. Flashcards
Tissue
- paper that let’s the light shine through
- sun shines through// daylight breaks through
- fly our lives like paper kites
- turned into your skin
- transparent with attention
Eric
- early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
- you don’t understand. You never did. You never even tried.
- she wasn’t the usual sort
- (involuntarily) my God!
- why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
- I hate these fat old tarts
- (suddenly guffaws)
- I insisted- it seems
- I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty
- you killed her- and the child
Soti
we just sit tight
- exploding comfortably
- bombarded, blasts, salvo, strafes
- spits like a tame cat turned savage
- strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
Mrs Birling
- I did nothing I’m ashamed of
- I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence
- girls of that class
- a rather cold woman
- they’re overtired. In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are
- go and look for the father… it’s his responsibility
- she had only herself to blame
- as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
- I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it
- her husbands social superior
Gerald
- I hate those hard eyed dough faced women
- I insisted… I made her take some money
- everything’s alright now Sheila
- I’ve suddenly realised- taken it in properly - that she’s dead
- you couldn’t have done anything else
- there’s still no proof it was really the same girl
- knew it couldn’t last
- well bred young man about the town
- looked young and fresh and charming
Sheila
- is it the one you wanted me to have?
- (miserably) so I’m really responsible?
- I suppose we’re all nice people now
- it’s you two who are being childish
- you don’t seem to have learnt anything
- these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people
- (laughs rather hysterically) why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows
- what he made me feel. Fire and blood and anguish
- Mother, I think it was cruel and vile
- very pleased with life and rather excited
Prelude
Like a living thing, strode after me
A huge peak, black and huge
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men
It was an act of stealth and trouble pleasure
Were a trouble to my dreams
Ozymandias
Sneer of cold command
The hand that mocked them
Lone and level sands stretch far away
Colossal wreck
My name is ozymandias, king of kings
Kamikaze
A tuna the dark Prince muscular, dangerous.
Arcing in swathes like a huge flag
He must have wondered which had been the better way to die
Her father embarked at sunrise
The dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards towards the sun
London
Marriage hearse
The chartered Thames does flow
Mind forged manacles
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
Runs in blood down palace walls
Comh
Balloon, moon, spoon– de cow jump over the moon
Mountain, fire, stream, river
I carving out me identity
Dem tell me dem tell me what dem want to tell me
Bandage up… blind me to me own identity
Inspector
He knows
Impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefullness
We are members of one body
Speaks carefully, weightily
Their suffering and chance of happiness all intertwined with our lives
(Massively) public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
They will be taught in fire and blood and anguish
Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that.
You used the power you had… to punish the girl
Mr Birling
- lower costs and higher prices
Mixed up together like bees in a hive
If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody… it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?
Why you hysterical young fool - get back - or ill…
A heavy looking rather portentous man
I can’t accept any responsibility
The famous younger generations who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke
There’s a fair chance that I may find myself into the next honours list
A man has to make his own way, has to look after himself
Eva
One of the things that prejudiced me against her
(With dignity) we’ve done a great deal of useful work for deserving cases
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
There are millions and millions of Eva smiths and john smiths
Died in misery and agony - hating life
Young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down there
(Unhappily) I’d give thousands, yes thousands
Very pretty// big dark eyes
Mld
Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea horse
Her looks went everywhere
Looking as if she were alive
(Since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but i)
I gave commands
Wp
A hundred agonies in black and white
Half formed ghost
They do not care// impassively
Rural England
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
Emigree
They accuse me of absence, they circle me
Bright, filled paperweight
Branded by an impression of sunlight
I comb it’s hair and love it’s shining eyes
That child’s vocabulary, I carried here like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar
Wp structure
- unchanging - 6 lines per stanza
- caesura
Soti structure
- long sentences
- enjambment
Mld structure
- dramatic monologue
- iambic pentameter
- 1 long paragraph
Kami structur
- stanzas with equal line length
- free verse
- enjambement
- 3rd and 1st person narration
Emigree structure
- caesura at end
- free verse
- enjambement
-epistrophe
Tissue structure
- enjambment
- free verse
Prelude structure
- epic poem
- blank verse
