Poetry Flashcards
Ozymadias
“Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck”
London
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
The prelude
A huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct
My last duchess
Then all smiles stopped together. there she stands as if alive. Will’t please you rise
the charge of the light brigade
Into the valley of death
rode the six hundred
exposure
“what are we doing here?”
“but nothing happens”
Storm on the island
“we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly”
Bayonet charge
“Like a mum who has jumped up in the dark and runs”
Remains
“i see every round as it rips through his life”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Poppies
“play at being eskimos like we did when you were little”
War photographer
“a strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost.”
Tissue
” what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites.”
the emigree
“there once was a country… i left it as a child”
Checking out me history
” bandage up me eye with me own history
blind me to me own identity”
Kamikaze
“flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun”
