poems Flashcards
name a quote from war photographer stanza one
“spools of suffering” “ordered rows” “all flesh is grass”
name a quote from war photographer stanza two
“did not tremble” “he has a job to do”
name a quote from war photographer stanza three
“half-formed ghost”
name a quote from war photographer stanza four
“hundred agonies” “will pick out five or six”
name a quote from originally stanza one
“we came from out own country” “blind”
name a quote from originally stanza two
“all childhood is an emigration” “big boys eating worms and shouting words you don’t understand”
name a quote from originally stanza three
“swallow a slug” “originally?”
name a quote from the way my mother speaks stanza one
“I say her phrases to myself/in my head” “under the shallows of my breath”
name a quote from the way my mother speaks stanza two
“the train this slow evening/goes down England”
name a quote from the way my mother speaks stanza three
“I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks”
name a quote from Mrs Tischler’s class stanza one
“the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust.” “A window opened with a long pole”
name a quote from Mrs Tischler’s class stanza two
“This was better than home.”
name a quote from Mrs Tischler’s class stanza three
“Over the Easter term, the inky tadpoles changed/ from commas into exclamation marks.”
name a quote from Mrs Tischler’s class stanza four
“That feverish July, the air tasted of electricity.”
