Quotes from Poems - AQA power and conflict

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Ozymandias

THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -PRIDE

  • "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone                                                    
  • Stand in the desert"    
  • "Half sunk , a shattered visage lies"
  • "My name is Ozymandias , king of kings                                                 
  •  Look on my works , ye mighty and despair!"         
  • "boundless and bare,                                                                                   
  • The lone and level sands sretch far away"                                      
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My Last Duchess

THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - PRIDE , IDENTITY

"That's my last duchess painted on the wall,                                       

Looking as if she were alive"

"She liked  whatever                                                                      

she looked on, and her looks went everywhere"

"I gave commands;                                                                                           

Then all smiles stopped together,"

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Exposure

THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE

"Watching , we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire ,

Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles."

"Pale flakes with ********* stealth come feeling for our faces"

"But nothing happens"

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Bayonet Charge

THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"Suddenly , he awoke and he was running - raw

In raw - seamed hot khaki , his sweat heavy..."

"Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

And crawled in a threshing circle , it mouth wide..."

"His terror's touchy dynamite"

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Remains

THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - GUILT

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

I see broad daylight on the other side"

"End of story , except not really"

"Probably armed , possibly not"

"His bloody life in my bloody hands"

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War Phtographer

THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - ANGER , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - GUILT , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"In his darkroom , he is finally alone

with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows"

"only light is red and softly glows,

as though this was a church and he

a priest"

"to fields which don't explode beneath your feet

of running children in a nightmare heat"

"Where he earns his living and they do not care"

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Kamikaze

THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE, MEMORY , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES.

"Her father embarked at sunrise

With a flask of water , a samurai sword"

"A shaven head

Full of powerful incantations"

"A tuna , the dark prince , muscular and dangerous"

"little fishing boats

Strung out like bunting"

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London

THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS, LOSS AND ABSENCE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -ANGER, INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness , marks of woe"

"In every cry of every man,

In every infants cry of fear,

The mind forged manacles I hear"

"How the youthful harlot's curse ...

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"

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Extract from , The Prelude

THEMES - POWER OF NATURE , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS -PRIDE , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"Small circles gathering idly in the moon ,

Until they melted all into one track

Of sparkling light"

".. a huge peak , black and huge,

As if with voluntary power instinct,

Upreared its head"

"..moved slowly through the mind

by day and were a trouble to my dreams"

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , REALITY OF CONFLICT, IDENTITY

"Half a league , half a league,

Half a league onwards,

All into the valley of Death

rode the six hundred"

"Forward the light brigade

Charge for the guns!"

"When can their glory fade?"

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Storm on the Island

THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR

"We are prepared: we build our houses squat.

Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate."

"The wizened earth has never troubled us

With hay , so as you can see , there are no stacks"

"The flung spray hits

The very windows ,spits like a tame cat

Turned savage."

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Poppies

THEMES - EFFECTS OF CONFLICT , LOSS AND ABSENCE , MEMORY , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - FEAR , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"I wanted to graze my nose

across the tip of your nose , play at

being eskimos like we did when

you were little"

" All my words flattened , rolled, turned into felt."

"I traced

the inscriptions on the war memorial,

Leaned against it like a wishbone."

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The Emigree

THEMES - LOSS AND ABSENCE , MEMORY , IDENTITY , INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES

"There was once a country.. I left it as a child

but my memory of it is sunlight clear"

"...but I can't get it off my toungue. It tastes of sunlight"

"The worst news of it cannot break

My original view , the bright , filled paperweight

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Checking Out Me History

THEMES -  POWER OF HUMANS , NEGATIVE EMOTIONS - ANGER , IDENTITY

"Dem tell me

Dem tell me

Wha dem want to tell me"

" Dem tell me bout 1066 and all datDem tell me bout **** Whittington and he cat"

"And even when the British said noShe still brave the Russian snow" (MARY SEACOLE)

" But now I checking out me own historyI carving out me identity"

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Tissue

THEMES - POWER OF HUMANS , POWER OF NATURE , IDENTITY

"Paper lets the light

Shine through, this

is what could alter things"

"Maps too. The sun shines through

Their borderlines, the marks

That rivers make, roads,

Railtracks , mountainfolds,"

"Might fly our lives like paper kites"

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