Quotes Flashcards
KAMIKAZE (3)
-a shaven head full of powerful incantations, and enough fuel for a one way journey into history
-the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun
-he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
REMAINS (3)
-I see every round as it rips through his life - I see broad daylight on the other side (contrasts with colloquial lang of first 2 stanzas)
-Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not. Dream, and he’s torn apart by a dozen rounds.
-his bloody life in my bloody hands.
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY (2)
-dem tell me, dem tell me
-bandage up me eye with me own history / Blind me to me own identity
OZYMANDIAS (2)
-a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
-round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
LONDON (3)
-I wander through each chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow
-in every infant’s cry of fear [..] mind-forged manacles I hear.
-blights with plagues the marriage hearse
THE PRELUDE (3)
-‘proud of his skill […] with an unswerving line’ compare to ‘with trembling oars I turned’
-‘she was an elfin pinnace’ + ‘like a swan’ compare to ‘the horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge […] upreared its head’
-a trouble to my dreams
MY LAST DUCHESS (3)
-that’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive
-none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I
-but who passed without much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.
EXPOSURE (3)
-our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…
-all their eyes are ice
-but nothing happens
STORM ON THE ISLAND (3)
-‘we are prepared: we build our houses squat […] goodslate.’ compare to last line ‘it is a huge nothing that we fear’
-spits like a tame cat turned savage
-exploding comfortably
BAYONET CHARGE (4)
-the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest
-he almost stopped - In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations
-his terror’s touchy dynamite
-a yellow hare that rolled like a flame And crawled in a threshing circle
POPPIES (3)
-spasms of paper red […] sellotape bandaged around my hand
-all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting. I was brave
-the world overflowing like a treasure chest
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER (4)
-spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
-a stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost.
-reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers
-he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care
TISSUE (3)
-paper that lets the light shine through
-Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines
-with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last, of paper smoothed and stroked (repetition of line 11)
THE EMIGRÉE (3)
-I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
-it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants
-they mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (4)
-Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell
-rode the six hundred (ends first three stanzas)
-all the world wonder’d (double meaning)
-Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! (last line)
