Power and Conflict Poetry Quotes
4 quotes per poem which I feel are the most effective. The same quotes dont work for different people but I hope they're of use!
- Created by: skent6
- Created on: 12-02-19 18:14
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- Power and Conflict Poetry
- Kamikaze
- a one way journey into histiory
- like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea
- they treated him as though he no longer existed
- gradually we too learned to be silent
- London
- every black'ning church appals
- marriage hearse
- mind forg'd manacles I hear
- the chartered Thames
- The Emigree
- my memory of it is sunlight-clear
- my city comes to me in its own white plane
- There was once a country
- that bright filled paperweight
- My Last Duchess
- that's my last Duchess
- my gift of a 900 years old name
- Notice Neptune... taming a sea-horse
- I gave commands; then all smiles stopped
- Ozymandias
- 'my name is Ozymandias king of kings'
- sneer of cold command
- round the decay of that colossal wreck
- lone and level sands stretch far away
- Bayonet Charge
- suddenly he awoke and was running - raw
- king, honour, human dignity dropped like luxuries
- threw up a yellow hare
- patriotic tear
- Storm On The Island
- We are prepared
- Exploding comfortably
- spits tame cat turned savage
- It is a huge nothing we fear
- Exposure
- But nothing happens
- merciless iced east winds that knive us
- black with snow
- slowly our ghosts drag home
- Poppies
- leaned against it like a wishbone
- spasms of paper red
- hoping to hear your playground voice
- walked with you to the front door, threw it open
- Checking Out Me History
- Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
- Dem never tell me bout nanny de maroon
- Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat
- I carving me own identity
- Remains
- probably armed, possibly not
- rips through his life
- his bloody life in my bloody hands
- his blood-shadow stays on the street
- The Prelude
- towered up between me and the stars
- a huge peak black and huge
- huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men
- my boat heaved through the water like a swan
- Charge Of The Light Brigade
- jaws of Death
- valley of Death
- someone had blundered
- while horse and hero fell
- Tissue
- in the back of the Koran... names and histories
- what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like kites
- who was born to whom... who died where and how
- with living tissue raise a structure never meant to last
- War Photographer
- All flesh is grass
- a hundred agonies in black-and-white
- spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
- his hands, which did not seem to tremble then though seem to now
- Kamikaze
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