Quotations: Which poem does the quotation come from? Flashcards
“an antique land”
Ozymandias
“each charted street”
London
“small circles glittering idly”
Extract from, The Prelude
“…called that spot/Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek”
My Last Duchess
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
Exposure
“Honour the charge they made!”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“a tragic chorus”
Storm on the Island
“tosses his guts back into his body”
Remains
“its mouth wide/Open silent”
Bayonet Charge
“smoothed down your shirt’s/upturned collar”
Poppies
“which did not tremble then/though seem to now”
War Photographer
“an impression of sunlight”
The Emigree
“how much was sold/and what was paid”
Tissue
“Bandage up me eye with me own history”
Checking Out Me History
“no longer the father we loved”
Kamikaze
“little fishing boats/strung out like bunting”
Kamikaze
“blood stained into foreign dust”
War Photographer
“I have no passport”
The Emigree
“their borderlines, the marks/that rivers make”
Tissue
“I carving out me identity”
Checking Out Me History
“Later a single dove flew from the pear tree”
Poppies
“lone and level sands stretch far away”
Ozymandias
“a trouble to my dreams”
Extract from, The Prelude
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
Exposure
“Plunged in the battery-smoke”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“jaws of Death”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“a huge nothing that we fear”
Storm on the Island
“I see broad daylight on the other side”
Remains
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
Bayonet Charge
“All my words/flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
Poppies
“a half-formed ghost”
War Photographer
“hoping to hear/your playground voice”
Poppies
“My city takes me dancing through the city/of walls”
The Emigree
“Storm’d at with shot and shell”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“Looking as if she were alive”
My Last Duchess
“stamped on these lifeless things”
Ozymandias
“plagues the marriage hearse”
London
“a samurais sword\in the cockpit”
Kamikaze
“upreared its head. I struck and struck again”
Extract from, The Prelude
“We are prepared:”
Storm on the Island
“Slowly our ghosts drag home”
Exposure
“The reader’s eyeballs prick/with tears”
War Photographer
“flashing silver as their bellies\swivelled towards the sun”
Kamikaze
“In every …”
London
“mind-forged manacles”
London
“and I choose/Never to stoop”
My Last Duchess
“All their eyes are ice”
Exposure
“But I blink”
Remains
“his foot hung like/Statuary in mid-stride”
Bayonet Charge
“In his darkroom he is finally alone”
War Photographer
“Touissant … Napoleon … Haitian Revolution”
Checking Out Me History
“a shattered visage”
Ozymandias
“only we children chattered and laughed”
Kamikaze
“Cannon to right of them”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Exposure
“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh”
War Photographer
“de cow who jump over de moon”
Checking Out Me History
“my mother never spoke again/in his presence”
Kamikaze
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
London
“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else”
Remains
“graceful slopes/glow even clearer”
The Emigree
“A split second/and you were away, intoxicated”
Poppies
“He has a job to do”
War Photographer
“new-born infant’s tear”
London
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
My Last Duchess
“spits like a tame cat/Turned savage”
Storm on the Island
“mouth of Hell”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“and I swear”
Remains
“A hundred agonies”
War Photographer
“my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
The Emigree
“thinned by age or touching”
Tissue
“on the pedestal”
Ozymandias
“through the water like a swan”
Extract from, The Prelude
“a huge peak, black and huge”
Extract from, The Prelude
“all smiles stopped together”
My Last Duchess
“sidelong flowing flakes tat flock, pause, and renew”
Exposure
“End of story, except not really.”
Remains
“In bewilderment then he almost stopped”
Bayonet Charge
“frown/And wrinkled lip”
Ozymandias
“I gave commands”
My Last Duchess
“We cringe in holes”
Exposure
“Stumbling across a field”
Bayonet Charge
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Remains
“he stares impassively”
War Photographer
“pick out five or six”
War Photographer
“It tastes of sunlight”
The Emigree
“smoothed and stroked and turned/transparent”
Tissue
“they treated him/as though he no longer existed”
Kamikaze
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth”
Exposure
“volley’d and thunder’d”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“mad gusts tugging on the wore,/Like twitching agonies of men”
Exposure
“it pummels your house too”
Storm on the Island
“black’ning church”
London
“king of kings”
Ozymandias
“no familiar shapes … no pleasant images … no colours”
Extract from, The Prelude
“Notice Neptune, though,/Taming a sea-horse”
My Last Duchess
“Flash’d all their sabres bare”
The Charge of the Light Brigade
“Exploding comfortably”
Storm on the Island
“drink and drugs won’t flush him out -“
Remains
“Something is happening.”
War Photographer
“decay/Of that colossal wreck”
Ozymandias
“blows full/Blast”
Storm on the Island
“raw-seamed hot khaki”
Bayonet Charge
“dug in behind enemy lines”
Remains
“it may be sick with tyrants”
The Emigree
“sneer of cold command”
Ozymandias
“towered up …Strode after me”
Extract from, The Prelude
“too soon made glad/Too easily impressed”
My Last Duchess
“All that was left of them”
The Charge of the Light Brigade”
“her melancholy army/Attacks once more”
Exposure
