Poetry Flashcards
“Our brains —-, in the ——— iced —- —– that —– us…” (E——-)
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” (Exposure)
“mind-forg’d ——–”
“mind-forg’d manacles”
“sneer of —- ——-”
“sneer of cold command”
“He must have ——–which had been the better way to —.”
“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die.”
“a ——head full of powerful ———–”
“a shaven head full of powerful incantations”
“Two —-and ——-legs of stone stand in the ——”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert”
“His blood- —–stays on the ——”
“His blood-shadow stays on the street”
“His terror’s touchy ——-.”
“His terror’s touchy dynamite.”
“Marks of ——-, marks of —”
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Spools of ——-set out in ——-rows”
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“The readers eye balls —–with tear between the —-and pre-lunch —–”
“The readers eye balls prick with tear between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
“I carving out me ——–”
“I carving out me identity”
“His —— life in my ——hands.”
“His bloody life in my bloody hands.”
“——up me own eye with me ——–.”
“Bandage up me own eye with me identity.”
”King, —–, human dignity ——–”
”King, honour, human dignity etcetera”
“but ——-happens”
“but nothing happens”
“with sidelong flowing —— that —–”
“with sidelong flowing flakes that flock”
“pale flakes with ——– stealth come feeling for our —–”
“pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
“slowly our —— drag home”
“slowly our ghosts drag home”
“pause over half-known —–. All their eyes are —”
“pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice”
“in raw-seamed hot —–”
“in raw-seamed hot khaki”
“that ——- with rifle fire”
“that dazzled with rifle fire”
“bullets smacking the —– out of the air”
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“In what cold ——— of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that ——?”
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?”
“the shot slashed ——- threw up a yellow —-“
“the shot slashed furrows threw up a yellow hare”
“probably —–, possibly not”
“probably armed, possibly not”
“i see every —- as it rips through his —-“
“i see every round as it rips through his life”
”—— his guts back into his —-“
“tosses his guts back into his body”
“and the —– and the —– won’t flush him out”
“and the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”
“dug in behind —– lines”
“dug in behind enemy lines”
“a priest ——— to intone a mass”
“a priest preparing to intone a mass”
“running children in a ——— heat”
“running children in a nightmare heat”
“a half-formed —–”
“a half-formed ghost”
“till gradually we too learned to be ——”
“till gradually we too learned to be silent”
