15 quotes with full 6-part analysis
“And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man”
William Wordsworth · Lines Written in Early Spring
“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king”
Percy Bysshe Shelley · England in 1819
“Shall earth no more inspire thee, / Thou lonely dreamer now?”
Emily Brontë · Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
“The world seems one huge prison-house and court”
George Eliot · In a London Drawingroom
“What part of Africa is Jamaica?”
James Berry · On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955
“my name has been mauled by English mouths”
Raman Mundair · Name Journeys
“I know your kind, / travelling without a passport”
Shamshad Khan · pot
“searching the sky for spaces / where he could stack his dreams”
Seni Seneviratne · A Wider View
“I'd only have to say the word / and it opened a gate”
Liz Berry · Homing
“and all the girls are walking / one by one by one”
Imtiaz Dharker · A Century Later
“his father before him, and his father too”
Louisa Adjoa Parker · The Jewellery Maker
“I can't hear the barista / over the coffee machine”
Raymond Antrobus · With Birds You're Never Lonely
“And if the whole world crumbles, you make your own”
Roger Robinson · A Portable Paradise
“Like an heiress / I have entered”
Grace Nichols · Like an Heiress
“you are a supernova”
Caleb Femi · Thirteen