Power and Conflict

• Ozymandias: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• The Prelude: "Small circles glittering idly in the moon / A huge peak, black and huge, / as if with voluntary power instinct, / upreared its head.
• My Last Duchess: "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive."
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: "Into the jaws of Death, / Into the mouth of Hell."
• Exposure: "Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…"
• Storm on the Island: "Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale."
• Bayonet Charge: "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air."
• Poppies: "I was brave, as I walked / with you, to the front door, threw/ it open, the world overflowing / like a treasure chest."
• War Photographer: "The only light is red and softly glows, / as though this were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass."
• Tissue: "The sun shines through / their borderlines, the marks / that rivers make, roads, / railtracks, mountainfolds.
• The Emigree: "Bright filled paperweight.
• Kamikaze: "A shaven head / full of powerful incantations.
• Ozymandias: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• London: "In every voice, in every ban, / The mind-forged manacles I hear."
• The Prelude: "Small circles glittering idly in the moon / A huge peak, black and huge, / as if with voluntary power instinct, / upreared its head.
• My Last Duchess: "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive."
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: "Into the jaws of Death, / Into the mouth of Hell."
• Storm on the Island: "Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale."
• Bayonet Charge: "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air."
• Poppies: "I was brave, as I walked / with you, to the front door, threw/ it open, the world overflowing / like a treasure chest."
• Tissue: "The sun shines through / their borderlines, the marks / that rivers make, roads, / railtracks, mountainfolds.
• The Emigree: "Bright filled paperweight.
• Kamikaze: "A shaven head / full of powerful incantations.
• Ozymandias: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
• London: "In every voice, in every ban, / The mind-forged manacles I hear."
• The Prelude: "Small circles glittering idly in the moon / A huge peak, black and huge, / as if with voluntary power instinct, / upreared its head.
• My Last Duchess: "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive."
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: "Into the jaws of Death, / Into the mouth of Hell."
• Exposure: "Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…"
• Storm on the Island: "Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale."
• The Bayonet Charge: "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air."
• Poppies: "I was brave, as I walked / with you, to the front door, threw/ it open, the world overflowing / like a treasure chest."
• The War Photographer: "The only light is red and softly glows, / as though this were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass."
• Tissue: "The sun shines through / their borderlines, the marks / that rivers make, roads, / railtracks, mountainfolds.
• The Emigree: "Bright filled paperweight.
• Kamikaze: "A shaven head / full of powerful incantations.
• We too learned to be silent.