English Literature - Poetry - Essential Quote Memorisation Flashcards
When We Two Parted Give three key quotes
‘In silence and tears’
‘Thy vows are all broken’
‘Pale grew thy cheek and cold’
What are 3 key quotes for love’s philosophy (one quote is two separate words)
Mountains kiss high heaven
Law divine
Sunlight/moonbeams
What are 5 key quotes for Porphyria’s Lover?
‘Spread, o’er all, her yellow hair’
‘Sullen wind’
‘Too weak’
‘Little head’
‘God has not said a word’
Give 2 key quotes for ‘I think of thee!’
‘My thoughts do twine and bud’
‘Renew thy presence’
Give 3 key quotes for neutral tones
‘Sun was white’
‘Fallen from ash, and were grey’
‘Grin of bitterness’
‘Ominous bird’
Give 5 key quotes for letters from Yorkshire
Heartful of headlines
Is your life more real because you dig and sow?
Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
Pouring light and air into an envelope
Feeding words onto a blank screen
Give 3 quotes for the farmer’s bride
‘Her eyes, her hair, her hair!’
‘Sweet as the first wild violets’
‘I’ve (italics) hardly heard her speak at all’
Give 3 key quotes for walking away
‘Like a satellite/wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away’
‘The small, the scorching ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay’
‘How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go’
Give 3 quotes for Eden rock
‘The sky whitens as if lit by three suns’
‘Over the drifted stream’
‘Still two years old and Trembling at his feet’
Give 3 key quotes for follower (note these need RECHOOSING)
‘His shoulders globed like a full sail strung’
‘Nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always’
‘It is my father who keeps stumbling/Behind me, and will not go away’
Give 3 quotes for mother, any distance
‘Unreeling/ years between us. Anchor. Kite’
‘ space walk through the empty bedrooms’
‘ hatch that opens on an endless sky/to fall or fly’
Give 3 quotes for Before You We’re Mine
‘Thousand eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows’
‘ the decade ahead of my loud possessive yell was the best one, eh?’
‘Cha! Cha! Cha!’
‘Sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine’
Give 4 quotes for winter swans
‘Waterlogged earth/gulping for breath at our feet/ as we skirted the lake, silent and apart,’
‘Halved themselves in the dark water’
‘Icebergs of white feather’
‘Like a pair of wings settling after flight.’
Give 3 key quotes for ‘Singh Song!’
‘Ground/mouse’
‘My bride’
‘He vunt me not to hav a break’
Give 4 key quotes for climbing my grandfather
‘Glassy ridge of a scar’
‘Climbing has its dangers’
‘Knowing/the slow pulse of his good heart’
‘Smiling mouth to drink among teeth’
