No Road, Arrivals, Departures and Next, Please Flashcards
Larkin Revision
Always too eager for the future, we/Pick up bad _________ of expectancy’ (Next, Please)
habits
Always too eager for the futuure, we/Pick up bad habits of _____________’ (Next, Please)
expectancy
the tiny, clear ______________ armada of promises draw near’ (Next, Please)
sparkling
How slow they are! And how much time they waste/Refusing to make haste!//’Yet still they leave us holding wretched __________’ (Next, Please)
stalks
A huge and ___________ silence’ (Next, Please)
birdless
A huge and birdless _________’ (Next, Please)
silence
Arrivals, Departures uses the image of a travelling salesman arriving on the ‘morning shore’ to represent the difficulty of c_____________
choice
‘His advent ___________ to the morning shore’ (Arrivals, Departures)
blurted
‘we barely recalled from __________’ (Arrivals, Departures)
sleep
‘Come and choose __________, they cry, come and choose ________’ (Arrivals, Departures)
wrong
‘Calling the traveller now, the _____________ bound’ (Arrivals, Departures)
outward
‘time’s __________ agents loose’ (No Road)
eroding
‘To watch that world come up like a cold _________’ (No Road)
sun