Poetry Flashcards
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Bayonet Charge
The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eyes
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Bayonet Charge
Suddenly he awoke and he was running-raw
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Bayonet Charge
Threw up like a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
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Bayonet Charge
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
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Remains
He’s here in my head when I close my eyes
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Remains
I see broad daylight on the other side
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Remains
Probably armed, possibly not
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Remains
his bloody life in my blood hands
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Remains
His blood-shadow stays on the street
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Exposure
Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
What is Exposure about?
How men in the trenches were more affected by the weather than any other aspects of war.
What is my last Duchess about?
A duke had his wife killed because he was jealous and thought she was flirting with other men.
What is Bayonet charge about?
A soldier who has to fight from the moment he wakes up.
What is the Remains about?
A soldier who returns from war with PTSD.
What is the emigree about?
Someone who has to leave their war torn country and is struggling to belong.
What is the context around Bayonet charge?
Ted Hughes’s father fought in world war one. He saw the emotional toll that took on him after he came back traumatised. Hughes didn’t approve of war and wanted to use the poem to show the brutality of war and me memorialise it as a warning.
What is the context of Remains?
Could be based around the war in Iran, poem presented in the desert, which was only caused because of greed. The poem condemns unnecessary violence and also tries to incite sympathy for the soldiers who fought by presenting the realities of PTSD.
What is the context of Remains?
Could be based around the war in Iran, poem presented in the desert, which was only caused because of greed. The poem condemns unnecessary violence and also tries to incite sympathy for the soldiers who fought by presenting the realities of PTSD.
What is the context of Exposure?
Owens fought in WW1, he wanted to show the realities of war as in 1917 people romanticised it a lot.
What is the context of the Emigree?
Focuses on the relationship between identity and culture and shows the displacement and upheaval of local people who need to flee their home country.
What is the context of My Last Duchess?
The Duke was likely to be based on Alfonso II, the fifth Duke of Ferrara as his wife also died in suspicious circumstances. Set during Italian Renaissance.
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My last Duchess
The curtains I have drawn for you
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My last Duchess
Too easily impressed.
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My last Duchess
She liked what’er she looked on and her looks went everywhere.
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My last Duchess
The piece wonder now: Fra Pandolf’s hands
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My last Duchess
I gave commands and all smiles stopped.
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The emigree
my city hides behind me
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The emigree
there once was a country…
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The emigree
I comb its hair and love its shining eyes
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The emigree
Tastes of sunlight
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The emigree
It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants
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Exposure
Slowly our ghosts drag home
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Exposure
Sudden succesive flights of bullets streak the silence
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poignant misery of dawn begins to grow
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Exposure
sentries whisper, curious, nervous…
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our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds thar knife us
