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quotes for exposure

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“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“our brains ache”
“for our love of god seems dying”
“but nothing happens” - refrain

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quotes for remains

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“blood-shadow”
“he’s here is my head when i close my eyes”
“tossed his guts back in his body”
“probably armed, possibly not”

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quotes for the prelude

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“one summer evening (led by her)”
“troubled pleasure”
“a huge peak, black and huge”
“as if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head”

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quotes for storm on the Island

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“spits like a tame cat turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“blasts” and “pummels” and “bombarded by empty air”
“it is a huge nothing that we fear”

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quotes for ozymandias

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“wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
“the lone and level sands stretch far away”
“half sunk and a shattered visage lies”

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quotes for war photographer

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“with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“hundred of agonies” contrasting with the “five or six” picked
“blood stained into foreign dust”

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quotes for my last duchess

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“notice neptune taming a sea-horse”
“wil’t you please sit and look at her”
“my gift of a nine-hundred year old name”

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quotes for charge of the light brigade

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“noble six-hundred”
“into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell”
“honour the light brigade”
“half a league, half a league, half a league onward”

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quotes for bayonet charge

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“a rifle as numb as a smashed arm”
“a patriotic tear”
“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries”

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quotes for kamikaze

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“he must have wondered which has been the better way to die”
“one-way journey into history”
“a shaven head full of incantations”

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what can you compare remains to (give authors of both)

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exposure - Owen
remains - armitage

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what can you compare bayonet charge to (give authors of both)

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charge of the light brigade - tennyson
bayonet charge - Hughs

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what can you compare the prelude to (give authors of both)

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storm on the island - Heaney
the prelude - wordsworth

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what can you compare ozymandias to (give authors of both)

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My last duchess - Browning
Ozymandias - Shelley

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what can you compare kamikaze to (give authors of both)

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The emigree - Rumens
kamikaze - garland

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what can you compare war photographer to (give authors of both)

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poppies - weir
War photographer - carol ann duffy

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quotes for poppies

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“spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade”
“your playground voice catching in the wind”
“released a song bird from it’s cage”

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