Power And Conflict Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

Ozymandias

A

Look on my works, Ye mighty, and despair!

Decay of that colossal wreck

Lifeless things

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London

A

Marks of weakness, marks of woe

In every cry of every man

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse

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3
Q

The prelude (extract)

A

There hung a darkness

The grim shape towered up between me and the stars

Troubled pleasure

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4
Q

My last duchess

A

This grew; i gave commands; then all smiles stopped together

Cast in bronze for me

Looking as if she were alive

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5
Q

Charge of the light brigade

A

The valley of death

All the world wondered

Noble sixhundred

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6
Q

Exposure

A

For the love of god seems dying

Our brains ache

But nothing happens

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7
Q

Storm on the island

A

We are bombarded by the empty air

Huge nothing

We are prepared

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8
Q

Bayonet charge

A

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

In bewilderedness then he almost stopped

Lugged a rifle

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9
Q

Remains

A

Probably armed, possibly not

Every round as it rips through his life

His blood-shadow stays on the street

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10
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Poppies

A

Hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind

War graves

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11
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War photographer

A

Spools of suffering

All flesh is grass

He earns his living and they do not care

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12
Q

Tissue

A

Turned into your skin

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13
Q

The emigree

A

There was once a country

The worst news i receive of it cannot break my original view

I am branded by an impression of sunlight

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14
Q

Checking out me history

A

Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me

Bandage up me eye with me own history

I carving out me identity

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15
Q

Kamikaze

A

Enough fuel for a one-way journey

We too learned to be silent

He must have wondered which had been the better way to die

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