POETRY - POWER AND CONFLICT Flashcards
Quotes from REMAINS
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
“he’s here in my head when i close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”.
“tosses his guts back into his body”
quotes from EXPOSURE
“our brains ache”
“the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
quotes from POPPIES
“three days before armistice sunday”
“all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
quotes from C.O.T.L.B
"SHOT AND SHELL" "jaws of death" "mouth of hell" "noble six hundred" "honour the light brigade"
quotes from BAYONET CHARGE
“the patriotic tear that brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron.”
“suddenly he awoke and was running”
quotes from WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
“a hundred agonies in black and white”
“running children in nightmare heat”
quotes from KAMIIKAZE
“dark shoals of fish flashing silver”
“they treated him as though he no longer existed.”
quotes from THE EMIGREE
“i am branded by an impression of sunlight”
“my city takes me dancing”
“but my memory of it is sunlight”
quotes from CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY
“bandage up me eye with me own history”
“i carving out me identity”
“blind me to me own history”
quotes from OZYMANDIAS
“the lone level sands stretch far away”
“nothing besides remains”
“a shattered visage”
quotes from MY LAST DUCHESS
“looking as if she was alive”
“my gift of a nine hundred years old name”
“notice neptune, though/ taming a sea-horse”
quotes from TISSUE
“pages smoothed and stroked and turned”
“ paper thinned by age or touching”
quotes from extract from prelude: stealing the boat
“one summer evening (led by her)”
“nothing but the stars and grey sky”
quotes from storm on an island
“turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“pummels, exploding, spits”
quotes from london
“in every…”
“in every “
“in every” - epistrophe
“mind forged manacles”
