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Poetry quotes Flashcards

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Ozymandias
‘Half sunk, a shatter’d ………………….’

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‘………………….. visage lies’

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Ozymandias
‘Nothing beside …………’

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‘…………….. remains’

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Ozymandias
‘the decay of that ………………….’

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‘……………….. colossal wreck’

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Exposure
‘Merciless iced east ………………….’

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‘…………………. winds that knive us’

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Exposure
‘Back on forgotten ………………’

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‘………………. dreams’

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Exposure
‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come …………………..’

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‘………………………. feeling for our faces’

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Exposure
‘But nothing ……………..’

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‘………….. happens

Used in first and last stanza suggesting that even death doesn’t change anything

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Storm on the Island
‘when it blows ………………’

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‘………………… full /Blast’

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Storm on the Island
‘Forgetting that it ……………………’

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‘…………………….. pummels your house too.’

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Storm on the Island
‘You might think that the sea is company,/ Exploding ……………………’

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‘………………………………. comfortably down the cliffs’

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Storm on the Island
‘We are bombarded …………………..’

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‘…………………….. by the empty air.’

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Remains
‘probably armed ………………..’

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‘……………….. possibly not’

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Remains
‘I see every round as it rips ……………’

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‘……………….. through his life’

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Remains
‘I see broad daylight ………………..’

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‘…………………… on the other side’

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Remains
‘tosses his guts …………………’

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‘……………….. back into his body’

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Remains
‘the drink and drugs ……………………….’

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‘……………….. won’t flush him out’

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Remains
‘his bloody life in …………………….’

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‘…………………… my bloody hands’

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War Photographer
‘spools of suffering set out ………………………..’

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‘……………………….. in ordered rows’

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War Photographer
‘his hands, which did not tremble then …………….’

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‘……………………… though seem to now’

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War Photographer
‘running children …………………’

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‘………………… in a nightmare heat’

Links to Nick Ut’s photo of the napalm girl

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War photographer
‘A stranger’s features faintly ……………………..’

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‘……………………. start to twist before his eyes’

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War photographer
‘A hundred agonies ……………………..’

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‘……………………… in black and white’

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Poppies
‘Slowly melting. I was ……………………..’

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‘……………. brave, as I walked with you, to the front door’

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Poppies
‘A split second ………………………’

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‘……………………. and you were away, intoxicated’

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Poppies
‘I listened, hoping to hear your ………………….’

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‘……………………….. playground voice catching on the wind’

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