Commanality Quotes Flashcards
What quotes can be used for setting?
War photographer:
“darkroom” … “Rural England”
Mrs Tilscher’s class:
“The classroom flowed like a sweatshop” …. “Sugar paper. Coloured shapes”
The Way my Mother speaks:
“The train this slow evening” …
Originally:
“Red room which fell through the fields” … “Corners, which seem familiar”
Mrs Midas:
“ It was late September”
What quotes can be used for change?
Originally:
“I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake” … “All childhood is an emigration”
Mrs Tilscher’s class:
“the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”…. “Mrs Tilscher loves you” ➡️ “then turned away”
Mrs Midas:
“Seperate beds”
Valentine:
“Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring”
War photographer:
“Ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel”… “ A strangers features slowly start to twist before his eyes”….. “hands which did not tremble then though seem to know”
What quotes can be used for identity?
Originally:
“Where do you come from? Strangers ask.Originally?and I hesitate”…. “I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake”…. “All childhood is an emigration”
In Mrs Tilscher’s class:
“the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”…. “The sky split into a thunderstorm”
War Photographer:
“the only light is red and softly glows”…. “as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”
The way my mother speaks:
“a child who stood at the end of summer”
What quotes can be used for loss?
War photographer:
“a half formed ghost”… “darkroom”… “agonies… “cries”
Originally:
“I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake”… “the city, the…. where we didn’t live anymore”-list…“Vacant rooms”… “I lost a ….. first space”
Mrs Midas:
“I miss most, even now, his hands, his warms hands on my skin” “Seperate beds”
In Mrs Tilscher’s class:
“The inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”… “Mrs Tilscher loved you”➡️”Mrs Tilscher smiled, then turned away”
The Way My Mother speaks:
“The end of summer”… “too blue swapped for a cool grey”
What quotes can be used for pain/suffering?
War photographer:
“Ordinary pain”…. “a half-formed ghost”…. “agonies”… “cries”
Valentine:
“It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief”… “Lethal”… “it’s plantings loops shrink to a wedding ring”
The way my mother speaks:
“Too blue swapped for a cool grey”… “the end of summer”
What quotes can be used for past and present?
War Photographer:
“A half-formed ghost”…. “hands which did not tremble then though seem to know”…”a hundred agonies in black and white for which his editor will pick five or six”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class:
“Mrs Tilscher loves you”➡️”Mrs Tilscher smiles then turned away”…. “Brady and Hindley fade, like the faint uneasy smudge of a mistake”
Originally:
“Big boys… shouting words you don’t understand” - low of security in moving “Your accent wrong”➡️“My voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest”
Mrs Midas:
“his hands, his warm hands on my skin”…”Seperate beds”➡️”We were passionate then”
What quotes can be used for to cope with life changing circumstances?
War photographer:
“Darkroom”…. “A half formed ghost”… “solutions slop”
Valentine:
“Lethal”… “a wobbling photo of grief”
Originally:
“I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake”.. “My parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth”
TWMMS:
“I say my mother’s phrases to myself in my head”… “The day and ever. The day and ever”
Mrs Midas:
“You’ll be able to give up smoking for good”… “I miss most.. his hands… his touch”.. “I served up the meal”
What quotes can be used for emotional conflict?
War Photographer:
“A half formed ghost”… “darkroom”… “hands which did not tremble then though seem to know”… “agonies”
Mrs Midas:
“Him”-minor sentence… “pure selfishness”…. “
Originally:
“Your accent wrong”… “cried” “bawling”…
What quotes can be used for nostalgia?
TWMMS:
“The day and ever, The day and ever”… “The way I say things when I think”… “in a green, erotic pond”
Originally:
“Do I only think I lost a river,culture, speech, sense of first”… “I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake”
Mrs Tilscher’s class:
“The classroom glowed like a sweatshop”… “That feverish July the air tasted of electricity”
Mrs Midas:
“We were passionate then”… “I miss most… his hands… his touch”
What quotes can be used for structure?
Valentine is written in free verse, seemingly unstructured, rather than any conventional form or pattern, in keeping with idea that love should not be constricted by marriage or possessiveness.
Mrs Midas is written in 11 stanzas of 6 unequal length lines each and with no regular rhyme scheme. Poem is a dramatic monologue and length of it reflects in how much detail persona wants to confide in us. The irregular line length and lack of rhyme make it sound like natural speech, a friend telling all to a friend.
Originally is written in 3 stanzas of 8 lines each. This regularity suggests continuity of being Scottish despite outward changes while lack of end rhyme suggests changes, differences. Stanza 1 describes journey from Glasgow; stanza initial isolation in England; stanza 3 assimilation and acceptance of change. Each stanza is a stage in a progression, in keeping with progression of growing up and changing described in poem.
War Photographer is written in 4 stanzas of 6 lines each, with regular rhyme scheme (abbcdd). This very strict pattern, exactly repeated, suggests every print from film exact replicas, every photograph exact record of horrific events. Regularity of stanzas and rhyme scheme also suggest orderliness of life at home in England in contrast to chaos of war abroad.
What quotes can be used for contrast?
War Photographer:
“Rural England”… “fields which do not explode”
In Mrs Tilschers class:
“Mrs Tilscher loves you”➡️”Brady and Hindley”
Originally:
”cries” and “bawling”➡️”stared”… “your accent wrong”➡️”my voice just sounding like the rest”… “my mother singing… to the turn of the wheels”➡️”my parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth”
Valentine:
Title➡️content of the poem
The way my mother speaks:
“The way I say things when I think”
What quotes can be used for symbolism?
War Photographer:
“The only light is red and softly glows”… “as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”
Valentine:
“Not a red rose or a satin heart”… “I gave you an onion”… “for as long as we are”… “it’s platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring”… “It’s scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”… “It’s a moon wrapped in brown paper”
Mrs Midas:
“I served up the meal”… “I miss most… his hands… his touch”… “I woke to the streaming sun”… “gold heart”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class:
“Reports were handed out”… “You ran through the gates impatient to be grown the sky split into a thunderstorm”… “Mrs Tilscher smiled then turned away”… “Over the Easter term the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”
What quotes can be used for personality of the speaker?
Mrs Tilschers class:
“Milk”… “Better than home”
Mrs Midas:
“A fragrant white from Italy”… “I made him sit on the other side”… “I locked the cat in the cellar”… “At least you can give up smoking for good”…
what quotes can be used for imagery?
War Photographer:
“this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass”… “A half-formed ghost”… “a hundred agonies in black and white”
In Mrs Tilscher’s Class:
“A skittle of milk”… “the chalky pyramids rubbed into dust”… “the laugh of a bell swung by a running child”… “The classroom glowed like a sweet shop”… “Brady and Hindley faded, like the faint, uneasy smudge of a mistake”… “A xylophone’s nonsense heard from another form”… “Over the Easter term the tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”… “The air tasted of electricity”
Originally:”(Red room) which fell through the fields”… “miles rushed”… “All childhood is an emigration”… “Skelf of shame”… “I remember my tounge shedding its skin like a snake”
Valentine:
“It’s a moon wrapped in brown paper”… “It promises light”… “like the careful undressing of love”…
“It will blind you with tears like a lover”… “it’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive and faithful”…
TWMMS:
“I am happy and sad like a child who stood at the end of summer”… “a green, erotic pond”
Mrs Midas:
“Drinking the light of the sky”… “it sat in his palm like a light bulb”… “He sat in that chair like a king on a burnished throne”… “he was spitting out the teeth of the rich”… “unwrapping each other rapidly, like presents, fast food”
What is the statement for Originally?
In ‘Originally’ Duffy describes her difficulties with coming to terms with her massive move as well as the physical and literal emotions associated.
