Power And Conflict Quote Memorisation

Question 1

London
‘M o w, m o w’

Answer 1

‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’

Question 2

London
‘M-f m I h’

Answer 2

‘Mind-forged manacles I hear’

Question 3

London
‘h s s // R i b d p w’

Answer 3

‘hapless soldier’s sigh // Runs in blood down palace walls’

Question 4

London
‘t y h c’

Answer 4

‘the youthful harlot’s curse.’

Question 5

London
‘b w p t M h’

Answer 5

‘blights with plagues the Marriage hearse’

Question 6

Storm on the Island
‘W a p’

Answer 6

‘We are prepared’

Question 7

Storm on the Island
‘W j s t w w d’

Answer 7

‘We just sit tight while wind dives’

Question 8

Storm on the Island
‘L t t t y f // F t i p y h t’

Answer 8

‘Listen to the thing you fear // Forgetting that it pummels your house too’

Question 9

Storm on the Island
‘I i a h n t w f’

Answer 9

‘It is a huge nothing that we fear’

Question 10

Exposure
‘O b a, i t m i e w t k u // W w k a b t n i s’

Answer 10

‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us . . . // Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . //’

Question 11

Exposure
‘T m g t o t w’

Answer 11

‘The mad gusts tugging on the wire’

Question 12

Exposure
‘P o h-k f. T e a i’

Answer 12

‘Pause over half-known faces. Their eyes are ice’

Question 13

Exposure
‘I i t w a d?’

Answer 13

‘Is it that we are dying?’

Question 14

Exposure
‘B n h’

Answer 14

‘But nothing happens’

Question 15

Remains
‘O a o, w g s o’

Answer 15

‘On another occasion, we got sent out’

Question 16

Remains
‘I s e r a i r t h l’

Answer 16

‘I see every round as it rips through his life - //‘

Question 17

Remains
‘S w h t l a d t’

Answer 17

‘So we’ve hit this looter a dozen times’

Question 18

Remains
‘O o m m g b a t h g b i h b’

Answer 18

‘One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body’

Question 19

Remains
‘B n t t k, h a n, h b l i m b h’

Answer 19

‘But near to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands.’

Question 20

Ozymandias
‘I m a t f a a l’

Answer 20

‘I met a traveller from an antique land’

Question 21

Ozymandias
‘A w l, a s o c c’

Answer 21

‘And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’

Question 22

Ozymandias
‘T h t m t, a t h t f’

Answer 22

‘The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed’

Question 23

Ozymandias
‘L o m w, y m, a d’

Answer 23

‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair’

Question 24

Ozymandias
‘O t c w’

Answer 24

‘Of that colossal Wreck’

Question 25

The Emigrée
‘I l i a a c… b m m o i i s c’

Answer 25

‘I left it as a child… but my memory of it is sunlight clear’

Question 26

The Emigrée
‘T w n I r c b // m o v’

Answer 26

‘The worst news I receive of it cannot break // my original view.’

Question 27

The Emigrée
‘I m b a w, i m b s w t, // b i a b b a i o s’

Answer 27

‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, // but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.’

Question 28

The Emigrée
‘T c v I c h // l a h d”

Answer 28

‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here // like a hollow doll’

Question 29

The Emigrée
‘I c I h a l i s e’

Answer 29

‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes.’

Question 30

The Emigrée
‘M c h b m. T m d // a m s f a e o s’

Answer 30

‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death, // and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’

Question 31

The Emigrée
‘T a m o a, t c m’

Answer 31

‘They accuse me of absence, they circle me.’