Key quotes

• Ozymandias

  “Shattered visage”
• Ozymandias

  “Sneer of cold command”
• Ozymandias

  “Boundless and bare”
• London

  “Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
• London

  “Mind-forged manacles”
• London

  “Runs in blood down palace walls”
• Extract from, The Prelude

  “(led by her)“
• Extract from, The Prelude

  “glittering idly“
• Extract from, The Prelude

  “Sparkling light“
• Extract from, The Prelude

  “A huge peak, black and huge”
• Extract from, The Prelude

  “Call it solitude or blank desertion”
• My Last Duchess

  “(Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I)”
• My Last Duchess

  “As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift”
• My Last Duchess

  “I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together”
• The charge of the light brigade

  “Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”
• The charge of the light brigade

  “Into the jaws of death / into the mouth of hell”
• The charge of the light brigade

  “When can their glory fade, honour the light brigade“
• Exposure

  “Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
• Exposure

  “Dawn missing in the east her melancholy army”
• Exposure

  “But nothing happens”
• Storm on the island

  “We are prepared: we build our houses squat“
• Storm on the island

  “Spits like a tame cat turned savage”
• Storm on the island

  “Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear“
• Bayonet charge

  “The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
• Bayonet charge

  “His terror’s touchy dynamite“
• Bayonet charge

  “King, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries”
• Remains

  “Probably armed, possibly not”
• Remains

  “End of story, except not really”
• Remains

  “His bloody life in my bloody hands”
• Poppies

  “Sellotape bandaged around my hand”
• Poppies

  “All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
• Poppies

  “The world overflowing like a treasure chest“
• War photographer

  “Spools of suffering / all flesh is grass“
• War photographer

  “A half-formed ghost”
• War photographer

  “How the blood stained into foreign dust”
• Tissue

  “Might fly our lives like paper kites”
• Tissue

  “Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths”
• Tissue

  “With living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last“
• Checking out me history 


  “Dem tell me”
• Checking out me history

  “Bandage up me eye with me own history / blind me to me own identity“