Midterm Quotes Flashcards
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
“Harlem”
Langston Hughes
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
Like a syrupy sweet?
“Tell-Tale Heart”
Edgar Allan Poe
“And every morning I went to his room, and with a warm, friendly voice I asked him how he had slept. He could not guess that every night, just at twelve, I looked in at him as he slept.”
“In a Station of the Metro”
Ezra Pound
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
“The Waste Land”
T.S. Elliot
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
“Tell-Tale Heart “
Edgar Allan Poe
“How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”
“La Llorona, Crying Lady of the Creekbeds, 483 years Old, and Aging”
Carmen Tafolla
They took away her children
The welfare office came and stole away her children
Because she had no right, they said,
To be a single parent, non-model American family
Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!”
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
“I’m nearly used to it,” said Adam, who was from Texas. “We’ve been told time and again how all the he-manly regular army men wear them. It’s the horrors of war,” he said; “are we downhearted? I’ll say we are.”
“Harlem”
Langston Hughes
“What happens to a dream deferred?”
“How Mr. Rabbit was too Smart for Mr. Fox”
Joel Chandler Harris
“Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a ‘quintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby? En who stuck you up dar whar you iz? Nobody in de roun’ worril. You des tuck en jam yo’se’f on dat Tar-Baby wid-out waitin’ fer enny invite”
“The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Mourning Dove
“The name Grizzly Bear was taken at dawn,” the Spirit Chief answered.
“The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
T.S Elliot
“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”
“The Waste Land”
T.S Elliot
“Twit twit twit
Jug jug jug jug jug jug
So rudely forc’d.
Tereu”
The Wife of His Youth
Charles Chesnutt
‘““No, indeed, suh,” she replied, “Sam ain’ dat kin’ er man. He wuz good ter me, Sawuz, but he wuzn’ much good ter nobody e’se, fer he wuz one er de triflin’es’ han’s on de plantation. I ‘spec’s ter haf ter suppo’t ‘im w’en I fin’ ‘im, fer he nebber would work ‘less’n he had ter. But den he wuz free, an’ he didn’ git no pay fer his work, an’ I don’ blame ‘im much”
