Poetry Flashcards

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name 4 quotes from ozymandias?

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  • ” two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
  • “half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
  • “i am ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair”
  • “boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away”
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name 4 quotes from london?

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  • “i wander through each chartered street”
  • “the mind forged manacles i hear”
  • “every black’ning church appalls”
  • “runs in blood down the palace walls”
  • “blasts the new-born infants tear, and blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
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name 4 quotes from the prelude?

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  • “the horizons bound, a huge peak, black and huge”
  • “one summer evening (led by her)”
  • there hung a darkness”
  • “upreared its head”
  • ” measured motion like a living thing”
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name 4 quotes from storm on the island?

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  • “pummels”, “exploding”, “spits”
  • “spits like a tamed cat turned savage”
  • “exploding comfortably”
  • “wind dives and strafes invisibly”
  • “we are bombarded by the empty air”
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name 5 quotes from remains?

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  • “legs it up thee road”
  • “tosses his guts back into his body”
  • “he’s here in my head when i close my eyes, dug in behind enemy limes
  • “his bloody life in my bloody hands”
  • “probably armed, possibly not”
  • “myself and somebody else and somebody else”
  • “I see every round as it rips through his life I see broad daylight on the other side”
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name 5 quotes from expo sure?

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  • “our brains ache”
  • “the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
  • “mad gusts tugging on the wire”
  • “but nothing happens”
  • “sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
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name 5 quotes from war photographer?

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  • “all flesh is grass”
  • “running children in a nightmare heat”
  • “blood stained into a foriegn dust”
  • “the readers eyes prick with tears inbetween he bath and pre-lunch beers”
  • “this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”
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name 4 quotes from charge of the light brigade?

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  • “into the valley of death”
  • “jaws of death” “mouth of hell”
  • “honour the light brigade/Noble six hundred”
  • “storm’d at with shot and shell”
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name 5 quotes from the emigree?

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  • “i am branded by an impression sunlight”
  • “i left it as a child
  • “i comb its hair and love its shining eyes
  • “sick with tyrants”
  • “as time rolls it tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”
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name 5 quotes from poppies?

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  • “i was brave, as i walked with yoju to the front door”
  • “all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt”
  • “blockade” “bandaged” “reinforcements”
  • “the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
  • “cat hairs” “playing at being eskimos” “bedroom”
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name 4 quotes from kamikazee?

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  • “dark shoals of flashing silver”
  • “they treated him as though he no longer existed”
  • “was no longer the father we loved”
  • “a shaven head full of powerful incantations”
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