15 quotes with full 6-part analysis
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Percy Bysshe Shelley · Ozymandias
“In every cry of every Man, / In every Infant's cry of fear, / I hear mind-forg'd…”
William Blake · London
“a huge peak, black and huge, / As if with voluntary power instinct, / Upreared i…”
William Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude
“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.”
Robert Browning · My Last Duchess
“Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson · The Charge of the Light Brigade
“But nothing happens.”
Wilfred Owen · Exposure
“It is a huge nothing that we fear.”
Seamus Heaney · Storm on the Island
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries”
Ted Hughes · Bayonet Charge
“his blood-shadow stays on the street”
Simon Armitage · Remains
“I traced the ridge of his hair through my fingertips like a Braille version”
Jane Weir · Poppies
“A hundred agonies in black-and-white / from which his editor will pick out five …”
Carol Ann Duffy · War Photographer
“Paper that lets the light / shine through, this / is what could alter things.”
Imtiaz Dharker · Tissue
“my city takes me dancing through the city / of walls”
Carol Rumens · The Emigrée
“Dem tell me / Dem tell me / Wha dem want to tell me”
John Agard · Checking Out Me History
“they treated him / as though he no longer existed”
Beatrice Garland · Kamikaze