Power and Conflict Quotes Flashcards
(15 cards)
3 quotes for Ozymandias
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“The lone and level sands stretch far away”
3 quotes for London
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Mind-forged manacles”
“The youthful Harlot’s curse”
3 quotes for extract from the prelude
“A huge peak, black and huge”
“Troubled pleasure”
“No familiar shapes remained”
3 quotes for my last duchess
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.”
“That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands”
“Too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed”
3 quotes for charge of the light brigade
“Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred”
“Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die”
“When can their glory fade?”
3 quotes for exposure
“But nothing happens”
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
3 quotes for storm on the island
“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 quotes for bayonet charge
“Suddenly he awoke and was running”
“The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
“His terror’s touchy dynamite”
3 quotes for remains
“His blood-shadow stays on the street”
“Probably armed, possibly not”
“End of story, except not really”
3 quotes for poppies
“I pinned one onto your lapel”
“The world overflowing like a treasure chest” “I was brave, as I walked / with you”
3 quotes for war photographer
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”
“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“The reader’s eyeballs prick / with tears”
3 quotes for tissue
“Paper that lets the light / shine through”
“The sun shines through / their borderlines”
“Let the daylight break / through capitals and monolith”
3 quotes for the emigree
“There once was a country…”
“My city hides behind me”
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants”
3 quotes for kamikaze
“Her father embarked at sunrise”
“A tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.”
“He must have wondered / which had been the better way to die”
3 quotes for checking out me history
“Dem tell me / What dem want to tell me”
“I carving out me identity”
“But now I checking out me own history”
