english poetry quotes (copy)

into the valley/jaws of death (COTLB)

when can their glory fade? (COTLB)

cannon to right/left/in front/ of/ behind them’ (COTLB)

flashed all their sabres bare (COTLB)

storm’d at with shot and shell (COTLB)

theirs but to do and die (COTLB)

Lord Raglan sends order for soldiers to stop Russians taking heavy guns but miscommunication causes them to go to the wrong place

‘sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’(exposure)(less deadly than the air…)

‘silent’ ‘salient’ (exposure)

flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces (exposure)

wind ‘like twitching agonies of men’ (exposure)

‘flickering gunnery rumbles, far off, like a dull rumour’ (exposure)

but nothing happens (exposure)

‘our ghosts drag home’ (exposure)

Wilfred Owen was in the army, hospitalised May 1917

‘suddenly he awoke’(Bayonet charge)

bullets smacking the belly out of the air- (bc)

lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm (bc)

‘patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron’ (Bc)

‘in what cold clockwork of the stars and nations’ (BC)

‘like a man who has jumped up in the dark’ (bc)

‘yellow-hare that rolled like a flame’ (Bc)

‘terror’s touchy dynamite’ (Bc)

Ted Hughes’ father told him WW1 stories-survived his regiment’s massacre at Gallipoli

‘legs it up the road’ (remains)

‘all of the same mind’ (remains)

rips through his life (remains)

sort of inside out (remains)

pain itself, the image of agony (remains)

blood shadow (remains)

‘sleep’ ‘dream’ (remains)

‘the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out’ (remains)

‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’ (remains)

Armitage made a film called ‘The Not Dead’ and in preparation interviewed veteran soldiers of different wars

‘spasm of paper red’ (poppies)

‘my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt’ (poppies)

leaned against it(war memorial) like a wishbone (poppies)

you were away, intoxicated’ (poppies)

‘sellotape bandages around my hand’ (poppies)

‘wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose’ (poppies)

‘released like a song bird from its cage’ (poppies)

‘world overflowing (enjambment) like a treasure chest’ (poppies)

Weir felt the poem ‘addresses the female experience’ and was a '‘consciously political act’

‘spools of suffering’ (war photographer)

flesh is grass' (wp)

half formed ghost (wp)

hundred agonies in black and white (wp)

eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers (wp)

they do not care (wp)

blood stained into foreign dust (wp)

Carol Ann Duffy’s friends were war photographers

‘shaven head full of incantations’ (kamikaze)

little fishing boats strung out like bunting (kamikaze)

arcing in swathes like a huge flag (kamikaze)

‘dark shoals of fishes flashing silver’ (kamikaze)

‘-yes, grandather’s boat-’ (kamikaze)

as though he no longer existed (kamikaze)

he must have wondered which had been the better way to die (kamikaze)

Garland’s knowledge of the suicide attempts by Japanese pilots against allied ships in the closing stages of WW2-1000 pilots died

‘sunlight clear’ (emigree)

bright, filled paperweight (emigree)

sick with tyrants (emigree)

as time rolls its tanks (emigree)

frontiers rise between us, close like waves (emigree)

shining eyes(emigree)

my city takes me dancing (emigree)

city of walls (emigree)

they mutter death (emigree)

‘paper that lets light shine through’ (tissue)

could alter things (tissue)

sepia date (tissue)

transparent with attention(tissue)

fly our lives like kites(tissue)

raise a structure never meant to last (tissue)

‘paper smoothed and stroked and thinned(…) turned into your skin’ (tissue)

‘sun shines through their borderlines’(tissue)

Dharker was born in Pakistan and grew up in Scotland

‘we are prepared’(sonti)

‘wizened earth’(sonti)

fear ‘pummels your house’(sonti)

sea ‘exploding’(sonti)

‘flung spray hits’ ‘spits like a tame cat turned savage’(sonti)

‘we just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly’ (sonti)

bombarded by the empty air (sonti)

Heaney was a Catholic in Northern Ireland-faced discrimination and persecution from government and police

horizon’s utmost boundary (prelude)

‘silent lake’ ‘silent water’ (prelude)

‘voluntary power instinct’-mountain (prelude)

‘grim’ ‘huge’(repeated) (prelude)

‘glittering idly’ ‘sparkling light’ (prelude)

‘upreared its head’-mountain '(prelude)

hung like a darkness (prelude)

towered (…) with a purpose of its own (prelude)

Wordsworth wrote prelude as autobiographical

a shattered visage (osymadias)

sneer of cold command (osy)

the hand that mocked and the heart that fed (osy)

king of kings(osy)

look on my work (..) and despair! (osy)

‘decay if that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands’ (osy)