AQA Poetry Power And Conflict

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"

"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies"

"sneer of cold command"

"king of kings"

"colossal wreck, boundless and bare"

"I wander through each chartered street"

"marks of weakness, marks of woe"

"The mind-forged manacles I hear"

"chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh"

"plagues the marriage hearse"

"One summer evening (led by her)"

"troubled pleasure"

"a huge peak, black and huge"

"lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake"

"there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion"

"my last Duchess"

"half-flush that dies along her throat"

"My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"

"I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together"

"Notice Neptune…/Taming a sea-horse"

"valley of death"

"theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die"

"jaws of Death/…mouth of Hell"

"someone had blunder’d"

"Noble six hundred"

"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…"

"But nothing happens"

"forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed"

"we turn back to our dying"

"sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"

"We are prepared"

"spits like a tame cat/ turned savage"

"exploding comfortably"

"But there are no trees, no natural shelter"

"We are bombarded by the empty air"

"bullets smacking the belly out of the air-"

"he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm"

"patriotic tear"

"a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle"

"king, honour, human dignity, etcetera"

"On another occasion"

"probably armed, possibly not"

"rips through his life"

"tosses his guts back into his body"

"his bloody life in my bloody hands"

"tucks, darts, pleats"

"the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest"

"released a song bird from its cage"

"leaned against it like a wishbone"

"hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind"