Elm Flashcards
1
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Stanza 1 Key Quote
A
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root.
2
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Stanza 4 Key Quote
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All night I shall gallop thus, impetuously,
Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf,
3
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Stanza 5 Key Quote
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Tin-white, like arsenic
4
Q
Stanza 6
A
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.
Scorched to the root
My red filaments burn and stand, a hand of wires
5
Q
Stanza 9 Key Quote
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How your bad dreams possess and endow me.
6
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Stanza 11 Key quote
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I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me
7
Q
Stanza 14
A
Its snaky acids kiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults
That kill, that kill, that kill.
