Poems key quotes

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Emily

Cards (15)

Ozymandias- Percy Shelley 
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
“sneer of cold command”
“king of kings”
“colossal wreck, boundless and bare”
London 
“I wander through each chartered street”
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh”
“plagues the marriage hearse”
Prelude- William Wordsworth 
“One summer evening (led by her)”
“troubled pleasure”
“a huge peak, black and huge”
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
“there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
My last duchess- Robert Browning 
“my last Duchess”
“half-flush that dies along her throat”
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”
“Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse
Charge of the light brigade- Alfred Tennyson
“valley of death”
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
“jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell”
“someone had blunder’d”
“Noble six hundred”
Exposure- Wilfred Owen 
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” “But nothing happens”
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
“we turn back to our dying”
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Storm on the Island- Seamus Heaney 
“We are prepared”
“spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
“exploding comfortably”
“But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
“We are bombarded by the empty air”
Bayonet charge- Ted Hughes 
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“
“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
“patriotic tear”
“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle”
“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
Remains- Simon Armitage 
“On another occasion”
“probably armed, possibly not”
“rips through his life”
“tosses his guts back into his body”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
Poppies- Jane Weir 
“tucks, darts, pleats”
“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”
“released a song bird from its cage”
“leaned against it like a wishbone”
“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
Kamikaze- Beatrice Garland 
"full of powerful incantations"
"at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting"
"they treated him as though he no longer existed"
"and sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die"
cloud-amrked mackerel, black crabs, feathery prawns, the loose silver whitebait"
Checking out me history - John Agard 
"dem tell me"
"bandage up me eye"
"blind me to me own identity"
"de cow who jump over de moon"
"dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon"
War photographer - Carol Ann Duffy 
"spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
"his hands which did not tremble then though seem to now"
"a strangers features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost"
"a hundred agonies in black and white"
"The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers"
Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker 
"paper that lets light shine through"
"the back of the koran"
"pages smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention"
"Maps too. The sun shines through their border lines"
"layer over layer, luminous script over numbers over line"
The Emigree - Carol Rumens 
"There once was a country"
"I never saw it in that november"
"I am branded by an impression of sunlight"
"the white streets of that city"
"that child's vocabulary i carried here like a hollow doll"
"my city comes to me on its own white plane"