Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
name 4 quotes from ozymandias?
A
- ” two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
- “half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
- “i am ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair”
- “boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away”
2
Q
name 4 quotes from london?
A
- “i wander through each chartered street”
- “the mind forged manacles i hear”
- “every black’ning church appalls”
- “runs in blood down the palace walls”
- “blasts the new-born infants tear, and blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
3
Q
name 4 quotes from the prelude?
A
- “the horizons bound, a huge peak, black and huge”
- “one summer evening (led by her)”
- there hung a darkness”
- “upreared its head”
- ” measured motion like a living thing”
4
Q
name 4 quotes from storm on the island?
A
- “pummels”, “exploding”, “spits”
- “spits like a tamed cat turned savage”
- “exploding comfortably”
- “wind dives and strafes invisibly”
- “we are bombarded by the empty air”
5
Q
name 5 quotes from remains?
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- “legs it up thee road”
- “tosses his guts back into his body”
- “he’s here in my head when i close my eyes, dug in behind enemy limes
- “his bloody life in my bloody hands”
- “probably armed, possibly not”
- “myself and somebody else and somebody else”
- “I see every round as it rips through his life I see broad daylight on the other side”
6
Q
name 5 quotes from expo sure?
A
- “our brains ache”
- “the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
- “mad gusts tugging on the wire”
- “but nothing happens”
- “sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
7
Q
name 5 quotes from war photographer?
A
- “all flesh is grass”
- “running children in a nightmare heat”
- “blood stained into a foriegn dust”
- “the readers eyes prick with tears inbetween he bath and pre-lunch beers”
- “this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”
8
Q
name 4 quotes from charge of the light brigade?
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- “into the valley of death”
- “jaws of death” “mouth of hell”
- “honour the light brigade/Noble six hundred”
- “storm’d at with shot and shell”
9
Q
name 5 quotes from the emigree?
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- “i am branded by an impression sunlight”
- “i left it as a child
- “i comb its hair and love its shining eyes
- “sick with tyrants”
- “as time rolls it tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”
10
Q
name 5 quotes from poppies?
A
- “i was brave, as i walked with yoju to the front door”
- “all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
- “blockade” “bandaged” “reinforcements”
- “the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
- “cat hairs” “playing at being eskimos” “bedroom”
11
Q
name 4 quotes from kamikazee?
A
- “dark shoals of flashing silver”
- “they treated him as though he no longer existed”
- “was no longer the father we loved”
- “a shaven head full of powerful incantations”