Patrick Kavanagh Quotes Flashcards
reference to his operations and recovery from stomach cancer:
“As a poet, I was born in or about 1955, the place of my birth being the banks of the Grand Canal”
the secrets of the countryside:
“a footfall tapping secrecies of stone”
Kavanagh sees himself as monarch of this rural kingdom which surrounds him of:
”banks and stones and every blooming thing”
frost-covered potato pits, cattle tracks and:
“a green stone lying sideways in a ditch”
every day sight:
“any common sight”
ordinary, everyday sights “any common sight” and the sounds of life, seeing them as special and wondrous:
“How wonderful that was, how wonderful!”
the music from: _______ is described as _______
“the paling post” , “magical”
playing in the hay shed was like heaven itself:
“The light between the ricks of hay and straw/ Was a hole in Heaven’s gable”
the sounds of the countryside in winter:
“A water-hen screeched in the bog, /Mass-going feet crunched the wafer-ice on the potholes”
The beauty of the frosty countryside in the early morning is captured expertly in a lovely visual image:
“The winking glitter of a frosty dawn”
obvious biblical connotations:
“Clay is the word and clay is the flesh”
Maguire sacrificing a wife for his farm:
“lost in the passion that never needs a wife”
compares the potato gatherers to:
“mechanised scarecrows”
the natural world is portrayed in a grim manner:
“Here crows gabble over worms and frogs”
For Kavanagh, there is no _________ to be found in ________
“light of the imagination”, “these wet clods”
the men standing in the field ______
“shivering”
Maguires body will be________________ when he dies
“ spread in the bottom of a ditch under two coulters crossed in Christ’s name”
Maguire is impaled by the earth and religion:
“O the grip, O the grip of irregular fields! No man escapes”
autumnal decay:
“coltsfoot leaves”
the “coltfoot leaves” are:
“holed with rust”
falling rain and:
“a yellow sun”
the “yellow sun” reflects the:
“the poignant light in puddles shaped by hooves”
evaluating Maguires life:
“Be easy October. No cackle hen, horse neigh, tree sough, duck quack”
childlike language:
“silly” and “greeny”
