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AQAPower and Conflict poetry
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Ozymandias
• “antique”
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“vast and trunkless legs of stone”
“desert”
“sand”
“half sunk, a shattered visage lies, who’s frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command”

• “which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things”
• “mocked”
• “heart that fed”
• “King of Kings”
• “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair”
• “Nothing beside remains”
• “Round the decay of that colossal wreck”
• “boundless and bare”
• “The lone and level sands stretch far away”

London
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“Wander”
“Chartered”
“and mark in every face I meet, marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“In every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of ear, in every voice, in every ban”
“mind-forged manacles”
“how the chimney-sweeper’s cry”
“Every blackening church appals”
“hapless soldier’s sigh”
“runs in blood down palace walls”
“midnight streets”
“youthful harlots curse Blasts the new-born infant’s tear”
“Blights with plagues”
“marriage hearse”

Prelude
• “summer evening (led by her)”
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“tied”
“voice of mountain echoes”
“rocky cove”
“usual home”

• “straight I unloosed her chain”
• “Act of stealth and troubled pleasure”

• “horizon’s upmost boundary”
• “far above was nothing but the stars and grey
sky”
• “silent lake”
• “elfin pinnace; lustily”
• “rose upon the stroke”

• “pushed from the shore”
• “my”

• “heaving through the water like a swan”

• “small circles glittering idly in the moon”

• “The horizon’s bound”

• “sparkling light”
• “proud of his skill”

• “Huge peak, black and huge”

• “Unswerving line”
• “fixed”

• “upreared its head”

• “craggy steep”

• “voluntary power instinct”
• “and growing still in stature the grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars”

My last duchess
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“I call that piece of wonder”
“Fra Pandolf”
“I”, “Me”, “my”, “myself”
“Durst”
“Spot of joy”
“stuff”
“Must never hope to reproduce the faint half-flush that dies along her throat”
She had a heart-how shall I say?-too soon made glad, Too easily impressed”
“Her looks went everywhere”
“bough of cherries”
“white mule”
“She ranked my gift of a 900 years old name with Anybody’s gift”
“twas all one!”

The Charge of the light brigade
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“Half a league”
“valley of death”
“rode the six hundred”
Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns! He said”
“Was there a man dismay’d”
“Blundered”
“Theirs not to make reply… reason why, theirs but to do and die”
“cannon right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them”
“volleyed and thundered”
“storm’d at with shot and shell”
“Boldly they rode and well”
“Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell”
“flash’d all their sabres bare”

Exposure
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“Brains ache”
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“merciless iced east winds”
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“knive us”
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“But nothing happens”
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“mad gusts tugging on the wire”
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“twitching agonies of men among its brambles”•
“incessantly”
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“What are we doing here?”
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“Rumbles”
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“Some other war”
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“poignant misery of dawn”
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“War lasts, rain soaks, clouds sag stormy”
“Dawn massing in the eat her melancholy army”
“shivering ranks of grey”
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
“less deadly than the air”
“Shudders black”
“Flock, pause and renew”
“nonchalance”
“fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
“cringe in holes”
“forgotten dreams”
“Is it that we are dying?”

Stormon the island
• “We are prepared: we build our houses
squat”
• “Sink walls in rock…slate”
• “Wizened earth…never troubled us”
• “No stacks or stooks”
• “Nor…trees which might prove company”
• “Wind blows full blast”
• “Leaves and branches can raise a tragic
chorus in a gale”
• “You can listen to the thing you fear
forgetting that it pummels your house
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Beirut
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“All flesh is grass”
“has a job to do”
“solutions slop”
“which did not tremble them”

• “Rural England”
• “Ordinary pain which simple weather can
dispel”
• “to fields which don’t explode beneath the
feet of running children in a nightmare
heat”
• “something is happening”
• “Stranger’s features”
• “twist before his eyes”
• “half-formed ghost”
• “cries of this man’s wife”
• “sought approval without words”

Tissue
• “Paper that lets the light shine through”

“rivers make, roads, rail tracks, mountain folds”

• “This is what could alter things”
• “Thinned by age or touching”

• “Fine slips…grocery shops”
• “How much was sold”

• “Kind you find in well used books”
• “The Koran”

• “Paid by credit card”
• “Fly our lives like paper kites”

• “Written in the names and histories”
• “Who was born to whom”

• “Layer over layer, luminous script over numbers over line”
• “Never wish to build again with brick “

• “Height and weight”
• “Who died where and how”

• “Let the daylight break through the capitals and monoliths”
• “Shapes that pride can make”

• “Sepia date”

• “Trace a grand design”

• “Smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention”

• “Living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last”
• “Smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent”

• “Buildings were paper”
• “Feel their drift”
• “Fall away on a sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind”
• “Maps too
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circle me”

• “Time rolls its tanks and the frontiers rise between us, close like
• “Accuse me of being dark in their free city”
waves”
• “My city hides behind me”
• “Child’s vocabulary I carried here”
• “They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
• “Hollow doll”
• “Opens and spills a grammar”
• “Every coloured molecule of it”
• “May by now be a lie, banned by the state”

Checking Out Me History
• “Dem tell me”
• “Wha dem want to tell me”
• “Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to
me own identity”
• “1066 and all dat”
• “Dick Whittington and he cat”
• “Toussaint L’Ouverture no dem never tell me bout dat”
• “Slave with vision”
• “Lick back napoleon “
• “Toussaint de thorn”
• “Toussaint de beacon of the Haitian revolution”
• “Man who discover de balloon…cow who jumped over
de moon…dish ran away with the spoon”
• “Nanny de Maroon”

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“See far woman…mountain dream”
“Fire-woman struggle…hopeful stream”
“Freedom river”
“Lord Nelson and Waterloo…Shaka de great
Zulu…Columbus 1492…what happen to the Caribs and
the Arawaks too”
“Florence Nightingale…Robin Hood…ole King Cole was a
merry old soul”
“Dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole”
“Travel far

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