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”
The Charge of the Light Brigade (cannons)
“Storm’d at with shot and shell,”
The Charge of the Light Brigade (brave)
“Noble six hundred”
The Emigree (fairytale)
“There once was country…”
The Emigree (war/ personification)
“sick with tyrants”
The Emigree (memory)
“my memory of it is sunlight clear”
The Emigree (painful)
“I am branded by (…) sunlight”
The Emigree (dream/ lyrical)
“The white streets, the graceful slopes”
The Emigree (cut off from it)
“the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.”
The Emigree (trapped)
“I have no passport”
The Emigree (dark/gothic tonal shift)
“They accuse me of being dark in their free city”
Ozymandias (fairytale)
“I met a traveller from an antique land,”
Ozymandias (mocking/ weak)
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Ozymandias (isolated/time)
“Nothing beside remains”
Ozymandias (nature lasting)
“The lone level sands stretch far away.”
Ozymandias (the statue)
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Ozymandias (plaque)
“Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair”
