Power And Conflict Poems Flashcards
What are some key quotes in Storm On the Island?
“We are prepared”
“It is a huge nothing that we fear”
“Exploding comfortably”
“Blast”“Pummels”
“Tame cat turned savage”
“Bombarded by the empty air”
What are some key quotes in Ozymandias?
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; /Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” …
“Nothing beside remains.” …
“Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” …
“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;”
What are some key quotes in My Last Duchess?
‘my last duchess painted on the wall’ …
‘looking as if she were alive’ …
‘will’t please you sit and look at her’ …
‘none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you’ …
‘her husbands presence only, called that spot of joy into the duchess’ cheek’ …
‘flush that dies along her throat’ …
‘too soon made glad, too easily Impressed’
What are some key quotes in Remains?
one of them legs it up the. road’ …
‘every round as it rips. through his life’ …
‘his bloody life in my bloody. hands’ …
“On another occasion”
probably armed, possibly not” …
“rips through his life” …
“tosses his guts back into his body” …
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
What are some key quotes in exposure?
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“But nothing happens”
“we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, / Like twitching agonies of men”
“What are we doing here?” …
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
What are some key quotes in bayonet charge?
“Suddenly he awoke”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“A rifle as numb as a smashed arm” …
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations” …
“His terrors touchy dynamite”
What are some key quotes in War Photographer?
“Spools of Suffering”
“All flesh is grass”
“Beneath his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now”
“Rural England”
“Home again/To ordinary pain which weather can dispel”
What are some key quotes in kamikaze?
“Shoals of fishes flashing silver”
Turbulent inrush” …
“This was no longer the father we loved” …
“Which had been the better way to die” …
“As though he no longer existed” …
“Remembered how he and his brothers”
“loose silver of whitebait” …
“Bringing their father’s boat safe … …
“My mother never spoke again in his presence”
What are some key quotes in London?
“I wander through each chartered street”
In every face i meet/marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Every black’ning church appals,” …
“Runs of blood down palace walls”
What are some key quotes in Extract in the Prelude?
“One summer evening (led by her)” …
“Straight I unloosed her chain” …
“Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted into a tack of light” …
“She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake” …
“When, from behind that craggy steep… …
“Upreared its head”
What are some key quotes in Charge of the Light Brigade?
“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward,” …
“Rode the six hundred.” …
“Strom’d at with shot and shell,” …
“Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of hell” …
“The sabre stroke shatter’d and sunder’d.” …
“Honour the charge they made!”
What are some key quotes in Checking out me History?
“Dem tell me” Repetition throughout the poem, emphasises the separateness of the british educational system from himself. …
“Bandage up me own eye with me own history” …
“Blind me to me own identity” …
“Dem tell me about 1066 and all dat” …
“Touissant.” …
“Napoleon… …
“with vision” & “beacon” …
“De cow who jump over de moon”
