Poetry Quotes : War Flashcards
“his ______ life in my bloody ____”
REMIANS - “ his bloody life in my bloody hands”
“Probably ____, _______ not.”
REMAINS - “ Probably armed, possibly not.”
“he’s here in my ____ when I _____ my eyes,
___ in behind enemy _____”
REMIANS - “he’s here in my head when I close my eyes,
dug in behind enemy lines”
“with ______ of _________ set out in _______ rows.”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - “with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
” A ________ features
faintly start to _____ before his eyes,
a half-______ _____.”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - “A strangers features
faintly start to twist before his eyes,
a half-formed ghost.”
“from which an ______ will pick out ____ or ___”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER - “from which an editor will pick out 5 or 6”
” a ______ head
full of powerful _________”
KAMIKAZE - “a shaven head
full of powerful incantations”
“______ swathes
like a huge ____ waved …
in a ______ of eight”
KAMIKAZE - “arcing swathes
like a huge flag waved …
in a figure of eight”
“he must’ve _______
which had been a ______ way to ___”
KAMIKAZE - “he must’ve wondered
which had been a better way to die”
“Not tho’ the _______ knew
Some one had _________”
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE -
“Not tho’ the soldiers knew
some one had blunder’d”
“Into the ____ of _____,”
Into the mouth of ____”
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE -
“Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell”
“______ the charge they made!
Honour the Light ______,
_____ six hundred!”
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE -
“Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light brigade,
Noble six hundred!”
