OCR English Literature Poetry Quotes (L5)

Flag 1

Flag 1

What's that fluttering in a breeze?

Flag 2

It's just a piece of cloth

Flag 3

that brings a nation to its knees

Flag 4

that dares the coward to relent

Flag 5

What's that flying across a field

Flag 6

How can I possess such a cloth?

Flag 7

Just ask for a flag, my friend

Flag 8

Then blind your conscience to the end

Vergissmeinnicht 1

returning over the nightmare ground

Vergissmeinnicht 2

the soldier sprawling in the sun

Vergissmeinnicht 3

The frowning barrel of his gun

Vergissmeinnicht 4

Look. Here in the gunpit spoil

Vergissmeinnicht 5

Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht

Vergissmeinnicht 6

mocked at by his own equipment

Vergissmeinnicht 7

how on his skin the swart flies move

Vergissmeinnicht 8

the burst stomach like a cave

Vergissmeinnicht 9

death who had the soldier singled

Envy 1

This rose-tree is not made to bear

Envy 2

Nor the sweet mignionet:

Envy 3

It all in vain would fret.

Envy 4

And should it fret, you would suppose

Envy 5

Or it could ne'er be discontent

Envy 6

With its own pretty flower

Envy 7

Like such a blind and senseless tree

Envy 8

With care and culture all may find

Envy 9

Some pretty flower in their own mind,/Some talent that is rare

There's a certain slant of light 1

There's a certain slant of light

There's a certain slant of light 2

That oppresses, like the Heft/Of Cathedral Tunes

There's a certain slant of light 3

Heavenly Hurt

There's a certain slant of light 4

But internal difference

There's a certain slant of light 5

None may teach it -Any

There's a certain slant of light 6

An imperial affliction

There's a certain slant of light 7

When it comes, the Landscape listens -

There's a certain slant of light 8

Shadows - hold their breath -

There's a certain slant of light 9

On the look of Death -

Colonisation in Reverse 1

What a joyful news, Miss Mattie;

Colonisation in Reverse 2

By de hundred, by de tousan

Colonisation in Reverse 3

What a islan! What a people!

Colonisation in Reverse 4

Jussa pack dem bag an baggage

Colonisation in Reverse 5

shippin off/Dem countryman like fire

Colonisation in Reverse 6

Jamaica live fi box bread

Colonisation in Reverse 7

For when dem catch a Englan

Colonisation in Reverse 8

But ah wonderin how dem gwine stan Colonizin in reverse

Thirteen 1

You will be four minutes from home

Thirteen 2

when you are cornered by an officer

Thirteen 3

-You'll laugh

Thirteen 4

Thriteen, you'll tell him: you're thirteen.

Thirteen 5

by another fed

Thirteen 6

being little stars.

Thirteen 7

You will show the warmth of your teeth

Thirteen 8

he will see you powerless - plump.

Thirteen 9

Don't you remember me?

Thirteen 10

While fear condenses on your lips

Honour Killing 1

At last I'm taking off this coat,

Honour Killing 2

that I wore more out of habit/than design.

Honour Killing 3

I'm taking off this veil

Honour Killing 4

that made me faithless/to myself.

Honour Killing 5

rattling in a tin cup of needs

Honour Killing 6

I'm taking off this skin

Honour Killing 7

Let's see/what I am in here

Honour Killing 8

making, crafting, plotting

Partition 1

she could hear the cries of the people

Partition 2

She felt it was endless - their noise -

Partition 3

stranded in the Ahmedabad railway station.

Partition 4

But she felt afraid,

Partition 5

I still feel/guilty about that.

Partition 6

And each day she wished

Partition 7

Even the birds sounded different -

Partition 8

the shadows cast by the neem trees/brought no consolation

Partition 9

So she stood in the garden/listening