No Road, Arrivals, Departures and Next, Please Flashcards

Larkin Revision

1
Q

Always too eager for the future, we/Pick up bad _________ of expectancy’ (Next, Please)

A

habits

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Always too eager for the futuure, we/Pick up bad habits of _____________’ (Next, Please)

A

expectancy

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3
Q

the tiny, clear ______________ armada of promises draw near’ (Next, Please)

A

sparkling

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4
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How slow they are! And how much time they waste/Refusing to make haste!//’Yet still they leave us holding wretched __________’ (Next, Please)

A

stalks

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5
Q

A huge and ___________ silence’ (Next, Please)

A

birdless

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6
Q

A huge and birdless _________’ (Next, Please)

A

silence

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7
Q

Arrivals, Departures uses the image of a travelling salesman arriving on the ‘morning shore’ to represent the difficulty of c_____________

A

choice

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8
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‘His advent ___________ to the morning shore’ (Arrivals, Departures)

A

blurted

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9
Q

‘we barely recalled from __________’ (Arrivals, Departures)

A

sleep

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10
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‘Come and choose __________, they cry, come and choose ________’ (Arrivals, Departures)

A

wrong

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11
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‘Calling the traveller now, the _____________ bound’ (Arrivals, Departures)

A

outward

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12
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‘time’s __________ agents loose’ (No Road)

A

eroding

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13
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‘To watch that world come up like a cold _________’ (No Road)

A

sun

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