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QUOTES FROM ALL POEMS Flashcards

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OZYMANDIAS

“I met a…”

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“I met a traveller from an antique land”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Two vast…”

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“Two vast and trunkless legs”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Frown and wrinkled…”

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“Frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Shatter’d…”

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“Shatter’d visage”

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OZYMANDIAS

“The hand that…”

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“The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Stamp’d on…”

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“Stamp’d on lifeless things”

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OZYMANDIAS

“My name is…”

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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Nothing beside…”

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“Nothing beside remains”

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OZYMANDIAS

“Boundless and…”

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“Boundless and bare”

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LONDON

“I wander through each…”

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“I wander through each chartered street, near where the charter’d Thames does flow”

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LONDON

“Marks of…”

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“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

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LONDON

“In every infants…”

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“In every infant’s cry of fear”

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LONDON

“The mind…”

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“The mind-forged manacles I hear”

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LONDON

“How the chimney…”

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“How the chimney sweepers cry every black’ning church appals”

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LONDON

“Runs in…”

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“Runs in blood down palace walls”

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MAIN THEMES IN OZYMANDIAS:

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  • Power is only temporary
  • You can’t beat time
  • The power of art
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MAIN THEMES IN LONDON:

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  • Anger
  • Hopelessness
  • Misuse of power
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THE PRELUDE

“One summer evening…”

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“One summer evening (led by her)”

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THE PRELUDE

“It was an act of…”

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“It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure”

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THE PRELUDE

“I fixed my view upon…”

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“I fixed my view upon the summit”

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THE PRELUDE

“Was nothing but the stars and…£

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“Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”

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THE PRELUDE

“A huge peak…”

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“A huge peak. Black and huge”

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THE PRELUDE

“I struck and…”

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“I struck and struck again, and growing still in stature”

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THE PRELUDE

“There hung a darkness…”

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“There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion”

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MAIN THEMES IN PRELUDE:

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  • Power of nature
  • Power of memory
  • Fear
  • Individual experience
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THE PRELUDE

“For many…”

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“For many days”

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THE PRELUDE

“No pleasant images…”

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“No pleasant images of trees, or sea or sky, no colours of green fields”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“That’s my…”

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“That’s my last duchess”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“Will’t please…”

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“Will’t please you sit and look at her”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“Twas not her husbands…”

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“Twas not her husband’s presence only called that spot of joy into the duchess’ cheek”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“Half-flush that…”

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“Half-flush that dies along her throat”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“Too soon made glad…”

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“Too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she liked whate’er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“She thanked men…”

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“She thanked men good! but thanked somehow I know not how”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“I gave commands…”

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“I gave commands, then all smiles stopped together”

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MY LAST DUCHESS

“At starting…”

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“At starting, is my object”

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MY LAST DUCHESS KEY THEMES:

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  • Gender
  • Power
  • Inequality
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REMAINS

“On another…”

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“On another occasion”

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REMAINS

“Probably armed…”

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“Probably armed, possibly not”

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REMAINS

“Well myself and…”

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“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else”

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REMAINS

“All three of us…”

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“All three of us open fire. Three of a kind letting fly”

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REMAINS

“Sort of…”

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“Sort of inside out”

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REMAINS

“Tosses his guts…”

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“Tosses his guts back into his body”

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REMAINS

“End of story…”

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“End of story, except not really”

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REMAINS

“But I blink and he….”

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“But I blink and he bursts through the doors of the bank”

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REMAINS

“The drink and drugs…”

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“The drink and drugs won’t flush him out”

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REMAINS

“He’s in my head when I…”

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“He’s in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”

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REMAINS

“His bloody life…”

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“His bloody life, in my bloody hands”

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MAIN THEMES REMAINS:

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  • Guilt
  • Memory
  • Individual experience
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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Theirs not to make reply…”

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“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Into the valley…”

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“Into the valley of death”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Cannon to the right of them….”

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“Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Stormed at with…”

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“Stormed at with shot and shell”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Into the jaws of death…”

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“Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell”

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‘CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Then they rode back…”

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“Then they rode back, but not the six hundred”

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE:

“Honour the charge…”

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“Honour the charge they made! Honour the light brigade”

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EXPOSURE:

“Our brains ache…”

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“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”

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EXPOSURE:

“But nothing…”

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“But nothing happens”

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EXPOSURE:

“Worried by silence…”

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“Worried by silence, sentries, whisper, curious, nervous”

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EXPOSURE:

“What are we…”

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“What are we doing here?”

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EXPOSURE:

“Ranks on shivering…”

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“Ranks on shivering, ranks of grey”

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EXPOSURE:

“Black with snow…”

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“Black with snow, with sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew”

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EXPOSURE:

“Is it that…”

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“Is it that we are dying”

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EXPOSURE:

“For love of God…”

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“For love of God seems dying”

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EXPOSURE:

“All their eyes…”

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“All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“In his darkroom…”

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“In his darkroom, he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“A priest preparing…”

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“A priest preparing to intone a mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“A half-formed ghost…”

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“A half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries of this man’s wife, how he sought approval”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“The reader’s eyeballs…”

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“The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers”

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

“From the aeroplane, he stares…”

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“From the aeroplane, he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND:

“Sink walls in rock…”

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“Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth never troubled us”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND:

“So that you…”

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“So that you listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND:

“You might think that the sea is….”

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“You might think that the sea is company, exploding comfortably down the cliffs”

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STORM ON THE ISLAND:

“Strange, it…”

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“Strange, it is a huge nothing we fear”

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POPPIES

“Spasms….”

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“Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer”

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POPPIES

“Blackthorns…”

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“Blackthorns of your hair”

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POPPIES

“All my words…”

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“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting”

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POPPIES

“Threw it open…”

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“Threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest”

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POPPIES

“After you’d gone I…”

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“After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a songbird from its cage”

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POPPIES

“The dove pulled…”

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“The dove pulled freely against the sky, an ornamental stitch, I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching the wind”

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KAMIKAZE

“A shaven head…”

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“A shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”

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KAMIKAZE

“The little fishing boats…”

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“The little fishing boats struck out like bunting on a green-blue transparent sea”

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KAMIKAZE

“The dark shoals of fishes…”

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“The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swiveled towards the sun”

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KAMIKAZE

“The dark prince…”

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“The dark prince, muscular, dangerous”

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KAMIKAZE

“My mother never…”

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“My mother never spoke again in his presence”

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KAMIKAZE

“They treated him as though…”

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“They treated him as though he no longer existed”

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KAMIKAZE

“He must have wondered…”

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

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Dem tell me wha…”

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“Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“Bandage up me…”

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“Bandage up me eye with me own history”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“No dem…”

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“No dem never tell me bout dat”

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY

“But now I checking…”

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“But now I checking out me history I carving out me identity”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Suddenly…”

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“Suddenly he awoke”

92
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BAYONET CHARGE

“Hot khaki…”

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“Hot khaki, his sweat heavy”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Bullets smacking…”

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“Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“His terror’s…”

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“His terror’s touchy dynamite”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Rolled like a flame and…”

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“Rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Toward the…”

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“Toward the green hedge”

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BAYONET CHARGE

“Patriotic…”

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“Patriotic tear” His patriotism has turned into fear and pain.

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TISSUE

“Paper that lets…”

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“Paper that lets the light shine through”

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TISSUE

“Paper thinned by…”

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“Paper thinned by age or touching”

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TISSUE

“If buildings were…”

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“If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift”

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TISSUE

“Might fly our…”

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“Might fly our lives like paper kites”

102
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TISSUE

“A structure…”

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“A structure never meant to last”

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THE EMIGREE

“There once…”

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“There once was a country”

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THE EMIGREE

“My memory of it is…”

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“My memory of it is sunlight-clear”

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THE EMIGREE

“It may be at war…”

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“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight”

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THE EMIGREE

“Branded by an…”

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“Branded by an impression of sunlight”

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THE EMIGREE

“Time rolls its…”

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“Time rolls its tanks”

108
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THE EMIGREE

“That child’s vocabulary…”

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“That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll”

109
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THE EMIGREE

“I can’t get it off…”

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“I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight”

110
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THE EMIGREE

“They acuse me…”

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“They acuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city”

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THE EMIGREE

“My shadow falls as…”

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“My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”

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