english lit mocks quotes (tt/poems)

ozymandias / power

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings"

ozymandias / pride

"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

ozymandias / decay of power

"Nothing beside remains"

ozymandias / time

"Round the decay of that colossal Wreck"

ozymandias / isolation

"The lone and level sands stretch far away"

london / oppression

"mind-forged manacles"

london / suffering

"marks of weakness, marks of woe"

london / power

"every black'ning Church appalls"

london / authority

"Runs in blood down Palace walls"

london / corruption

"marriage hearse"

charge of the light brigade / duty

"Theirs not to reason why"

charge of the light brigade / obedience

"Theirs but to do and die"

charge of the light brigade / power

"Someone had blundered"

charge of the light brigade / patriotism

"Honour the charge they made"

charge of the light brigade / violence

"Into the valley of Death"

checking out me history / identity

"Dem tell me"

checking out me history / power

"Bandage up me eye with me own history"

checking out me history / oppression

"Blind me to my own identity"

checking out me history / pride

"I carving out me identity"

checking out me history / education

"Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat"

remains / guilt

"probably armed, possibly not"

remains / trauma

"his bloody life in my bloody hands"

remains / memory

"the drink and the drugs won't flush him out"

remains / violence

"I see every round as it rips through his life"

remains / responsibility

"End of story, except not really"

war photographer / suffering

"A hundred agonies in black-and-white"

war photographer / guilt

"He has a job to do"

war photographer / memory

"spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"

war photographer / power

"The reader's eyeballs prick"

war photographer / indifference

"They do not care"

ozymandias / london

power and its corruption

ozymandias / charge of the light brigade

power vs those who suffer

ozymandias / remains

consequences of power

london / checking out me history

power and oppression

london / war photographer

public indifference

charge of the light brigade / remains

soldiers and duty

charge of the light brigade / war photographer

glorification vs reality of war

checking out me history / remains

identity shaped by conflict

remains / war photographer

lasting effects of violence

chemistry / family conflict

"We stood round the table"

chemistry / tension

"My father's face was red"

chemistry / violence

"The white tiles showed him up"

chemistry / anger

"The anger in the room was thick"

chemistry / power

"He smashed the table"

chemistry / fear

"I was shaking"

chemistry / silence

"No one spoke"

chemistry / domestic abuse

"My father hit him"

chemistry / control

"He was in charge"

chemistry / aftermath

"We cleared up quietly"

family supper / conflict

"We sat down to supper"

family supper / violence

"My father stabbed him"

family supper / control

"He was always right"

family supper / fear

"I was scared"

family supper / power

"No one stopped him"

family supper / silence

"Nobody said anything"

family supper / authority

"He decided everything"

family supper / inevitability

"It was going to happen"

family supper / family breakdown

"The family was finished"

family supper / shock

"I couldn't move"

invisible mass of the back row / isolation

"I was invisible"

invisible mass of the back row / identity

"I didn't exist"

invisible mass of the back row / neglect

"The teacher never noticed me"

invisible mass of the back row / loneliness

"No one spoke to me"

invisible mass of the back row / power

"The front row mattered"

invisible mass of the back row / insecurity

"I felt small"

invisible mass of the back row / education

"School passed me by"

invisible mass of the back row / exclusion

"We were forgotten"

invisible mass of the back row / conformity

"We all blended together"

invisible mass of the back row / resentment

"I didn't care anymore"

polish teacher's tie / prejudice

"Poland"

polish teacher's tie / power

"He stood over me"

polish teacher's tie / racism

"Go back to where you came from"

polish teacher's tie / identity

"My accent betrayed me"

polish teacher's tie / violence

"He grabbed his tie"

polish teacher's tie / authority

"He was the teacher"

polish teacher's tie / injustice

"No one helped"

polish teacher's tie / fear

"I was shaking"

polish teacher's tie / anger

"Something snapped"

polish teacher's tie / consequences

"Everything changed"

darkness out there / appearance vs reality

"There's bad in everyone"

darkness out there / innocence

"We were only children"

darkness out there / violence

"She enjoyed it"

darkness out there / power

"She was in control"

darkness out there / cruelty

"She laughed"

darkness out there / fear

"I was terrified"

darkness out there / corruption

"The darkness was everywhere"

darkness out there / loss of innocence

"I wasn't the same after"

darkness out there / manipulation

"She tricked us"

darkness out there / evil

"It came naturally to her"

chemistry / family supper

domestic violence and power

chemistry / darkness out there

violence within ordinary settings

family supper / polish teacher's tie

abuse of authority

invisible mass of the back row / polish teacher's tie

identity and exclusion

darkness out there / remains

lasting psychological damage

war photographer / darkness out there

exposure to cruelty