Poetry Language Flashcards
London
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
Checking out me history
“Blind to me own identity”
“Dem tell me” - repetition
Storm on the island
“Tamed cat turned savage”
“Exploding comfortably” - oxymoron
Ozymandius
“A sneer of cold command”
“King of Kings”
The charge of the light brigade
“Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of Hell”
“Rode the six hundred” - repetition
The Prelude
“Upreared its head”
“There hung a darkness, lets call its solitude”
My last duchess
“Looking as if she were alive”
“My gift of my nine hundred year old name”
Exposure
“The merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“But nothing happens” - cyclical structure
Bayonet charge
“Droppped like luxuries”
“His terrors touchy dynamite”
Remains
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
“Tosses his guts back into his body
Poppies
“Released a song-bird from its cage”
“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
War photographer
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
Tissue
“Lets the light shine through”
“Written in names and in history”
The emigree
“It may be sick with tyrants”
“I am branded with an impression of sunlight” - repetition of sunlight
Kamikaze
“As though he no longer existed”
“Turbulent inrush”
