Power/Conflict Flashcards
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Name 4 Quotes
“I met a traveller from an antique land.”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.”
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare.”
London by William Blake
Name 4 Quotes
“I wander through each chartered street, / Near where the chartered Thames does flow.”
“Blood down palace walls.”
“In every cry of every Man, / In every Infant’s cry of fear.”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear.”
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Name 4 Quotes
“Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward.”
“Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.”
“Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die.”
“Cannon to right of them, / Cannon to left of them, / Cannon in front of them.”
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
Name 4 Quotes
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
“Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous.”
“But nothing happens.”
“The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow…”
Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
Name 4 Quotes
“We are prepared: we build our houses squat.”
“Leaves and branches / Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale.”
“Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs.”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”
Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
Name 4 Quotes
“Suddenly he awoke and was running—raw.”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air.”
“The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye / Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest.”
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm.”
Remains by Simon Armitag
Name 4 Quotes
“On another occasion, we get sent out.”
“Probably armed, possibly not.”
“I see every round as it rips through his life.”
“His blood-shadow stays on the street.”
War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy
Name 4 Quotes
“In his darkroom he is finally alone.”
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.”
“He has a job to do.”
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white.”
Checking Out Me History by John Agard
Name 4 quotes
“Dem tell me.”
“Bandage up me eye with me own history.”
“Blind me to me own identity.”
“I carving out me identity.”
