10. [Quotes] ⭐️⭐️ Flashcards
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
Author
Sherman Alexie
Night
Author
Elie Wiesel
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Author
Dylan Thomas
In A Dark Time
Author
Theodore Roethke
1.
“I think something broke inside her. But not something anatomical. I believe that she broke her capacity to fully love the rest of her children. Or maybe to fully love me. Or maybe to fully love herself. That audiable snap I heard — that crack of bone — was maybe her soul snapping in half.”
Speaker: Sherman Alexis
Context: His mom was suffering by losing her brother, mom, and daughter so much loss that it affected her to her care.
Significance: He felt guilt and thinks he is responsible for his mom’s grief. He thinks all things happened because of changing where he used to live.
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
2.
I whispered, “I love you,” and walked, grief-drunk and afraid, into the rest of my life.
Speaker: Sherman Alexis
Context: When his mother hardly fell asleep at last, he wept for his mom and said he loves her. He is actually walking away from her but he still loves his mom in his way.
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
“And you, my father, there on the sad height, / Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.”
Speaker: Dylan Thomas
Context: He is watching his father dying and pray his father can fight toward death.
Significance: He is urging his father to take the advice and face the death. He is watching his father die, but begging for him not give in.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
“Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright/ Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay.”
Speaker: Dylan Thomas
Context: Good people end up mourning the things that they were unable to accomplish. Because good people will be remembered in green bay at last, he suggest them to stay good.
Significance: He wants good people to fight towards their death, not giving up.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
