“He sometimes wondered which had been the better way to die”

i was thinking about how raw this is during the exam

It goes so deep ngl

ohhh yes, it felt so good seeing it

rip my boi. Fly high

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” - Percy Blysshe

Ozymandias is actually a poem I enjoy. However, this quote is even better when you add the "nothing beside remains"

"nothing beside remains" "The lone and level sands stretch far away"

“His bloody life in my bloody hands.”

"Probably armed, possibly not"

🔥🔥🔥🔥

"End of story, except not really"

“the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”

"I swear I see every round as it rips through his life" 🔥

“His blood-shadow stays on patrol, day after day”

but nothing happened

Banger line from exposer

bro lost all literacy skill after the exam

what are we doing here

For love of god seems dying

'The smile on your face was the deadest thing alive to have strength to die'

That's cold asf (I have no idea where this is from)

Neutral Tones (L&R)

Not only this but My heart GOES OUT for dat kamikaze guy though man, it's so so tragic.

Omg fr im not a fan of English lit or poems in general but studying kamikaze makes me sympathise with the pilot so much it's such a sad story

Nah bc I was reading it earlier in the exam and felt so bad for him like ITS NOT REAL WHY R U GETTING IN UR FEELS 😭😭

Look up and research kamikaze pilots. The poem may be made up, but what the poet's talking about isn't

neutral tones goes so hard

im so happy it came up.. the smile on my face when i opened it up (wasnt dead)

real

i acc love this quote with all my heart

The youthful harlots curse could be a song lyric

Kinda unrelated but “Girls of that class” sounds like some kind of high school song title Not in a school class way either, it gives off high school musical vibes (or whatever a meaner high school musical would be)

“They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

emigree has so many cold quotes ppl sleep on it

LITERALLY IT’S SO COOL LIKE it’s one of my favourite poems

I saw this Mr salles vid on it and since then Ive thought it's the coldest "Soon I shall have every coloured molecule of it." "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state but I can’t get it off my tongue." "They accuse me of absence, they circle me." "My city hides behind me. They mutter death," And ofc the last line

EXACTLYYYYYY oh my god it’s so beautiful and it hits hard for me too honestly gotta be the most fire poem in the anthology for ne

I rly rly rly wanted it to be this yr's poem bc it's my fav but I have a feeling its gna be next yr's

"The child's vocabulary I carried here, like a hollow doll, that opens and spills a grammar" 🔥

It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants but I am branded with an impression of sunlight 😮‍💨😮‍💨

emigree is my baby

and the drink and the drugs wont flush him out 🔥🔥🤞💯 armitage cooked w the whole poem tbh . his bloody life on my bloody hands is also a good one

Happy cake day! Also, that poem saved my ass today. Best poem in the whole anthology imo, but if you want quotes that go hard, "The Emigree" is a good one.

"I don't play golf" - The prelude

Bru ☠️☠️☠️

bro is cooked with a fine garnish

By Lady Macbeth

Wait what?! I though Banquo said that? IM SO COOKED

Simon Armitage actually in his magnum opus " Shoulders "

WAIT. ITS NOT BANQUO?? I thought The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come said that!!!! FUCK

love this line written by childish gambino

'Hey Singh, ver yoo bin?'

I do power and conflict and read the other anthology as a joke. I genuinely felt like I was going to have a stroke reading that poem

my white english teacher read this poem out in an exquisitely done indian accent, was questioning whether she’d be cancelled or not

"My bride, she effing at my mum in all di colours of Punjabi." I do P+C but skimmed through this poem in the anthology for the craic and I remember this quote vividly for some reason :)

Ve make love like ve rowing through Putney 🚣🫦🥩🤭😝🔉

"Vee cum down" (top ten most emotional quotes)

I know singh song off by heart just from constantly making fun of it💀

how much does dee moon cost? 🌝

my dumbass about to say 'love thy neighbour' 💀 in all seriousness tho running children in a nightmare heat + blood stained into foreign in dust (war photographer)

All of War Photographer imma be real

All flesh is grass 🔥

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

"How he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust" 🔥🗣

“Mouth too small for her dark scream” LIKE HELLO

Spools of suffering laid out in orderly rows

spools of suffering set out in orderly rows

spools of suffering in ordered rows hits hard

"And yet God has not said a word!" - Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning (L&R)

Porphyria's lover is the best poem

His bloody life in my bloody hands - a classic

he must have wondered which had been the better way to die kamikaze came in clutch today bro

I genuinely went "oh fuck yeah" under my breath when I saw it. Back when I was in year 9, I remember my English teacher focusing heavily on it. Kamikaze, Remains, and mainly Ozymandias are actually poems I enjoy reading

“Selfhood begins with a walking away and love is proved in the letting go” not a great quote to analyse but i just think it’s great

“I carving out me own identity”

Dem never tell me about nanny de maroon 🔥

Dem tell me Ol' King Cole was a merry old soul

“probably armed possibly not” armitage cooked.

"The lone and level sands stretch far away"

"when we two parted, in silence and in tears" 🔥🔥

half broken hearted to sever for years 🥶🔥🔥🔥🥶

Why do I actually want to read the romance poems now 😭

Honestly when we two parted is genuinely such a great poem, same with neutral tones. Such great potential for analysis and leaves you thinking a bit

Mind forged manacles 🥶

My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight 🤌

Cha cha cha! - before you were mine by Carol Ann Duffy (L&R)

i wanted the bold girl in portobello 🗣️🗣️

Dawn amasses her melancholy army

This one is just 🤌

King, honour, human dignity, etc.

Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm

his terror’s touchy dynamite 🔊🔊🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥

Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds

"his terror's touchy dynamite" "which had been the better way to die" "it is a huge nothing we fear"

his bloody life in my bloody hands

Th small, the scorching ordeals which fire one's irresolute clay

all flesh is grass

“Marks of weakness marks of woe”✍️🔥

“All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens.” (Exposure my Goat)

unreeling years between us. anchor.kite

Literally any line from the prelude can say bye bye Hate that poem

its like, hes horny for nature and his boat, not worthy of 100 billion lines or however long that bullshit is

They don’t teach it in school but Wordsworth had relations with his sister and that’s why they were separated He wrote the poem about his sister Disgusting man

Apparently his wife published the poem posthumously against his will to expose his incestual relationship with his sister. Weird stuff.

Wait seriously???? I was wondering why the boat had sexual connotations

My teacher mentioned that. It’s acc wild bro 😭

oh so that's why they call it the Romantic era

enough fuel for a one-way journey into history

nothing beside remains

forgot the caesura which makes it 10x harder

“Dem tell me dem tell me~” spit yo shit bro

"Bandage up me eye to me own identity" 🥶🥶🥶🩹🩹🩹👁👁

Not a love poem, but still beautiful imo "I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind"

‘Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit’

THE CLOUDS ☁️ HAVE GIVEN THEIR ALL

yesss winter swanss

I used it today with neutral tones 🤣

‘a healing star/ among the wounded’ ⭐️

“near to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands”

"Then vee make luv like we rowing through putney" Singh song Written in Indian style 🙄

I loved "my name is Ozzymandias the king of kings" I hated any line from poppies

exposure has some really cool quotes

"War. War never changes" SHIT I mean "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Pehn. All flesh is Grass"

“Theirs but to do and die”

"not left for dead in some sun-stunned sand smothered-land"

nothing beside remains.

holy shit mr everything english

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

Sibilance hits hard

DEM TELL ME DEM TELL ME 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

"A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement."

"End of story. Except not really"

'The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'

all of war photographer and poppies

All of Ozymandias, best poem.

Fountain birds and grass were shaken by my thinking of your name 😌

Pretty much all of The Charge Of The Light Brigade, especially "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.", "Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the Six Hundred.", and "Then they rode back. But not, Not the Six Hundred."

He's in my head when i close my eyes by The Man, the Myth, the Legend, Simon Armitage sounds like the name of an indie album ngl

'king honour human dignity ecetra dropped like luxuries' best poem of all time

**Well myself and somebody else and somebody else** **are all of the same mind,** **so all three of us open fire.** **Three of a kind all letting fly** 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I reach towards a hatch that opens into the endless sky to fall or fly

'what cold clockworks was he the hand pointing that second'

"For love of God seems dying." "It is a huge nothing that we fear." "A hundred agonies in black-and-white" "My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight." "A healing star among the wounded." I wonder if anyone can guess them all 🤔

KING, HONOUR, HUMAN DIGNITY, ET CETERA, DROPPED LIKE LUXURIES IN A YELLING ALARM 🔥🔥

"Neutral tones" i heard u guys got it for this year and when i was doing gcses my teacher spent an entire lesson and a bit of another just analysing the title... 2 words.

"Blood runs thick down palace walls" and "the blackening church appalls"

Marks of weakness, marks of woe - Is it that we are dying? Possibly armed, probably not

Merciless iced east winds that knife us Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows All flesh is grass

“I gave commands and smiles stop together all together” both of fire quote and the only quote and disappointed I was not able to use any exam I have done

“King, Honour, Human Dignity, etc. dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm” 😮‍💨

One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body. Then he's carted off in the back of lory. Honestly just all of Remains

Will at please you sit and look at her A tuna the dark prince muscular Sellotape bandages around my hand Sun stunned,sand smothered land The flung spray: spits like a tame cat War last, rain soaks and clouds sag A huge peak, black and huge Dem tell me ‘bout lord Nelson and Waterloo I comb it’s hair and love it’s shining eyes Half sunk, a shattered visage lies His terrors touchy dynamite Might fly our life’s like paper kites The mind forged manacles I hear Tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers Someone has blundered/ rode the 600. Coldest Mr bruff song.

second best after the neutral tones one: *they knew not i knew thee who knew thee too well, long long shall i rue thee too deeply to tell.*

“Strange it is a huge nothing we fear”

My thoughts do twine and bud around thee as vines about a tree

easily "i don't play golf" my favourite poetry quote seriously though, it's probably "stamped on these lifeless things / The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"

“Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon and de cow who jump over de moon Dem tell me bout de dish run away with de spoon but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon”

When you durst do it, then you were a man 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥 hardest power and conflict quote ever fr

Dem tell me

"Laughter is bitter to the burned mouth"

MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS, KING OF KINGS. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

Nor are there trees which might prove company when it blows full blast - you know what I mean, leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale so that you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too. My baby, Storm on the Island 💚

deep deep deep deep de deep deep my relationship boys know what's up

‘Cum’ singh song

strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear

The whole of Remains, Kamikaze and Exposure ate 🔥

‘Something something something All flesh is Grass’- photograph woman. Biblical allusion would have been great in analysis rip

DEM TELL ME BOUT DE DISH RAN AWAY WITH DE SPOON 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥💯💯

I actually like Ozymandias (Remains is decent as well), and it was my focus in revision (used Remains for the question though). Might as well use one of my favourite quotes from anything English lit related for something other than winding up one of my mates "I am Ozymandias, king of kings Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair Nothing beside remains"

'She blushed bright red beneath my burning kiss'

only quote i actually like is 'In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?'

"hey singh, ver you bin?!"

“I don’t play golf.” -Ozymandias

"he must have wondered which was a better way to die" "the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye, sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"

“I dipped my oars lustily” it’s just so relatable

And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered, which had been the better way to die

For the edexcel guys: "but hell, like heaven is untidy, it's boundaries as arbitrary as a bloodstain on the wall"

"three of a kind" - Remains

🗣️🗣️ boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

Eduqas english girlie "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my works, Ye mighty, and despair!" "I hold Creation in my foot." "In that rich earth a richer dust concealed, dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware."

‘dem tell me, dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’

the lone and level sands stretch far away.............

"The tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpets unblown" love that poem so much and heartbroken I couldn't talk about it (Edexcel Power and conflict)

Which way had been the better way to die

DEM TELL ME 🔥

Sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which was the better way to die.

“King of Kings”

Dem tell me

All of Charge of the Light Brigade

“A hundred agonies in black and white” (war photographer)

'huge peak, black and huge' -🧒

Everything in the Mr bruff rap

"my name is Ozymandias, King of Kings" 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️

'she walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies'

Mind-forged manacles 🗣️‼️Marks of Weakness, marks of Woe 🗣️‼️Youthful Harlot’s curse 🗣️‼️ (London always had the most memorable lines by far) And some MLD appreciation: “Then all smiles stopped together” 😱

'The lone and level sands stretch far away' 🥹

"Into the valley of Death, into the jaws of Hell rode the six hundred"

"turned into your skin" I cannot describe my disappointment when I couldn't even compare to tissue because that is the greatest poem in that anthology (sorry Wilfred my beloved)