Poetry Flashcards

1
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“I am Branded by an Impression of Sunlight”

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The Emegrée

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2
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“Theirs Not to Make Reply,
Theirs Not to Reason Why,
Theirs But to Do and Die,”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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3
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“Someone Had Blunder’d”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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4
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“Lick Back Napoleon Battalion”

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Checking Out me History

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5
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“Strange, it is a Huge Nothing that we Fear”

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Storm on the Island

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6
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“Carted Off in the Back of a Lorry”

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Remains

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7
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“Which Had Been the Better Way to Die”

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Kamikaze

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8
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“Paper Smoothed and Stroked and Thinned to be Transparent”

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Tissue

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9
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“Your Playground Voice Catching on the Wind”

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Poppies

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10
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“How the Blood stained into Foreign Dust”

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War Photographer

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11
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“Leaned Against it Like a Wishbone”

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Poppies

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12
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“A Flask of Water, a Samurai Sword”

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Kamikaze

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13
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“Rode the Six Hundred”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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14
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“I Carving Out me Identity”

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Checking Out me History

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15
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“And de Cow Who Jumped Over de Moon”

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Checking Out me History

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16
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“They that had Fought so Well”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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17
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“My Shadow Falls as Evidence of Sunlight”

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The Emegrée

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18
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“Spasms of Paper Red”

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Poppies

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19
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“Flashing Silver as their Bellies Swivelled Towards the Sun”

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Kamikaze

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20
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“The Drink and the Drugs Won’t Flush Him Out”

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Remains

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21
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“Threw up a Yellow Hare that Rolled Like a Flame”

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Bayonet charge

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22
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“His Terrors Touchy Dynamite”

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Bayonet charge

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23
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“And Never Wish to Build Again with Brick”

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Tissue

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24
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“I See Every Round as it Rips Through His Life”

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Remains

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25
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“The World Overflowing Like a Treasure Chest”

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Poppies

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26
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“Hopeful Stream”

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Checking Out me History

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27
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“Paper Thinned by Age or Touching”

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Tissue

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28
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“Dem Tell Me Bout 1066 and All Dat”

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Checking Out me History

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29
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“But Nothing Happens”

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Exposure

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30
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“Written in the Names and Histories”

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Tissue

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31
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“I Wander Through Each Chartered Street, Near Where the Chartered Thames Does Flow”

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London

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32
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“Six-feet-under in Desert Sand”

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Remains

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33
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“Nothing Beside Remains”

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Ozymandias

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34
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“The Horizon’s Bound, a Huge Peak, Black and Huge”

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The Prelude

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35
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“The Poignant Misery of Dawn Begins to Grow”

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Exposure

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36
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“The Wizened Earth Has Never Troubled Us”

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Storm on the Island

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37
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“Bullets Smacking the Belly Out of the Air”

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Bayonet Charge

38
Q

“Proud of His Skill, to Reach a Chosen Point with an Unswerving Line”

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The Prelude

39
Q

“End of Story Except Not Really”

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Remains

40
Q

“Lustily I Dipped My Oars into the Silent Lake”

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The Prelude

41
Q

“Too Soon Made Glad, Too easily Impressed”

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My Last Duchess

42
Q

“A Tuna, the Dark Prince Muscular, Dangerous”

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Kamikaze

43
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“I gave Commands; Then All Smiles Stopped Together”

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My Last Duchess

44
Q

“Huge and Mighty Forms”

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The Prelude

45
Q

“I Have No Passport, there’s No Way back at All”

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The Emegrée

46
Q

“Listening Between His Footfalls for the Reason”

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Bayonet Charge

47
Q

“Into the Jaws of Death, into the Mouth of Hell”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

48
Q

“Noble Six Hundred”

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

49
Q

“We Watch them Wandering Up and Down the Wind’s Nonchalance”

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Exposure

50
Q

“Low Drooping Flares Confuse Our Memory of the Salient”

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Exposure

51
Q

“He Earns His Living and they Do Not Care”

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War Photographer

52
Q

“Ordinary Pain Which Simple Weather Can Dispel”

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War Photographer

53
Q

“There She Stands as if Alive”

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My Last Duchess

54
Q

“Probably Armed Possibly Not”

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Remains

55
Q

“The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away”

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Ozymandias

56
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“With Living Tissue Raised a Structure never Meant to Last”

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Tissue

57
Q

“As if She Ranked My Gift of a Nine-hundred Year Old Name with Anybody’s Gift”

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My Last Duchess

58
Q

“You Were Away, Intoxicated”

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Poppies

59
Q

“Notice Neptune Though taming a Sea Horse”

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My Last Duchess

60
Q

“A Hundred Agonies in Black-and-white”

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War Photographer

61
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“A Yellow Sunrise to the Dying”

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Checking Out me History

62
Q

“Sellotape Bandaged Around My Hand”

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Poppies

63
Q

“Less Deadly then the Air that Shudders Black with Snow”

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Exposure

64
Q

“The Hand that Mocked them and the Heart that Fed”

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Ozymandias

65
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“Half Sunk , a Shattered Visage Lies”

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Ozymandias

66
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“King, Honour, human Dignity, Etcetra Dropped Like Luxuries”

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Bayonet Charge

67
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“Spits Like a Tame Cat Turned Savage”

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Storm on the Island

68
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“You Might Think that the Sea is Company”

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Storm on the Island

69
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“Every Black’ning Church Appals”

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London

70
Q

“Two vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone”

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Ozymandias

71
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“They Accuse Me of Being Dark in their Free City”

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The Emegrée

72
Q

“Between the Bath and Pre-lunch Beers”

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War Photographer

73
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“In Every Cry of Every Man,
In Every Infant’s Cry of Fear,
In Every Voice, in Every Ban,”

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London

74
Q

“Can Raise a Tragic Chorus in a Gale”

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Storm on the Island

75
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“The Worst news I Receive of it Cannot Break My Original View”

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The Emegrée

76
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“Till Gradually we too Learned to be Silent”

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Kamikaze

77
Q

“From Which His Editor Will Pick Out Five or Six”

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War Photographer

78
Q

“Turned into Your Skin”

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Tissue

79
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“tosses His Guts back into His Body”

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Remains

80
Q

“Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair”

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Ozymandias

81
Q

“And I Choose Never to Stoop”

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My Last Duchess

82
Q

“With Trembling Oars I Turned and Through the Silent Water Stole My Way”

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The Prelude

83
Q

“The Frontiers Rise Between us, Close Like Waves”

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The Emegrée

84
Q

“Is it that We Are Dying”

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Exposure

85
Q

“Raw-seamed Hot Khaki”

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Bayonet Charge

86
Q

“Enough Fuel for a One-way Journey into History”

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Kamikaze

87
Q

“She was an Elfin Pinnace”

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The Prelude

88
Q

“Mind-forged Manacles”

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London

89
Q

“His Bloody Life in My Bloody Hands”

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Remains

90
Q

“And the Hapless Soldier’s Sigh Runs in Blood Down Palace Walls”

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London

91
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“Exploding Comfortably Down on the Cliffs”

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Storm on the Island

92
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“blights with Plagues the marriage Hearse”

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London