Browning's Poems Flashcards
Porphyria’s Lover Quotes: The sullen wind…
was soon awake.
PLQ: I listened with…
heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria.
PLQ: made the cheerless…
grate light up
PLQ: let the damp…
hair fall
PLQ: From pride, and…
vainer ties dissever
PLQ: Porphyria worshipped me…
suprise made my heart swell, and still it grew
PLQ: Three times
her little throat around. and strangled her
PLQ: Blushed bright…
beneath my burning kiss
PLQ: And all night long…
we have not stirred And yet God has not said a word
My Last Duchess Quotes: That’s my last…
Duchess painted on the wall
MLDQ: Pictured countenance, the depth…
and passion of its earnest glance
MLDQ: ‘twas not her husband’s presence only…
called that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek
MLDQ: Too soon…
made glad
MLDQ: She thanked…
men,-good! But thanked.
MLDQ: My gift of
a nine-hundred-years-old-name
MLDQ: but who passed…
without much the same smile
MLDQ: I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together
MLDQ: Notice Neptune though…
taming a seahorse, thought a rairity
The Laboratory: Which is the poison…
to poison her prithee
TLQ: He is with her…
and they know that I know
TLQ: Grind away…
moisten and mash
TLQ: the exquisite blue…
sure to taste sweetly
TLQ: To carry pure death…
in an earring
TLQ: She’s not little…
no minion like me!
TLQ: Let death be felt…
and let the proof remain
TLQ: The delicate droplet…
my whole fortune’s fee!
TLQ: I dance…
at the King’s!
What to use chapter 1&2 for?
For evidence showing Briony’s control on the rest of the family.
What is the importance for chapter 3?
Sowing the seeds of Briony’s destruction of Robbie and Cecilia’s love
Who is introduced in chapter 4?
Paul Marshall as well as Leon and Danny Hardman.
What is demonstrated in chapter 5&6?
The sinister crime aspect of Atonement is introduced as well as the reader’s role as detectives.
What is important in chapter 7&8?
Briony’s declaration to make the story hers, and then Robbie’s fatal flaw to hand her the message, as if Briony has crafted this herself.
What happens in chapters 9&10?
The build up to the dinner party, the tension is rising and almost culminates in the library scene. However the true crime is still building.
What happens in chapters 11&12?
The action finally kicks in, however it appears as if there isn’t actually any danger for the twins. The cliff-hanger is left at the end of chapter 12.
What happens in chapters 13&14?
The unwinding of events appears almost dream-like, with Briony’s accusation taking precedent over the rape itself. The image of Robbie in the police car is a haunting one.
What happens in Part Two?
Robbie’s heroism is displayed during his time in France. The horrific conditions of Robbie’s treatment in prison and the respite given in his contact with Cecilia. His story ultimately ends, but the reader doesn’t know it.
What happens in the first section of Part Three?
Briony’s of experience of the war and the way she has prioritised nursing is told. Also the first indication of the ‘Atonement’ being Briony’s own book.
What happens in the second section of Part Three?
Briony first goes to the wedding of Paul and Lola before leaving without standing up. She then imagines a visit to Cecilia and Robbie in which she arranges a plan to amend her mistake. However she is too late to make any changes.
London 1999?
The summary of the book, in which Briony is yet again punished with Alzheimer’s. She sees Lola and Paul who are prolific. She then ends the book in a cyclical way with the final performance of the trials of Arabella, however ultimately all the characters are unhappy, aside from Cecilia and Robbie happy in the library.
First portion of Brighton Rock?
Hale desperately trying to escape Pinkie, with the emphasis on the struggling Kolly Kibbler. Ends with his murder.
What happens after the murder of Hale?
Pinkie meets the group in the fish and chip shop, demonstrates his attention to detail and ultimately resolves to woo Rose.
What happens after the scene with Pinkie in Snows cafe.
Ida believes Hale had been forced to commit suicide through her use of the supernatural.
What happens after Ida’s resolve to investigate Hale’s death?
Pinkie tries to woo Rose before visiting Colleoni and then the police officer. Both visits demonstrate he doesn’t command any respect and he wants respect.
What happens after Pinkie visits the police station?
Ida starts to investigate but doesn’t have any help from the police.
Ida visits the police, what happens then?
Pinkie takes Rose out to the countryside and plans a hit on Spicer at the races, however the hit goes wrong and Pinkie has to push Spicer down the stairs. Dallow and Prewitt are the witnesses.
What events follow after the murder of Spicer?
Pinkie proposes marriage to Rose and she accepts. Permission is gained from Rose’s parents and they get married. Cubitt snitches to ida and Pinkie records on the record.
What happens after the recording of the gramaphone?
Pinkie has sex, then grows increasingly paranoid and before creating a fake suicide pact. He spills the vitrol on himself and dies after being cornered, and Rose ends up pregnant, about to listen to the gramaphone recording.
Ballad of Reading Gaol Quotes: He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red
And blood and wine were on his hands
BRGQ: wistful eye…
Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky
BRGQ: For each man kills…
the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die
BRGQ: Lest himself should rob
The prison of its prey
BRGQ: And twice a day, the Chaplain called
And left little tract
BRGQ: We tore the tarry rope to shreds With
blunt and bleeding nails
BRGQ: The moaning wind went
wandering round the Weeping prison walls
BRGQ: The prison seemed to fill…
For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered to kill
BRGQ: The wardens strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes
BRGQ: They hanged him,
as a beast is hanged
BRGQ: The Chaplain
would not kneel to pray, By his dishonoured grave
BRGQ: The vilest deeds
like prison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air
BRGQ: For only blood
can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal
PGQ: took young Peter in his hand…
to pray, But soon the stubborn boy from care broke loose
PGQ: Nay, once had dealt the scarilegious blow…
On his bare head
PGQ: relinquish ale…
and play
PGQ: Said calmly, ‘Grimes is at…
his exercise,
Pinn’d, beaten, cold, pinch’d, threaten’d and abused’
PGQ: Yet murmurs were there,
and some questions ask’d
PGQ: Of gentle blood…
some noble sinners son
PGQ: Cold nervous tremblings
shook his study frame
PGQ: Am I to die to-day?
My Lord, in mercy give me time to pray
PGQ: I saw my father on the water stand
And hold a thin pale boy in either hand
PGQ: And there came flame
about him mix’d with blood
PGQ: Where the flood open’d…
there I heard a shriek
Of tourtured guilt
PGQ: “Again they come!”
and mutter’d as he died
