Storm on the island - "it is a huge nothing that we fear."
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Card 18
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Storm on the island: context - The first of eight letters of the poem's title spell 'Stormont'. 'Stormont' is the name given to Northern Ireland's parliament buildings. This hints that the 'storm' could be about some of the violent political
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Bayonet charge - "raw"
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Bayonet charge - "His terrors touchy dynamite"
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Remains - "bloody hands."
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Remains - "his bloody life"
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Poppies - "I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial, leaned against it like a wishbone."
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Poppies - "After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage"
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War photographer - "spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"
