Power and Conflict

• Ozymandias

  • "half sunk, shattered visage"
  • "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings"
  • "lone and level sands stretch"
• London

  • "in every infant's cry"
  • "mind-forged manacles"
  • "hapless soldier's sigh runs in blood down palace walls"
  • "marriage hearse"
• Extract from, The Prelude

  • "an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
  • "horizon's utmost boundary"
  • "no familiar shapes remained"
• 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"
• The Charge of the Light Brigade

  • "half a league"
  • "rode the six hundred"
  • "someone had blunder'd"
• Exposure

  • "merciless iced east winds that knive us"
  • "but nothing happens"
  • "rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy"
• Storm on the Island

  • "exploding comfortably"
  • "spits like a tamed cat turned savage"
  • "strafes... bombards"
• Bayonet Charge

  • "suddenly he awoke and was running"
  • "sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"
  • "king, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
  • "dropping like luxuries"
• Remains

  • "tosses his guts"
  • "probably armed, possibly not"
  • "drink and the drugs won't flush him out"
  • "his bloody life in my bloody hands"
• Poppies

  • "gelled blackthorns of your hair"
  • "released a song bird from its cage"
  • "my stomach busy making tucks, darts, pleats"
• War Photographer

  • "spools of suffering"
  • "a half-formed ghost"
  • "a hundred agonies"
  • "from the aeroplane he stares impassively"
• Tissue

  • "turned transparent with attention"
  • ""fine slips from grocery shops"
  • "fly our lives like paper kites"
• The Emigree

  • "There once was a country..."
  • "branded by an impression of sunlight"
  • "they accuse me of being dark in their free city."
• Checking Out Me History

  • "blind me to me own identity"
  • "dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon"
  • "a healing star among the wounded"
• Kamikaze

  • ""a shaven head full of powerful incantations"
  • "a tuna, the dark prince, muscular and dangerous"
  • "nor did she meet his eyes"