Power and Conflict Poetry Quotes

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Power and Conflict Poetry
- Kamikaze
  - a one way journey into histiory
  - like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea
  - they treated him as though he no longer existed
  - gradually we too learned to be silent
- London
  - every black'ning church appals
  - marriage hearse
  - mind forg'd manacles I hear
  - the chartered Thames
- The Emigree
  - my memory of it is sunlight-clear
  - my city comes to me in its own white plane
  - There was once a country
  - that bright filled paperweight
- My Last Duchess
  - that's my last Duchess
  - my gift of a 900 years old name
  - Notice Neptune... taming a sea-horse
  - I gave commands; then all smiles stopped
- Ozymandias
  - 'my name is Ozymandias king of kings'
  - sneer of cold command
  - round the decay of that colossal wreck
  - lone and level sands stretch far away
- Bayonet Charge
  - suddenly he awoke and was running - raw
  - king, honour, human dignity dropped like luxuries
  - threw up a yellow hare
  - patriotic tear
- Storm On The Island
  - We are prepared
  - Exploding comfortably
  - spits tame cat turned savage
  - It is a huge nothing we fear
- Exposure
  - But nothing happens
  - merciless iced east winds that knive us
  - black with snow
  - slowly our ghosts drag home
- Poppies
  - leaned against it like a wishbone
  - spasms of paper red
  - hoping to hear your playground voice
  - walked with you to the front door, threw it open
- Checking Out Me History
  - Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me
  - Dem never tell me bout nanny de maroon
  - Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat
  - I carving me own identity
- Remains
  - probably armed, possibly not
  - rips through his life
  - his bloody life in my bloody hands
  - his blood-shadow stays on the street
- The Prelude
  - towered up between me and the stars
  - a huge peak black and huge
  - huge and mighty forms, that do not live like living men
  - my boat heaved through the water like a swan
- Charge Of The Light Brigade
  - jaws of Death
  - valley of Death
  - someone had blundered
  - while horse and hero fell
- Tissue
  - in the back of the Koran... names and histories
  - what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like kites
  - who was born to whom... who died where and how
  - with living tissue raise a structure never meant to last
- War Photographer
  - All flesh is grass
  - a hundred agonies in black-and-white
  - spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
  - his hands, which did not seem to tremble then though seem to now

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