gcse aqa power and conflict poetry key quotes

exposure

‘the merciless iced east winds that knive us’

‘for the love of god seems dying’

‘but nothing happens’

remains

his bloody life on my bloody hands

the drinks and drugs couldn’t flush him out

end of story, except not really

kamikaze

gradually we learned to be silent

the little fishing boats strung out like bunting

my mother never spoke again

bayonet charge

‘suddenly, he awoke and was running’

‘the patriotic tear that brimmed in his eye sweating like molten’

‘bullets smacking the belly out of air’

ozymandias

‘nothing besides remains’

‘look on me works ye old mighty and despair!’

‘boundless and bare…stretch far away’

charge of the light brigade

‘ half a league, half a league onwards’

‘rode the six hundred’

‘theirs not to make reply, theirs not to ask why, theirs but to do and die’

checking out me history

‘dem tell me what dem want to tell me’

‘now i checking out me own history, i carving out me identity’

‘bandage me history’ ‘blind me identity’

storm on the island

tissue

my last duchess

‘she had a heart

‘her looks went everywhere’

‘looking as if she were alive’

poppies

‘released a songbird from its cage’

‘all my words flattened, rolled, turned’

‘a split second you were away, intoxicated’

war photographer

london

‘and mark in every face i meet, marks of weakness and woe’

‘in every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear’

‘every black’ning church appalls’

the emigree

‘they accuse me of being dark in their free city’

‘soon i should have every coloured molecule of it’

‘my memory of it is sun-light clear’

the prelude

‘a little boat tied to a willow tree’

‘huge peak, black and huge’

there hung a darkness’