poems Flashcards
give a personification about the clouds in WINTER SWANS
“the clouds had given their all”
give a personification for the earth in WINTER SWANS
“the waterlogged earth/ gulping for breath”
give a metaphor from WINTER SWANS
“icebergs of white feather”
give a simile from WINTER SWANS (boat)
“like boats righting in rough water”
an adjective from winter swans
“WATERLOGGED earth”
a simile from WALKING AWAY
“like a satellite/ wrenched from its orbit”
give a bird metaphor from WALKING AWAY
“half-fledged thing set free/ into a wilderness
what word is used as repetition in walking away
“path”
give a NATURAL simile from walking away
“like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”
give an an animalisitic and vicious verb from walking away
“gnaws”
give an alliteration from letters from yorkshire
“planting potatoes”
give a metaphor from letters from yorkshire
“his knuckles singing”
give a rhetorical question from letters from yorkshire
“is your life more real because you dig and sow?”
give 2 active verbs from letters from yorkshire
“breaking” and “clearing”
give a line from LFY that uses enjambment about seasons
“seeing the seasons/ turning”
a simile from NEUTRAL TONES
“the sun was white, as though chidden of God”
give a line that has 2 uses of alliteration in neutral tones
“a few leaves lay on the starving sod”
give 3 words that use game imagery neutral tones
“tedious” “played “lost”
give an oxymoron from neutral tones
“the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
give a bird simile from neutral tones
“like an ominous bird a-wing…”
give to adjectives from climbing my grandfather
“dusty” “cracked”
an oxymoron from CMG
“the skin of his finger is smooth and thick”
climbing imagery from CMG
“i rest for a while”
give a metaphor from CMG
“a smiling mouth to drink among teeth”
give a line that has double meaning from CMG
“watch a pupil”
give a line where he compares his granddad to the the top of a mountain in CMG
“(soft and white at this altitude)”
farmer’s bride, hunting imagery
“we chased her”
2 quotes that compares the woman to an animal in farmer’s bride
“flying like a hare”
“like a mouse”
a simile to show that she is shy in FB
“shy as a leveret”
a RQ from FB
“but what to me”
a list to show how he is losing control in FB
“her eyes, her hair, her hair”
a quote that uses pathetic fallacy in porthyria’s lover
“the sullen wind was soon awake”
the repetition of a word that shows he is saying exactly what happened before he killed her PL
“and”
repetition of a word to show he is obsessed with her physical feature in PL
“yellow hair”
repetition of 2 words to show he owns her in PL
“mine” “it”
an animal simile in PL
“as a shut bud that holds a bee”
repetiton of a word from singh song that shows unity
“vee share”
a metaphor from SS
“tiny eyes ov a gun/ and di tummy of a teddy”
a simile from SS
“like we rowing through putney”
a violent quote from WWTP
“TO SEVER FOR YEARS”
a quote that uses an AB rhyme scheme in WWTP
“when we two parted/ half broken-hearted.”
a RQ from WWTP
“why thou so dear?”
a metaphor from WWTP
“a knell in mine ear”
personification from love’s philosophy
“the fountains mingle with the river”
a metaphor from LP
“see the mountains kiss high heaven”
4 verbs from LP
“mingle, mix, clasp, kiss”
metaphor from sonnet 29 about thoughts
“my thoughts do twine and bud”
metaphor that shows she looks up to him in sonnet 29
“o, my palm tree”
erratic verbs in sonnet 29
“burst, shattered, everywhere”
a simile from sonnet 29
“about thee, as wild vines”
a simile from FB to show she is frightened
like a frightened fay
