Learnt Comparison Poems - Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
“I am poor”
A
A complaint
2
Q
“white blisters beaded”
A
Nettles
3
Q
“Like a girl dreaming of childhood”
A
One Flesh
4
Q
“Not a red rose or a satin heart”
A
Valentine
5
Q
“winters day”
A
Neutral Tones
6
Q
“Passionate nights”
A
The manhunt
7
Q
“Slashed in fury”
A
Nettles
8
Q
“Chidden of God - God curst sun”
A
Neutral tones
9
Q
“Moon wrapped in brown paper”
A
Valentine
10
Q
“Murmuring sparkiling living love”
A
a complaint
11
Q
“Only then”
A
The manhunt
12
Q
“Like a confession”
A
One flesh
13
Q
“pond, sun, leaves, ash”
A
Neutral Tones
14
Q
“fractured, punctured”
A
The manhunt
15
Q
“regiment of spite”
A
Nettles
16
Q
“spears”
A
Nettles
17
Q
“And flow it did”
A
A Complaint
18
Q
“Alive enough … to die”
A
Neutral Tones
19
Q
“Careful undressing of love”
A
Valentine
20
Q
“preparation”
A
One flesh
21
Q
“Parachute, rudder”
A
The manhunt
22
Q
“The smile on your mouth … deadest thing”
A
Neutral Tones
23
Q
“Silence between… they’re old”
A
One Flesh
24
Q
“grazed heart”
A
The Manhunt
25
"A well of love"
A complaint
26
"Tender skin"
Nettles
27
"a wobbling photo of grief"
Valentine
28
"Years ago"
Neutral tones
29
"Time itself a feather"
One flesh
30
"Fierce kiss"
Valentine
31
"It may be deep-... never dry"
A complaint
32
"Busy sun and rain"
Nettles
33
"possessive and faithful"
Valentine
34
"whose fire...now grown cold"
One flesh
35
"foetus of metal'
The Manhunt
36
gray/grayish"
Neutral Tones
37
"platinum loops"
Valentine
38
"Lying apart now"
one flesh
39
"fond heart"
A complaint
40
"Would often feel sharp wounds again"
Nettles
41
"Unexploded mine"
Manhunt
42
"scent will cling to your fingers"
Valentine
43
"porcelain collarbone"
Manhunt
44
"chastity"
One Flesh
45
"explore, search,source"
Manhunt
46
"Pond"
Neutral Tones
47
"Cling to your knife"
Valentine
48
"Only then did i come close"
Manhunt
49
"Such change hath made me poor"
A complaint
50
"Its"
Valentine
51
"O what can ail thee"
La Belle
52
"They say you're old and frail"
A child to his sick grandfather
53
"Let me be your..."
i wanna be yours
54
"And gossips come to ask for you..//
| And everybody looks so sad"
A child to his sick grandfather (polysyndeton)
55
"I see a lily on thy brow"
La belle
56
"The squirrels granary is full//
| And the harvest is done."
La Belle
57
"On thy cheek a fading rose"
La Belle
58
Fast withering too" (let motif)
La belle
59
"Her hair was long, her foot was light//
| Her eyes were wild"
La belle
60
"I set her on my pacing steed"
La belle
61
"elfin grot"
La Belle
62
"there i dreamed Ah! - woe betide! -
| The latest dream i ever dreamt"
La belle
63
"I saw their starved lips in the gloam"
La Belle
64
"On the cold hill side"
La Belle
65
"Alone and palely loitering"
La Belle
66
"Through the sedge is withered from the lake"
La Belle
67
12 quatrain ballad with ABCB rhyme scheme (traditional in ballad)
La Belle
68
3 sestets ABABCC rhyme scheme
A complaint/ One Flesh
69
4 quatrains with ABBA rhyme scheme
Neutral Tones
70
Irregular structure and no rhyme scheme
Valentine
71
first two stanzas are octetes with ABABCCDE rhyme scheme until stanza 3's irregular structure
i wanna be yours
72
One stanza (monologue) with ABABCDCD... rhyme scheme
Nettles
73
13 couplets most of which rhyme
The Manhunt
74
"You will to die and leave us then"
A child to his sick grandfather
75
"Ill lead you kindly by the hand"
A child to his sick grandfather
76
"Cunning greedy fox that stole
| By the dead of midnight through a hole"
A child to his sick grandfather
77
"You love a story, Dad?"
A child to his sick grandfather
78
"Of men all clad in coats of mail,
| With glittering swords - you nod, I think?"
A child to his sick grandfather
79
"Down your bosom sinks your head -
| You do not hear me, Dad"
A child to his sick grandfather
80
"Let me be your ford cortina,
| i will never rust"
i wanna be yours
81
"You call the shots" (antipode)
i wanna be yours
82
"let me be your rain coat,
| for those frequent rainy days"
i wanna be yours
83
"let me be the electric heater,
| you get cld without"
i wanna be yours
84
"with deep devotion
deep as the deep
atlantic ocean"
i wanna be yours
85
"i dont wanna be hers"
i wanna be yours
86
8 sestets with AABBCC rhyme scheme
A child to his sick grandfather
