Poetry quotes Flashcards
(10 cards)
1
Q
Exposure
A
- The merciless iced winds that knive us
- worried by silence, sentries, whisper, curious, nervous
- for love of god seems dying
- this frost will fasten on this mud and us
2
Q
Storm on the island
A
- We are prepared, we build our houses squat
- spits like a tame cat turned savage
- strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
3
Q
london
A
- in every infants cry of fear
- every blackning church appalls
- marriage hearse
4
Q
the prelude
A
- (led by her)
- troubled pleasure
- upreared its head
- trouble to my dreams
- repetition of huge
5
Q
charge of the light brigade
A
- (there’s not) to make reply
- half a league
- into the valley of death
- noble six hundred
6
Q
the emigree
A
- there was once a country…
- the bright, filled paperweight
- I am branded by an impression of sunlight
- my city takes me dancing through the city of walls
7
Q
checking out me history
A
- bandage up me eye with me own history
- de cow who jump over de moon
- hopeful stream to freedom river
8
Q
kamikaze
A
- a shaven head full of powerful incantations
- figure of eight
- nor did she meet his eyes
- he must have wondered, which had been the better way to die
9
Q
poppies
A
- the world overflowing like a treasure chest
- all my words flattened, rolled and turned into felt
- released a song bird from its cage
10
Q
ozymandias
A
- lone level sands stretch far away
- sneer of cold command
- look on my works
- king of kings