English Lit

• Ozymandias: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• Ozymandias is a character in a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, known for the line "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• London is a poem by William Blake, known for the line "In every voice, in every ban, / The mind-forged manacles I hear"
• Extract from the Prelude is a poem by William Wordsworth, known for the line "Small circles glittering idly in the moon"
• My Last Duchess is a poem by Robert Browning, known for the line "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive."
• Charge of the Light Brigade is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, known for the line "Into the jaws of Death, / Into the mouth of Hell"
• Exposure is a poem by Robert Browning, known for the line "Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…"
• Storm on the Island is a poem by Robert Browning, known for the line "Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale"
• Bayonet Charge is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, known for the line "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air"
• Cold clockwork of the stars and the nations is a line from the poem "The Cold Within" by Robert Service.
• Then the shot-slashed furrows threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame is a line from the poem "The Bayonet Charge" by Rudyard Kipling.
• The person tosses his guts back into his body and the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out.
• The person is told about 1066 and all dat, about Dick Whittington and his cat.
• The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears when reading about the War Photographer.
• Tissue is described as the sun shining through their borderlines, the marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks, mountainfolds.
• The person carves out their own identity.
• King, honour, human dignity, etcetera are dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm.
• Poppies are described as being bravely walked to the front door, thrown open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest.
• The Emigree is described as a bright filled paperweight, possibly sick with tyrants, branded by an impression of sunlight.
• The person checks out their own history, bandaging up their eye with their own history, blinded to their own identity.
• The person is on the ground, sort of inside out.
• The remains of a person are probably armed, possibly not.
• Kamikaze is described as a shaven head full of powerful incantations, dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun.
• Kamikaze and his people learned to be silent.
• The Emigree’s city takes the person dancing through the city of walls.
• The person is not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land.
• The person is described as a healing star among the wounded, a yellow sunrise to the dying.