2 Flashcards
Remains
and hes there on the ground, sort of inside out
and tosses his guts back into his body
his blood shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol
Bayonet Charge
Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
bullets smacking the belly out of the air
his terrors touchy dynamite
London
WILLIAM BLAKE
The mind forged manacles I hear
How the chimney sweapers cry
How the youthful harlots curse
blasts the new born infants tear
Exposure
WILFRED OWEN
like twitching agonies of men among its brambles
sudden successive bullets streak the silence
littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses
slowly out ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed
with crusted dark red jewels; crickets jingle there
Kamikaze
BEATRICE GARLAND
Her father embarked at sunrise
with a flask of water, a samurai sword
only we children still chattered and laughed
cloud-marked mackerel, / black crabs, / feathery prawns.
Emigre
CAROL RUMENS
The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes
glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks
like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar.
They accuse me of absence, they circle me.
Ozymandious
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
of the colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Storm on the island
But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits
“there are no stacks or stooks that can be lost.” Emphasises how barren and bare the island is. Enjambment to emphasise the sudden impact of the wind
leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale
