Cards (50)

  • ozymandias
    'lone and level sands stretch far away'
  • London
    'the marriage hearse'
  • London
    'in every cry of every man'
  • London
    'and mark in every face I meet'
  • extract from the prelude
    'with trembling oars I turned'
  • extract from the prelude
    'there hung a darkness'
  • my last duchess
    'if they durst'
  • my last duchess
    'she thanked men-good!'
  • my last duchess
    'of mine for dowry'
  • the charge of the light brigade
    'into the mouth of hell'
  • the charge of the light brigade
    'noble six hundred!'
  • exposure
    'our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us'
  • exposure
    'slowly our ghosts drag home'
  • storm on the island
    'spits like a tame cat turned savage'
  • storm on the island
    'wind dives and strafes invisibly'
  • bayonet charge
    'suddenly he awoke and was running raw'
  • bayonet charge
    'sweating like molten iron'
  • remains
    'his blood shadow stays on the street'
  • remains
    'the drugs won't flush him out'
  • poppies
    'all my words flattened, rolled, turned'
  • poppies
    'the world overflowing like a treasure chest'
  • poppies
    'sellotape bandaged around my hand'
  • war photographer
    'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows'
  • war photographer
    'a half-formed ghost'
  • tissue
    'the sun shines through their borderlines'
  • tissue
    'might fly our lives like paper kites'
  • tissue
    'turned into your skin'
  • the emigree
    'branded by an impression of sunlight'
  • the emigree
    'they accuse me of being dark'
  • checking out me history
    'bandage up me eye with me own history'
  • checking out me history
    'a healing star'
  • checking out me history
    'I carving out me identity'
  • kamikaze
    'strung out like bunting'
  • kamikaze
    'shore, salt-sodden'
  • kamikaze
    'he came back'
  • poppies
    'sellotape bandaged around my hand'
  • what is the context of tissue - dharker?
    her husband suffered cancer which shows her views on the fragility of human life
  • what is the structure of tissue?
    stanzas in lines of 4 - shows control and the the restriction of human power
    ends in one line ' turned into your skin'
  • what is the structure of poppies - weir?

    free verse
  • ozymandias
    'wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command'