Poetry Flashcards
The Manhunt - Quotes
“after the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days”
“only then…”
care - “trace” “handle and hold” “mind and attend” “finger and thumb”
physical effects -“frozen river” “damaged porcelain”
mental effects - “fractured rudder” “sweating unexploded mine”
“every nerve in his body closed”
The Manhunt - Structure
consistent couplets - mimics consistency of Laura’s efforts, slow and steady
rhyme scheme is lost, mimicking the loss of a part of her husband, Laura will never get back
The Soldier - Quotes
“If I should die”
English superiority - “for ever England” “rich Earth a richer dust concealed”
Mother England - “dust whom England bore” “her flowers” “body of England” “blest by the suns of home”
English heaven - “gives back the thoughts” “her sights and sounds” “English heaven”
The Solider - structure
Sonnet - a love poem for England
Hawk Roosting - Quotes
“I sit in the top of the wood”
“no falsifying dream” “rehearse perfect kills and eat”
“convenience” “of advantage to me”
“for my inspection” “i hold creation in my foot”
“I kill where I please” “it is all mine” “allotment of death” “sun is behind me” “I am going to keep things like this”
Hawk Roosting structure
dramatic monologue, enjambment and causeura wherever, in control of narrative
equal stanza length, complete control
Ozymandias Quotes
“I met a traveller from an antique land” “vast and trunkless legs of stone” “a shatter visage”
“sneer of cold command” “lifeless things” “pedestal” “king of kings” “look on my work ye mighty and despair”
“colossal wreck” “decay” “lone and level sands stretch far away”
Ozymandias structure
rhyme scheme is unpredictable - mimics nature of power
no control over enjambment and caesura
London Quotes
“each chartered street” “chartered Thames” “every infants cry of fear” “mind forged manacles”
“blackning church appals” “blood, palace walls” “hapless solder” “youthful harlots curse”
London structure
4 stanzas equal length, rhyme scheme, cosistent - no freedom
Living space quotes
“not enough strahgt lines” “balance crookedly” “nails clutch” “leans dangerously towards Miraculous”
“squeezed a living space” “eggs… fragile curves of white”
“dared to place” “ hung out over a dark edge, slanted universe”
“bright thin walls of faith”
Living space structure
no rhyme scheme , unpredicatble, visual rep of slums, uncertainty in living
Sonnet 43 Quotes
boundless, infinite - “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” “depth breadth height” “my Soul can reach “ Grace”
enduring, steadfast - “level of everyday” “most quiet needs” “sun and candlelight”
Transformative power 0 “old griefschildhoods faith” “I seemed to lose” “ smile and tears” “love thee better after death”
sonnet 43 structure
love sonnet for husband she eloped with, aware of terminal illness, believes love can transcend this
A wife in London quotes
“tawny vapour”
“webby fold on fold”
“like a waning taper”
“flashed news “ “dazes to understands” “He-has fallen- in the far South Land”
“fog hangs thicker” “nears and goes” “hand the worm now knows” “pageful of hoped return”
