quote poetry Flashcards
(12 cards)
Ozymandias-SHELLY
“half sunk a shattered visage lies”
“whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings
Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!
Nothing beside remains”
“Boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away”
London-Blake
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow”
“And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“In every voice; in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
“How the Chimney Sweeper’s cry
Every blackning Church appalls”
“And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls”
Checking Out Me History, John Agard
“Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me”
“Bandage up me eye with me own history
Blind me to me own identity”
“Toussaint de beacon of the Haitian revolution”
Mary Seacole – “a healing star” and a “yellow sunrise”
“But now I checking out me own history
I carving out me identity”
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred”
“Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die”
“Canon to right of them
Canon to left of them
Canon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered
Stormed at with shot and shell”
“Into the mouth of Death
Into the jaws of hell”
“Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!”
Exposure, Wilfred Owen
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey”
“Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed”
“But nothing happens”
War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy
“In his dark room he is finally alone
With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
“his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now”
“A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes
A half-formed ghost”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
“A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick five or six for Sunday’s supplement
Exposure, Wilfred Owen
denounce jingoistic glorification of war + expose the truth about the stasis and exclusion caused by war + the omnipotence of nature
War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy
denounce civilians’ trivialisation of war + expose the permanent psychological trauma caused by war
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred Lord Tennyson
promote jingoism, patriotism + reverence for the “six hundred”
Ozymandias, Percy Shelley
denounce humans’ hubris + promote nature’s omnipotence
London, William Blake
denounce oppressive, tyrannical institutions + promote individual freedom of humans and nature
Checking Out Me History, John Agard
denounce Eurocentric, monolithic institutions + promote marginalised black historical and political figures
