Poetry quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias
‘Half sunk, a shatter’d ………………….’
‘………………….. visage lies’
Ozymandias
‘Nothing beside …………’
‘…………….. remains’
Ozymandias
‘the decay of that ………………….’
‘……………….. colossal wreck’
Exposure
‘Merciless iced east ………………….’
‘…………………. winds that knive us’
Exposure
‘Back on forgotten ………………’
‘………………. dreams’
Exposure
‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come …………………..’
‘………………………. feeling for our faces’
Exposure
‘But nothing ……………..’
‘………….. happens
Used in first and last stanza suggesting that even death doesn’t change anything
Storm on the Island
‘when it blows ………………’
‘………………… full /Blast’
Storm on the Island
‘Forgetting that it ……………………’
‘…………………….. pummels your house too.’
Storm on the Island
‘You might think that the sea is company,/ Exploding ……………………’
‘………………………………. comfortably down the cliffs’
Storm on the Island
‘We are bombarded …………………..’
‘…………………….. by the empty air.’
Remains
‘probably armed ………………..’
‘……………….. possibly not’
Remains
‘I see every round as it rips ……………’
‘……………….. through his life’
Remains
‘I see broad daylight ………………..’
‘…………………… on the other side’
Remains
‘tosses his guts …………………’
‘……………….. back into his body’
Remains
‘the drink and drugs ……………………….’
‘……………….. won’t flush him out’
Remains
‘his bloody life in …………………….’
‘…………………… my bloody hands’
War Photographer
‘spools of suffering set out ………………………..’
‘……………………….. in ordered rows’
War Photographer
‘his hands, which did not tremble then …………….’
‘……………………… though seem to now’
War Photographer
‘running children …………………’
‘………………… in a nightmare heat’
Links to Nick Ut’s photo of the napalm girl
War photographer
‘A stranger’s features faintly ……………………..’
‘……………………. start to twist before his eyes’
War photographer
‘A hundred agonies ……………………..’
‘……………………… in black and white’
Poppies
‘Slowly melting. I was ……………………..’
‘……………. brave, as I walked with you, to the front door’
Poppies
‘A split second ………………………’
‘……………………. and you were away, intoxicated’
Poppies
‘I listened, hoping to hear your ………………….’
‘……………………….. playground voice catching on the wind’
