quotes Flashcards
london
-“ mined-forged, manacles”
-“I wandered through each charted Street“
-“ marks of weakness, marks of woe,”
-“In every cry ../In every infants cry ../In every voice…”
Kamikaze
-“ shoals of fish flashing silver”
-“ one-way journey into history/but halfway there..”
-“ her father embarked at sunrise”
-“ recounting to her children”
-“he must have looked far down”
storm in the island
- “ exploding” “ bombarded” “ blast”
- “ exploding comfortably”
- “ leaves and branches//can raise a tragic chorus…”
- “ we build our houses squat// sing wheels in rock and roof them with good slate”
exposure
- “ our brains, ache in the merciless iced east winds that neither us”
– “confused” “nervous” - “ but nothing happens”
war photographer 4
-running children in a nightmare heat
-He stares, impassively at where he enters living, and they do not care
-Do what someone must
-As though this were a church, and he a priest
remains 6
-myself and somebody else and somebody else
-His bloody life in my bloody hands
-Three of a Kind are letting fly, and I swear//I see every round as it rips through his life
-“ then I’m home and leave.”
- he’s on the ground sort of inside out
-Probably armed, possibly not
Checking out me history
“dem tell me//dem tell me//what dem want to tell me”
“ bandaged up me eye with me own history, blinded me to me own identity”
“ dem tell me about 1066 and all dat”
“ see-far woman// of mountain dream//fire-woman struggle//hopeful stream”
“ but now…. I carving out me identity”
Bayonet charge
-suddenly he awoke and was running
-The the shots-slashed furrows/threw up a yellow hair
-was he the hand pointing that second?
- Running raw/in raw seemed hot khaki
-Sweating like molten iron
-His terror, touchy dynamite
Charge of the light brigade
-forward, the/light brigade/was there a/man, dismayed?
-Someone had/blundered
- Into the valley of death
-Cannons to the right of them/Canon to the left of them/cannons behind them
The emigre
-I left it as a child/but my memory of it is sunlight clear
-There once was a country.. I left it as a child
-I am branded by an impression of sunlight
-my city hides behind me
-My city, take me dancing
Ozymandias
-King of Kings
-Cold command
poppies
-slowly melting. I was brave.
-Oh, my words/flattened Road turned into melt//slowly, melting
-Set a take the bandage around my hand
My last duchess
-That’s my Duchess painted on the wall.. if she were alive, I call
-The curtain I have drawn for you
-will’t please you rise?
-notice Neptune,though,taming a seahorse
Extract from the prelude
it was an act of stealth
-Small circles glittering ideally in the Moonlight
-Elfin pinnace
-Little boat
-A huge peak, black and huge
-No Familia shapes… no pleasant images… no colour
