Literature Paper 2 quotes Flashcards
Tissue: sunlight
Maps too. He sun shines through their border lines, the marks that rivers make, roads, rail tracks, mountain folds
Tissue: receipt
Fine slips from grocery shops […] might fly our life like paper kites
Poppies
A single dove flew from the pear tree
War photographer: attitude
They do not care
War photographer: places
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.
Oxymandias: start
I met a traveler
Oxymandias: statue/ artist
The hand that mocked them
London: streets
Charter’d
Charter’d
London: attitudes
In every blackening church […] in every […] in every […] mind-forged manacles
The prelude: height
Utmost boundary
The prelude: realisation
When […] a huge peak […] upreared it’s head
The last duchess: mythology
Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse
The last duchess: superiority
Will’t please you sit […] will’t please you rise
The charge of the light brigade: mistake
Wondered
The charge of the light brigade:duty
Theirs […] theirs […] theirs but to do and die
The emigreé: personification
Dancing
Sick
Lie down with me
The emigreé: light
Sunlight
Exposure: personification
Pale flakes with fingering strength
Exposure: repetition
But nothing happens
Storm on the island: oxymoron
Exploding comfortably
Storm on the island: iambic pentameter
We are prepared we build out houses squat
Kamikaze: last line
He must have wondered which had been a better way to die
Kamikaze: nature
A tune, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
Bayonet charge: first line
Suddenly he awoke and he was running - raw, in raw- seamed hot khaki
Remains: first line
On another occasion we got sent out to tackle looters”
Bayonet charge: no escape
Listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running
Remains: no escape
The drinks and drugs won’t flush him out
Bayonet charge: psychological effects
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera. Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
Remains: psychological effects
He’s here in my head when I close my eyes
Bayonet charge: immediate
His terrors touchy dynamite
Remains: long lasting
Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not.
TDOT- corruption of childhood innocence
“I’m going[…] dunno bout you, but I’m going”
“She stared at the lace cloth, the fluted China cup “I’ll go too””
TDOT- warping of childhood memories and realisation of true darkness
“She wouldn’t go in there for a million dollars, not even in the bright day like now”
“One moment you were walking in the long grass, with the sun on your hair […] then you glimpsed darkness, and inescapable darkness”
IMOTBR- Death, and the idea of loosing familiarity and comfort
“Found herself crying too”
“The pain of parting traps us in our silent world”
IMOTBR- Being segregated against
“Invisibility of the back row”
“Enrolled in the hottest, baddest stream in the first year”
Th charge of the light brigade
Tennyson
The emigreé
Rumens
Exposure
Owen
Storm on the island
Heaney
Tissue
Dharker
Checking out me history
Agard
Oxymandias
Shelley
London
Blake
Extract from: the prelude
Wordsworth
The last duchess
Browning
Kamikaze
Garland
Poppies
Weir
War photographer
Duffy
