English Literature: Poetry antholgy main 7 quotes

Charge of the Light Brigade

**‘Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred’**

Charge of the Light Brigade

**‘Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die’**

Charge of the Light Brigade

**‘Storm’d at with shot and shell / While horse and hero fell’**

**Bayonet Charge**

**‘Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest’**

Bayonet Charge

**‘ Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’**

Bayonet Charge

**‘King, honour, human dignity etc dropped like luxuries’**

Exposure

**‘Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us’**

Exposure

**‘But nothing happens’**

Exposure

**‘We turn back to our dying’**

Kamikaze

**‘One-way journey into history’**

Kamikaze

**‘Till gradually we too learned to be silent’**

Kamikaze

**‘Wondered which had been the better way to die’**

War Photographer

**‘Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’**

War Photographer

**‘Fields which don’t explode beneath the feet / Of running children in nightmare heat’**

War Photographer

**‘The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears / Between the bath and pre-lunch beers’**

Storm on the Island

 **‘Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale’**

Storm on the Island

**‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’**

Storm on the Island

**‘Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear’**

Ozymandias

 **‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert… half-sunk a shattered visage lies’**

Ozymandias

**‘My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’**

Ozymandias

**‘Nothing beside remains’**