P&C poetry

• Ozymandias: '"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings"'
• Ozymandias: '"Round the decay of that colossal wreck"'
• London: '"the mind forged manacles"'
• London: '"the chimney-sweeper's cry, every black'ning church appals"'
• Extract from The Prelude: '"my boat went heaving through the water like a swan"'
• Extract from The Prelude: '"A huge peak, black and huge [...] upreared its head"'
• My Last Duchess: '"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall"'
• My Last Duchess: '"I gave commands then all smiles stopped"'
• CotLB: '"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward"'
• CotLB: '"Into the valley of death rode the six hundred"'
• Exposure: '"Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"'
• Exposure: '"Dawn massing in the East her melancholy army"'
• Storm on The Island: 'The sea "spits like a tame cat turned savage"'
• Storm on The Island: '"wind dives and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo."'
• Bayonet Charge: '"suddenly he awoke and was running"'
• Bayonet Charge: '"in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?"'
• Remains: '"his blood shadow stays on the street"'
• Remains: '"he's here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines".'
• Poppies: '"released a songbird from its cage"'
• Poppies: '"hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind"'
• War Photographer: '"In his darkroom he is finally alone"'
• War Photographer: '"A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half formed ghost"'
• Tissue: '"Paper that lets the light shine through"'
• Tissue: '"Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines"'
• The Emigrée: '"my original view, the bright, filled paperweight"'
• The Emigrée: '"I am branded by an impression of sunlight"'
• Checking Out Me History: '"Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me"'
• Checking Out Me History: '"now I checking out me own history, I carving out me identity"'
• Kamikaze: '"her father embarked at sunrise"'
• Kamikaze: '"sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die"'
• Poems

  • Ozymandias - Shelley
  • London - Blake
  • Extract from The Prelude - Wordsworth
  • My Last Duchess - Browning
  • CotLB - Tennyson
  • Exposure - Owen
  • Storm on The Island - Heaney
  • Bayonet Charge - Hughes
  • Remains - Armitage
  • Poppies - Weir
  • War Photographer - Duffy
  • Tissue - Dharker
  • The Émigrée - Rumens
  • Checking Out Me History - Agard
  • Kamikaze - Garland
• Oxymoron 


  Two opposite words next to another
• Quatrain


  A stanza of four lines
• Refrain


  Repeated lines
• Sonnet


   14 lines. Usually takes a turn, called a "Volta" about 8 lines in, and then resolves the issue by the end. Shakespearean sonnet - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• Sestet


  A stanza of 8 lines
• Volta


  Turning point of a poem
• Ozymandias


  The broken statue of a once great pharoh acts as a symbol of man's power, compared to nature
• London


  A man wanders the streets of London , witnessing the suffering of working classes
• Extract from the Prelude

  A young man steals a boat, only to be humbled by nature's power as an unseen mountain towers over him