Litrature Paper 2- Poetry Flashcards
What quotes from ‘Follower’ present the parent’s portrayal?
‘An expert.’
‘His shoulders globed like a full sail strung’
‘All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow…’
‘Narrowed and angled at the ground, Mapping the furrow exactly.’
‘The horses strained at his clicking tongue.’
What quotes from ‘Follower’ portray parent-child relationships?
‘His shoulders globed like a full sail strung’
‘It is my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away’
‘All I ever did was follow In his broad shadow…’
‘Yapping’
What quotes from ‘Before You Were Mine’ portray memories?
‘I remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics,’
‘clear as scent’
‘I’m ten years away’, ‘I’m not here yet’, ‘The decade ahead.’
What quotes from ‘Before You Were Mine’ present the parent’s portrayal?
‘Marilyn’ ‘the fizzy, movie tomorrows’ ‘stamping stars’ ‘sparkle, waltz and laugh’ ‘whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?’
What quotes from ‘Mother, Any Distance’ portray parent-child relationships?
‘Anchor. Kite’
‘your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch…’
‘any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands’
‘I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly’
‘unreeling years between us’
What quotes from ‘Mother, Any Distance’ portray tension?
‘your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch…’
‘then leaving up the stairs,’
‘to breaking point, where something has to give;’
What quotes from Eden Rock portray memories?
- ‘an old H.P. sauce bottle,’
- ‘in the same suit’
- ‘his terrier Jack still two years old’
What quotes from Climbing My Grandfather portray parent-child relationships?
- ‘his finger is smooth and thick like warm ice.’
- ‘to stare into his brown eyes, watch a pupil slowly open and close.’
- ‘trying to get a grip’ to ‘discover’ to ‘knowing’
- ‘knowing the slow pulse of his good heart.’
What quotes from Eden rock portray parent-child relationships?
- ‘sky whitens as if lit up by three suns.’
- ‘ Crossing is not as hard as you think’.
- Half rhyme= gentle, natural rhythm
- Regular structure= steady relationship
- ‘takes on the light’
What quotes from Walking Away portray memories?
- ‘It is eighteen years ago,’
- ‘Gnaws at my mind still.’
- ‘How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go.’
What quotes from Walking Away portray parent-child relationships?
- ‘like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit,’
- ‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,’
- ‘How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.’
What quotes from Follower portray tension?
‘Behind me, and will not go away.’
‘Tripping, falling, Yapping always.’
Half rhyme- ‘plough’, ‘furrow’
What quotes from Before You Were Mine portray tension?
‘Now your ghost clatters towards me’
‘The thought of me doesn’t occur’
