Y10 Poetry Assessment Key Quotes

Exposure

“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”

“Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

“But nothing happens”

“For love of God seems dying”

"Pale Flakes with fingering stealth"

"Twitching agonies of men among its brambles."

War photographer

“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"

"All flesh is grass"

"Running children in nightmare heat"

"A half-formed ghost"

"A hundred agonies in black and white"

"They do not care"

Ozymandias

"Vast and trunkless legs of stone"

"Half sunk, a shattered visage lies"

"My name is Ozymadias, king of kings"

"Stamped on these lifeless things"

"Colossal, wreck, boundless and bare"

"Lone and level sands stretch far away"

Storm on the Island

"This wizened earth has never troubled us"

"When it blows full Blast"

"Tragic chorus in gale"

"Exploding comfortably"

"Spits like a tame cat Turned savage"

"it is a huge nothing that we fear"

The Prelude

"One summer evening (led by her)"

"An act of stealth and troubled pleasure"

"Through the water like a swan"

"A huge peak, black and huge"

"There hung a darkness"

"Huge and mighty forms that do not live"