power and conflict key quotes Flashcards
“two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
Ozymandias
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
Ozymandias
“sneer of cold command”
Ozymandias
“King of kings”
Ozymandias
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
Ozymandias
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
London
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
London
“I wander through each chartered street”
London
“Chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
London
“One summer evening (led by her)”
The Prelude
“half-flush that dies along her throat”
My last Duchess
“plagues the marriage hearse”
London
“Troubled pleasure”
The Prelude
“a huge peak, black and huge”
The Prelude
“Lustily i dipped my oars into the silent lake”
The Prelude
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude/or blank desertion”
The Prelude
“My last Duchess”
My last Duchess
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
My last Duchess
“I give commands;/ Then all smiles stopped together”
My last Duchess
“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse”
My last Duchess
“valley of death”
The charge of the light Brigade
“Theirs not to make reply/theirs not to reason why/ Theirs to do and die”
The charge of the light brigade
“jaws of death/…mouth of Hell”
The charge of the light brigade
“someone had blunder’d”
The charge of the light Brigade
“noble six hundred”
The charge of the light Brigade
“our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
Exposure
“but nothing happens”
Exposure
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
Exposure
“we turn back to our dying”
Exposure
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Exposure
“we are prepared”
Storm on the island
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
Storm on the island
“exploding comfortably”
Storm on the island
“but there are no trees, no natural shelter”
Storm on the island
“we are bombarded by the empty air”
Storm on the island
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
Bayonet charge
“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
Bayonet charge
“patriotic tear”
Bayonet charge
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/and crawled in threshing circle”
Bayonet charge
“king, honour, human dignity, etctera”
Bayonet charge
“On another occasion”
Remains
‘Probably armed possibly not “
Remains
“Rips through his life “
Remains
“Tosses his gut back into his body”
Remains
” This bloody life is my bloody hands “
Remains
“Tucks,darts,pleats”
Poppies
“The world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”
Poppies
” Released a song bird from its cage”
Poppies
“Leaned against it like a wish bone “
Poppies
“Hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
Poppies
