Poetry Flashcards
Checking Out Me History (repeated phrase)
“Dem tell me /Wha dem want to tell me”
Checking Out Me History (marxism)
“Bandage up me eye with me own history”
Checking Out Me History (End- powerful)
“But now I checking out me own history /I carving out me own identity”
War Photographer (Start- ironic)
“he is finally alone”
War Photographer (suffering)
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
War Photographer (blunt & methodical)
“He has a job to do”
War Photographer (pictures & pain)
“A hundred agonies in black and white”
War Photographer (readers)
“The reader’s eyeballs prick between the bath and pre-lunch beers.”
London (universal)
“In every cry of every man”
London (trapped)
“The mind-forged manacles”
London (church)
“Every black’ning church appalls,”
London (monarchy)
“Runs in blood down palace walls.”
London (life is short)
“marriage hearse”
The Charge of the Light Brigade (war drags on/exhausted)
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward,”
The Charge of the Light Brigade (no power)
“Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs to do and die”
