Poetry - power and conflict quotations

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Exposure by wilfred owen

"Our brain aches in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"

"Sudden succesive flights of bullets streak the silence"

"For love of god seems dying"

"All theur eyes are ice"

"Black with snow"

"Mad gusts tugging on the wire like twitching agonies of men"

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My last duchess by robert browning

" the curtain i have drawn for you"

"She thanked men -good!"

"My gift of a nine hundred year old name"

"I gave commands then all smiles stopped together"

"We'll go together down , sir"

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War photographer by carol ann duffy

"Light is red and softly glows"

"He is finally alone"

"he has a job to do"

"Ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel"

"Half-formed ghost"

"Readers eyeballs *****"

"He remembers"

" a hundred agonies"

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Charge of the light brigade by alfred lord tennyso

" into the valley of death"

"Rode the six hundred"

"Charge for the guns!"

"Cannon to the right of them"

"Theirs not to reason why"

"Into the mouth of hell"

"Into the jaws of death"

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The emigree by carol rumens

" my memory of it is sunlight clear"

"I am branded by an impression of sunlight"

"The worst news cannot break my original view"

"It lies down in front of me , docile as paper. I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"

"My city takes me dancing through the city of walls"

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Ozymandias by percy bysshe shelley

" an antique land"

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert"

"Ye mighty and despair"

"Nothing beside remains"

"Round the decay of that colassal wreck"

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Extract from the prelude by william wordsworth

" small circles glittering idly in the moon"

" a huge peak , black and huge"

"With trembling oars i turned"

" no familiar shapes remianed no pleasant images of trees"

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Storm onthe island by seamus heaney

"Forgetting that it pummels your house too"

"We sit tight while the wind dives and strafes invisibly"

"Strange, its a huge nothing that we fear"

"Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"

"The wizened earth has never troubled us"

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Remains by simon armitage

"Myself and somebody else and somebody else"

"All 3 of us open fire"

"His bloody life on my bloody hands"

"Probably armed possibly not"

"Tosses his guts back into his body"

"Dug in behind enemy lines"

"Then im home on leave"

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Tissue by imtiaz dharker

"Transparent with attention"

"Paper thinned by age or touching"

"Might fly our libes like paper kites"

"Never wish to build again with brick or block"

"Layer over layer luminous script over number over line"

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London by william blake

"Marks of weakness , marks of woe"

"In every cry of infant every man"

"Runs in blood down palace walls"

"How the youthful harlots curse blasts the new born infants tear"

"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"

"The hapless soldiers sigh"

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Bayonet charge by ted hughes

"King , honour, human dignity, etcetra"

"Patriotic tear that brimmed his eyes sweating like molten iron"

"Cold clockwork of stars and nations"

"His foot hung like statuary in midstride"

"In raw seamed hot khaki his sweat heavy"

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Poppies by jane weir

"Poppies had already been placed"

"I pinned one onto your lapel"

"I went into your bedroom release a songbird from its cage"

"On reaching the top of the hill i traced"

"Ornamental stitch.i listened hoping to hear"

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Checking out me history by john agard

" bandage up me eye wih me own history"

"But now i checking out me own history i carving out me identity"

" a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise to the dying"

"Dem tell me , what dem want to tell me"

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