Quotations for POETRY (P2) Flashcards
(18 cards)
LONDON - I wander through each chartered street
Near where the chartered thames does flow (Power of Humans)
LONDON - Marks of weakness,
marks of woe (Power of Humans)
LONDON - And in the hopeless soldiers sigh,
Runs in blood down palace walls (Power of Humans)
LONDON - The marriage
hearse (Power of Humans)
EXPOSURE - Our brains ache in the merciless
iced east winds that knive us (POWER OF NATURE)
EXPOSURE - mad
gusts (POWER OF HUMANS)
EXPOSURE - Down massing in the east
her melancholy army (POWER OF HUMANS)
EXPOSURE - Repetition of
“but nothing happens” puts them constantly on edge building tension
REMAINS - Probably armed
possibly not (WAR) - Guilt - Cyclical structure
REMAINS - Drink and drugs
wont flush him out (WAR) - Memories are a sickness
REMAINS - I see every round as
it rips through his life (WAR) - soldier is a broken man
REMAINS - His bloody life
in my bloody hands (WAR) - Links blame back to himself
POPPIES - All my worlds felt flattened, rolled
turned into felt// slowly melting (MEMORY)
POPPIES - Sellotape bandaged
around my hand (MEMORY) - Suffering
POPPIES - I wanted to graze my nose
across the tip of your nose (MEMORY)
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - I carving out
me identity (IDENTITY)
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - Dem never tell me bout nanny
de maroon (IDENTITY) - Significance of important figure
Bandage up me eye
With me own history - Checking out me history