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Kamikaze publication date

Answer 1

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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast andn trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away

Answer 2

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I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every black’ning church appalls,
And the hapless soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down palace walls.

But most through mindnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot’s curse
Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

Answer 3

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Half a league (Sounds like hoofbeats when read aloud)
The Valley of Death
He (a vehicle for blame)
Theirs not to reason why
Cannon … Cannon … Cannon
Storm’d at with shot and shell
Boldly they rode and well
Charging an army
Horse and hero fell
When can their glory fade?
All the world wonder’d
Honor the Charge they made!

Answer 4

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Merciless iced east winds that knive us
Worried by silence
Twitching agonies of men
Mad gusts
What are we doing here?
A dull rumour of some other war
But nothing happens
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence, less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow
Feeling for our faces
Snow-dazed […] sun-dozed
Is it that we are dying?
We turn back to our dying
For love of God seems dying
Tonight this frost will fasten on this mud and us
All their eyes are ice

Answer 5

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(led by her)
Troubled pleasure
They melted all into one track of sparkling light
The horizon’s utmost boundary
Lustily
Swan
From the horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge […] upreared its head. I struck and struck again
Towered up between me and the stars
Measured motion like a living thing
My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense
No familiar shapes remained
Huge and mighty forms

Answer 6

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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall
Never read strangers like you that pictured countenance
None puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I
If they durst
‘Twas all one! My favour at her breast
As if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody’s gift
Even if you had skill in speech - (which I have not)
I choose never to stoop
I gave commands then all smiles stopped together
Will’t please you rise?
His fair daughter’s self […] is my object
Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse
Cast in bronze for me

Answer 7

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There once was a country… i left it as a child
Sunlight
White streets of that city
Time rolls its tanks and frontiers rise between us
Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it
I have no passport
My city comes to me in its own white plane
Docile as paper
They accuse me of absence […] They accuse me of being dark in their free city
They mutter death
My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

Answer 8

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Suddenly he awoke and was running
Dazzled with rifle fire
Hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air
Patriotic tear […] sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest
He almost stopped -
Cold clockwork
Listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running
Threw up a yellow hare
Its mouth wide open
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera, dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
Terror’s touchy dynamite

Answer 9

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We get sent out
Probably armed, possibly not
I see every round as it rips through his life
Pain itself, the image of agony
Tosses his guts back into his body
End of the story, except not really
Blood-shadow
I blink and he bursts in again
The drink and the drugs won’t flush him out
Dug in behind enemy lines
His bloody life in my bloody hands

Answer 10

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Crimped petals, spasms of red paper
Sellotape bandaged around my hand
Steeling the softening of my face
Gelled blackthorns of your hair
The world overflowing like a treasure chest
You were away, intoxicated
A single dove flew from the pear tree
Without […] reinforcement
The hill
An ornamental stitch
Your playground

Answer 11

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Spools of suffering
As though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass
All flesh is grass
He has a job to do
Nightmare heat
A stranger’s features faintly start to twist
A half-formed ghost
To do what someone must
A hundred agonies in black and white
Supplement
The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
He stares impassively
They do not car

Answer 12

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A samuri sword
A shaven head full of powerful incantations
A one-way journey into history
Strung out like bunting
My mother never spoke again in his presence
They treated him as though he no longer existed
Gradually we too learned to be silent
This was no longer the father we loved
He must have wondered which had been the better way to die

Answer 13

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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William Blake

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Wilfred Owen

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William Wordsworth

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Robert Browning

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Carol Rumens

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Ted Hughes

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Simon Armitage

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Jane Weir

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Beatrice Garland

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