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

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Exposure

32
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We are prepared

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Storm on the Island

33
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Spits like a tame cat turned savage

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Storm on the island

34
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Exploding comfortably

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Storm on the island

35
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But there are no trees, no natural shelter

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Storm on the island

36
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We are bombarded by the empty air

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Storm on the island

37
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Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

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Bayonet charge

38
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He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

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Bayonet charge

39
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Patriotic tear

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Bayonet charge

40
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A yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in threshing circle

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Bayonet charge

41
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King, honour, human dignity, etcetera

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Bayonet charge

42
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On another occasion

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Remains

43
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Probably armed, possibly not

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Remains

44
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Rips through his life

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Remains

45
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Tosses his guts back into his body

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Remains

46
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His bloody life in my bloody hands

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Remains

47
Q

Tucks, darts, pleats

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Poppies

48
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The world overflowing like a treasure chest

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Poppies

49
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Release a song bird from its cage

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Poppies

50
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Leaned against it like a wishbone

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Poppies

51
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Hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind

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Poppies