Power and conflict poetry

• Half caste quotes

  • " Explain yu self "
  • " Wha u mean"
  • " Half a eye "
  • Half a hand "
• No problem key quotes

  • " I am not de problem "
  • Problem , brunt , taunts, stunts " - ABCB rhyme
  • " These conditions may affect me "
  • " In a pigeon hole"
  • " Branded athletic"
• Belfast confetti key quotes

  • Side streets blocked with stops and colons
  • Fusillade of question marks
• What were they like

  • " Peaceful , paddies , water "
  • " When the bombs smashed those mirrors"
  • " Who can say ? It is silent now"
• Destruction of Sennacherib

  • " Hath melted like snow in the glance of God "
  • " Wide , pride , surf, turf, - AABB rhyme
  • " Unlifted, unblown trumpets"
  • " Blast , breath , but " - plosive sounds = power
  • " Like leaves of forest summer green "
  • " Like leaves of forest when autumn hath blown "
• Prelude

  • " Troubled pleasure "
  • " Huge peak , black and huge "
  • " Struck and struck again"
  • " Led by her "
  • " Small circles glittering idly.."
• Cousin Kate

  • " Glove , love, dove " - ABCB rhyme
  • " He changed me like a dove "
  • " My shame and pride "
  • " Cottage maiden hardened by the sun"
  • " Cast me aside ... Unclean thing "
• Class game

  • " Olly "
  • " Pee " " bum " - colloquial register
• Catrin

  • " I can remember you "
  • " You child.. "
  • " Fighting" " wild " " fierce confrontation "
  • " Red rope of love "
• Poppies

  • " Spasm of red " " blockage "
  • " All my words flattened turned rolled into felt "
  • " Black thorns"
  • " Without winter coat or reinforcements "
  • " Hoping to hear "
• A poison tree

  • " Night, bright, shine, mine " - AABB rhyme
  • " Till it bore an apple bright"
  • " Smiles" " soft deceitful wiles"
  • " Friend "
  • " Glad I see my foe outstretched beneath the tree"
• The man he killed

  • " Because, Foe, was , although " - ABAB rhyme
  • " Nnipperkin"
  • " Because - because he was my foe "
  • " Quaint and curious was is "
• Exposure

  • " Us" " crisp" " grasp" " ice" - ABBAC and ABBA rhyme
  • " Merciless ices east winds that knives us "
  • " All their eyes are ice "
  • " But nothing happens"
  • " What are we doing here"
• War photographer

  • " Even in hell human spirit triumphs over all "
  • " Pair of peach sun- gilded girls"
  • " Dropped her burden"
  • " Small girl staggered down a devastated street"
  • " Reassurance of the frame"
• Charge of the light brigade

  • " Half a league , Half a league , Half a league " - in media res
  • " Hundred , blundered, thundered" - dactylic diameter - galloping
  • " Honour the six hundred "
  • " Jaws of death"
  • " Mouth of hell"
  • " Cannon to right " - anaphora