Power and Conflict quotes Flashcards
Quotes for Ozymandius
“King of kings”
“A shattered visage lies”
“boundless and bare”
“Decay of that colossal wreck”
Quotes for London
“runs in blood down palace walls”
“Every infant’s cry of fear”
“blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
“mind-forged manacles”
Quotes for Storm on the Island
“Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
“We are prepared”
“Exploding comfortably”
“Leaves and branches can rage a tragic chorus”
Quotes for Checking Out Me History
“No dem never tell me bout dat”
“Blinding me to my identity”
“Mountain dream”
Quotes for My Last Duchess
“Will’t you please sit and look at her”
“She liked whatever she looked on”
“I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together”
Quotes for Bayonet Charge
“Rifle numb as a smashed arm”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Patriotic tear”
“King, honour, human dignity etc dropped like luxuries”
Quotes for Charge of the Light Brigade
“Rode the six hundred”
“Valley of Death”
“Not to make reply, not to reason why but to do and die”
“Jaws of Death”
“Mouth of hell”
“They had fought so well”
Quotes for Exposure
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“Black with snow”
“Slowly our ghosts drag home”
Quotes for Poppies
“world overflowing like a treasure chest”
“Smoothed down your shirt”
“Released a single songbird from its cage”
“Hoping to hear your playground voice cathcing on the wind”
Quotes for Remains
“possibly armed possibly not”
“all the drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
“His blood shadow stays on the street”
“Rips through his life”
Quotes for The Prelude
“Troubled dreams”
“There hung a darkness called solitude”
“glittering idly”
“Upreared it’s head”
Quotes for the Emigree
“But I am branded with sunlight”
“There was a country…”
“Mutter death and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
Quotes for War Photographer
“eyeballs pricked with tears”
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“Running children in nightmare heat”
“A half-formed ghost”
