Memory Flashcards
Character - The Hollow Men
‘We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men’
‘Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star’
‘For thine is
Life is
For thine is the’
Character - In the waiting-room
‘On a morning day sick as the day of doom’
‘But the words of the child in the squalid room
Had spread a glory through the growing gloom.’
Character - A Game of Chess
'’Do you know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you
Remember nothing?’
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.’
‘But if Albert makes off, it won’t be for lack of telling,
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique’
Character - The Haunter
‘Hover and hover a few feet from him’
‘Never he sees my faithful phantom
Though he speaks thereto.’
‘Tell him a faithful one is doing
All that love can do
Still that his path may be worth pursuing.
And to bring peace thereto.’
Character - Prufrock
‘Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky,
Like a patient etherised upon a table’
‘We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
With sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us and we drown.’
Character - The Voice
‘Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me’
‘Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward,
And the woman calling.’
Memory - Burial of the Dead
‘Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free’
‘Winter kept us warm. Covering
Earth in forgetful snow […]’
Memory - the Self-Unseeing
‘Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day’
‘Everything glowed with a gleam,
Yet we were looking away!’
Memory - Portrait of a Lady
‘Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands’ and then ‘you let it flow’
‘Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow
Recall my buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful after all’
‘Now that we talk of dying -
And should I have the right to smile?’
Memory - Your Last Drive
‘And somehow the borough light ahead
That lit your face - all undiscerned
To be in a week the fact of the dead’
‘Yet abides the fact, indeed, the same -
You are past love, praise, indifference, blame.’
Memory - Rhapsody of a Windy Night
‘Midnight shakes memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium’
‘Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life
The last twist of the knife.’
Memory - At Castle Botorel
‘It filled but a minute. But was there ever
A time of such quality, since or before
In that hill’s story’
‘For my sand is sinking
And I shall travers old love’s domain
Never again.’
Loss of reality - Burial of the Dead
‘April is the cruellest month, Breeding
Lilacs from the dead land. Mixing
Memory and desire’
‘Unreal city
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many.’
Loss of reality - the Voice
‘Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me’
‘Thus I; faltering forward,
Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from forward,
And the woman calling.’
Loss of faith - The Hollow Men
‘We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men’
‘Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star’
‘For thine is
Life is
For thine is the’
