Quotations: Which poem does the quotation come from? Flashcards
1
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“an antique land”
A
Ozymandias
2
Q
“each charted street”
A
London
3
Q
“small circles glittering idly”
A
Extract from, The Prelude
4
Q
“…called that spot/Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek”
A
My Last Duchess
5
Q
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
A
Exposure
6
Q
“Honour the charge they made!”
A
The Charge of the Light Brigade
7
Q
“a tragic chorus”
A
Storm on the Island
8
Q
“tosses his guts back into his body”
A
Remains
9
Q
“its mouth wide/Open silent”
A
Bayonet Charge
10
Q
“smoothed down your shirt’s/upturned collar”
A
Poppies
11
Q
“which did not tremble then/though seem to now”
A
War Photographer
12
Q
“an impression of sunlight”
A
The Emigree
13
Q
“how much was sold/and what was paid”
A
Tissue
14
Q
“Bandage up me eye with me own history”
A
Checking Out Me History
15
Q
“no longer the father we loved”
A
Kamikaze
16
Q
“little fishing boats/strung out like bunting”
A
Kamikaze
17
Q
“blood stained into foreign dust”
A
War Photographer
18
Q
“I have no passport”
A
The Emigree
19
Q
“their borderlines, the marks/that rivers make”
A
Tissue
20
Q
“I carving out me identity”
A
Checking Out Me History
21
Q
“Later a single dove flew from the pear tree”
A
Poppies
22
Q
“lone and level sands stretch far away”
A
Ozymandias
23
Q
“a trouble to my dreams”
A
Extract from, The Prelude
24
Q
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
A
Exposure
25
"Plunged in the battery-smoke"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
26
"jaws of Death"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
27
"a huge nothing that we fear"
Storm on the Island
28
"I see broad daylight on the other side"
Remains
29
"King, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
Bayonet Charge
30
"All my words/flattened, rolled, turned into felt"
Poppies
31
"a half-formed ghost"
War Photographer
32
"hoping to hear/your playground voice"
Poppies
33
"My city takes me dancing through the city/of walls"
The Emigree
34
"Storm'd at with shot and shell"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
35
"Looking as if she were alive"
My Last Duchess
36
"stamped on these lifeless things"
Ozymandias
37
"plagues the marriage hearse"
London
38
"a samurais sword\in the cockpit"
Kamikaze
39
"upreared its head. I struck and struck again"
Extract from, The Prelude
40
"We are prepared:"
Storm on the Island
41
"Slowly our ghosts drag home"
Exposure
42
"The reader's eyeballs prick/with tears"
War Photographer
43
"flashing silver as their bellies\swivelled towards the sun"
Kamikaze
44
"In every ..."
London
45
"mind-forged manacles"
London
46
"and I choose/Never to stoop"
My Last Duchess
47
"All their eyes are ice"
Exposure
48
"But I blink"
Remains
49
"his foot hung like/Statuary in mid-stride"
Bayonet Charge
50
"In his darkroom he is finally alone"
War Photographer
51
"Touissant ... Napoleon ... Haitian Revolution"
Checking Out Me History
52
"a shattered visage"
Ozymandias
53
"only we children chattered and laughed"
Kamikaze
54
"Cannon to right of them"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
55
"Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"
Exposure
56
"Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh"
War Photographer
57
"de cow who jump over de moon"
Checking Out Me History
58
"my mother never spoke again/in his presence"
Kamikaze
59
"Marks of weakness, marks of woe"
London
60
"Well myself and somebody else and somebody else"
Remains
61
"graceful slopes/glow even clearer"
The Emigree
62
"A split second/and you were away, intoxicated"
Poppies
63
"He has a job to do"
War Photographer
64
"new-born infant's tear"
London
65
"My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"
My Last Duchess
66
"spits like a tame cat/Turned savage"
Storm on the Island
67
"mouth of Hell"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
68
"and I swear"
Remains
69
"A hundred agonies"
War Photographer
70
"my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight"
The Emigree
71
"thinned by age or touching"
Tissue
72
"on the pedestal"
Ozymandias
73
"through the water like a swan"
Extract from, The Prelude
74
"a huge peak, black and huge"
Extract from, The Prelude
75
"all smiles stopped together"
My Last Duchess
76
"sidelong flowing flakes tat flock, pause, and renew"
Exposure
77
"End of story, except not really."
Remains
78
"In bewilderment then he almost stopped"
Bayonet Charge
79
"frown/And wrinkled lip"
Ozymandias
80
"I gave commands"
My Last Duchess
81
"We cringe in holes"
Exposure
82
"Stumbling across a field"
Bayonet Charge
83
"his bloody life in my bloody hands"
Remains
84
"he stares impassively"
War Photographer
85
"pick out five or six"
War Photographer
86
"It tastes of sunlight"
The Emigree
87
"smoothed and stroked and turned/transparent"
Tissue
88
"they treated him/as though he no longer existed"
Kamikaze
89
"Pale flakes with fingering stealth"
Exposure
90
"volley'd and thunder'd"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
91
"mad gusts tugging on the wore,/Like twitching agonies of men"
Exposure
92
"it pummels your house too"
Storm on the Island
93
"black'ning church"
London
94
"king of kings"
Ozymandias
95
"no familiar shapes ... no pleasant images ... no colours"
Extract from, The Prelude
96
"Notice Neptune, though,/Taming a sea-horse"
My Last Duchess
97
"Flash'd all their sabres bare"
The Charge of the Light Brigade
98
"Exploding comfortably"
Storm on the Island
99
"drink and drugs won't flush him out -"
Remains
100
"Something is happening."
War Photographer
101
"decay/Of that colossal wreck"
Ozymandias
102
"blows full/Blast"
Storm on the Island
103
"raw-seamed hot khaki"
Bayonet Charge
104
"dug in behind enemy lines"
Remains
105
"it may be sick with tyrants"
The Emigree
106
"sneer of cold command"
Ozymandias
107
"towered up ...Strode after me"
Extract from, The Prelude
108
"too soon made glad/Too easily impressed"
My Last Duchess
109
"All that was left of them"
The Charge of the Light Brigade"
110
"her melancholy army/Attacks once more"
Exposure
