Poetry Anthology Quotes Flashcards

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The prelude

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  • «As if with voulentary power upreared it’s head»
  • «Like a living thing strode after me»
  • «O’er my thoughts there hung a darkness»
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Storm on the island

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  • «It’s a huge nothing that we fear»
  • «Spits like a tamed cat turned savage»
  • «Exploding comfortably»
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Ozymandias

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  • «King of kings»
  • «Look on my works… and despair»
  • «Shattered vissage»
  • «Cold command»
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Exposure

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  • «But nothing happens»
  • «Winds that knive us»
  • «Pale flakes with fingering stealth»
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My last duchess

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  • «Nine hundred year old name»
  • «I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together»
  • «Bough of cherries some officious fool» - materialism
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London

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  • «In every infants cry of fear»
  • «Youthful harlots curse»
  • «Marks» «marks of weakness, marks of woe»
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Charge of the light brigade

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  • «rode the 6 hundred»
  • «Valley of death»
  • «was there a man dismayed»
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Bayonet charge

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  • «Cold clockwork»
  • «Suddenly he awoke and was running» - first line
  • « he lugged a rifle as numb as a smashed arm»
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Checking out me history

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  • «Dem tell me»
  • «Blind to me own identity»
  • «Bandage up me eye with me own history»
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Thé émigrée

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  • «They accuse me»
  • «i am branded by an impression of sunlight»
  • «My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight»
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Remains

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  • «It rips through his life»
  • «His blood shadow stays on the street»
  • «His bloody life in my bloody hands»
  • «Probably armed possibly not»
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Poppies

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  • «Thé world overflowing like a treasure chest»
  • «Sellotape bandaged around my hand»
  • «I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose»
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Kamikaze

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  • «Which had been the better way to die»
  • «Full of powerful incarnations»
  • «Was no longer the father we loved»
  • «They treated his as though he no longer existed»
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War photographer

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  • «They do not care»
  • «He has a job to do»
  • «a half formed ghost»
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Tissue

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  • « smoothed and stroked»
  • «Fly our lives like paper kites»
  • «Layer over layer»
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