Key Quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias
"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone" "Half sunk, a shattered visage lies" "Sneer of cold command" "Colossal wreck, boundless and bare" "King of kings"
London
“I wander through each chartered street”
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“The mind-forged manacles I hear”
“plagues the marriage hearse”
The Prelude
“One summer evening (led by her)”
“troubled pleasure”
“a huge peak, black and huge”
“lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake”
“there hungry a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion”
My Last Duchess
“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 altogether”
“Notice Neptune / Taming a seahorse”
Charge of the Light Brigade
"Valley of death" "theirs not to make reply / theirs not to reason why / theirs not to do or die" "jaws of death / mouth of hell" "someone had blundered" "Noble six hundred!"
Exposure
“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
"We are prepared" "spit 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
“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 threshing circle”
“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”
Remains
"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
“tucks, darts, pleats”
“the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
“released a song bird from its cage”
“hoping to hear / Your playground voice catching on the wind.”a
