Poetry - Quotes Flashcards
War Photographer
‘spools of suffering’
‘as though..he is a priest preparing to intone a mass’
‘a strangers features start to twist…a half-formed ghost’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white
from which his editor will pick out five or six’
Kamikaze
‘a samurai sword..a shaven head full of powerful incantations’
‘green-blue translucent sea’
‘he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats’
‘he must have wondered which had been a better way to die’
3rd person reported speech, absence of father’s voice shows distance
Checking Out Me History
‘Bandage up me eye with me own history’
‘Toussaint a slave with vision’
‘Nanny see-far woman…fire-woman’
‘But now I checking out me history / I carving out me own identity’
Ozymandias
‘sneer of cold command’
‘boundless and bare’
‘King of kings’
‘Look on my works ye mighty and despair!’
‘The lone and level sands stretch far away’
ozium - to breathe, mandias - to rule
The Charge of the Light Brigade
‘Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.’
‘Theirs but to do and die’
‘When can their glory fade?’
‘Honour’
The Prelude
‘Straight I unloosened her chain..it was an act of stealth.’
‘Towered up between me and the stars’
‘No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images’
‘But huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men’
Storm on the Island
‘We are prepared, we build our houses squat…with good slate’
‘Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’
‘You might think the sea is company..exploding comfortably’
‘bombarded by the empty air..it is a huge nothing that we fear’
