Power & Conflict Poetry Key Quotes
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- Created on: 23-02-19 09:09
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- Poetry
- London
- charted street
- charted Thames
- the mind-forged manacles i hear
- in every cry of man
- in every infant's cry of fear
- black'ning church
- hapless soldiers cry runs in blood down palace walls
- cries of weakness
- cries of woe
- charted street
- The Prelude
- one summer evening (led by her)
- I unloosed her chain
- proud of his skill
- a huge peak, black and huge
- powerful
- there hung a darkness
- a trouble to dreams
- I struck and struck again
- sparkling light
- small circles glittering idly in the moon
- My Last Duchess
- that's my last duchess
- will't please you sit and look at her
- notice Neptune
- cast in bronze for me
- as if she ranked my gift
- of a nine-hundred-years-old-name with anybody's gift
- the curtain i have drawn for you
- I gave commands then all smiles stopped together
- Fra Pandolf
- is ample warrant
- that's my last duchess
- The Charge Of The Light Brigade
- honour the charge
- not the six hundred
- theirs no to make reply
- when can their glory fade?
- boldly
- into the jaws of death
- into the valley of death
- stormed
- cannon to the right of them
- Exposure
- but nothing happens
- our brains ache in the merciless iced east wind
- dawn...attacks once more in shivering ranks of grey
- less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow
- more damaging and deadly than bullets
- slowly our ghosts drag home
- all their eyes are ice
- Storm On The Island
- we are prepared
- it is a huge nothing we fear
- rock
- never troubled us
- rock
- you can listen to thing you fear
- we are bombared by the empty air
- space is a salvo
- wizened earth
- Bayonet Charge
- suddenly he was awake and running
- in what cold clockwork of the stars
- bullets smacking the belly out of the air
- he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
- sweating like molten iron
- patriotic tear
- king, honour, human dignity, etectera
- a yellow hare that rolled like a flame
- Remains
- probably armed, possibly not
- sort of inside out
- myself, and somebody else and somebody else
- and the drink and drugs won't flush him out
- torn apart by a dozen rounds
- tosses
- carted off
- this looter
- end of story expect not really
- blood shadow stays
- pain itself, the image of glory
- his bloody life in my bloody hands
- Poppies
- play at being Eskimos
- spasms of paper red
- run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair
- the world overflowing like a treasure chest
- released a song bird from it's cage
- the front door threw it open
- all my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt
- on reaching the top of the hill
- i listened hoping to hear your playground voice
- War Photographer
- rural england
- blood stained
- Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.
- finally alone
- blood stanied
- running children in nightmare heat
- cries of this man's wife
- all flesh is grass
- a hundred agonies in black and white
- spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
- the reader's eyeballs ***** with tears, between the bath and pre-luch beers
- his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday's supplement
- Tissue
- paper that lets light shine through
- daylight shines through capitals
- if buildings were paper
- maps too. The sun
- written in names and histories
- paper smoothed and stroked and thinned
- paper that is thinned by age or touching
- The Emigre
- my memory of its sunlight clear
- the white streets
- every coloured molecule of it
- i comb its hair and love its shinning eyes
- my country
- the worst new of it i receive of it cannot break my original view
- the bright filled paper weight
- it may be sick with tyrants
- i have no passport, there's no way back
- they
- Checking Out Me History
- but now i checking out me own history
- dem tell me dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
- carving out me own idenity
- bandage up me eye with me own history
- freedom river
- mountain dream
- a healing star
- beacon
- a healing star
- mountain dream
- de cow who jump over de moon
- Kamikaze
- he and his brothers waiting on the shore
- strung out like bunting
- yes grandfather's boat
- and he remembered how he and his brothers
- green blue translucent sea
- a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
- one way journey into history
- a samurai sword
- her father embarked at sunrise
- which had been the better way to die
- Ozymandias
- vast and trunkless legs of stone
- half sunk
- shattered visage
- nothing beside remains
- colossal wreck
- king of kings
- sneer of cold command
- boundless and bare
- London
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