Love & Relationships Poetry Quotes 2️⃣✅ Flashcards
What themes does Walking away relate to?
- distance
- family
- nature
What are 4 key quotes for Walking away?
‘like a satelite // wrenched from it’s orbit, go drifiting away’
‘the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free // into the wilderness’
‘like a winged seed loosened from it’s parent stem’
‘love is proved in the letting go’
‘like a satelite // ________________, go __________________’
POEM:
‘like a satelite // wrenched from it’s orbit, go drifiting away’
WALKING AWAY
‘the pathos of a ____-fledged________________ // into _______________’
POEM:
‘the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free // into the wilderness’
WALKING AWAY
‘like a winged ________________________________________’
POEM:
‘like a winged seed loosened from it’s parent stem’
WALKING AWAY
‘love is proved _________________’
POEM:
‘love is proved in the letting go’
WALKING AWAY
What themes does Mother, any distance relate do?
- distance
- family
What are 4 key quotes for Mother, any distance?
‘requires a second pair of hands’
‘span’ ‘acres’ ‘praries’
‘you at the zero end, me with the spool of tape’
‘Anchor. Kite.’
‘requires a ____________________ hands’
POEM:
‘requires a second pair of hands’
MOTHER, ANY DISTANCE
‘sp____’ ‘acr____’ ‘pra____’
POEM:
‘span’ ‘acres’ ‘praries’
MOTHER, ANY DISTANCE
‘you at the ________, me with __________________’
POEM:
‘you at the zero end, me with the spool of tape’
MOTHER, ANY DISTANCE
‘Anc_____. _____.’
POEM:
‘Anchor. Kite.’
MOTHER, ANY DISTANCE
What themes does Eden rock relate to?
- loss
- distance
- family
What are 4 key quotes for Eden rock?
‘her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light’
‘the same three plates, the tin cups painted blue’
‘Eden rock’
‘crossing is not as hard as you might think’
‘her hair, the ________________, takes on __________’
POEM:
‘her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light’
EDEN ROCK
‘the same three ________, the tin __________________’
POEM:
‘the same three plates, the tin cups painted blue’
EDEN ROCK
‘Eden ________’
POEM:
‘Eden rock’
EDEN ROCK
‘Crossing is not as _______________________’
POEM:
‘Crossing is not as hard as you might think’
EDEN ROCK
What themes does Sonnet 29 relate to?
- Romance
- Nature
- Distance
What are 4 quotes for Sonnet 29?
‘as wild vines about a tree’
‘rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare’
‘O my palm tree’
‘my thoughts do twine and bud’
‘as wild ________ about ____________’
POEM:
‘as wild vines about a tree’
SONNET 29
‘rustle thy ________ and _____________________’
POEM:
‘rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare’
SONNET 29
‘O my ________________’
POEM:
‘O my palm tree’
SONNET 29
‘my thoughs do _________________’
POEM:
‘my thoughts do twine and bud’
SONNET 29
What themes does Winter swans relate to?
- Romance
- Nature
- Distance
What are 4 quotes for Winter swans?
‘the waterlogged earth// gulping for breath at out feet’
‘with a show of tipping in unison.// As if rolling weights down their bodies to their heads’
‘like boats righting through rough weather’
‘our hands, that had somehow// swum the distance between us’
‘the waterlogged ________// gulping ________________________________’
POEM:
‘the waterlogged earth// gulping for breath at out feet’
WINTER SWANS
‘with a show of____________________.// As if rolling ________________________________________’
POEM:
‘with a show of tipping in unison.// As if rolling weights down their bodies to their heads’
WINTER SWANS
‘like boats ____________________________’
POEM:
‘like boats righting through rough weather’
WINTER SWANS
‘our hands, that ________________// swum ____________________________’
POEM:
‘our hands, that had somehow// swum the distance between us’
WINTER SWANS
What themes does Neutral tones relate to?
- Loss
- Nature
- Romance
What are 3 quotes for Neutral tones?
‘they had fallen from ash and were grey’
‘and the sun was white, as though chidden of god’
‘the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’
‘they had fallen ________and_____________’
‘they had fallen from ash and were grey’
‘and the sun was ________, as ____________________________’
‘and the sun was white, as though chidden of god’
‘the smile on your ________ was _________________’
‘the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’
