Poetry Flashcards
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Cry I can no more
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
wring - world right foot rock
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Now done darkness
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Lay wrestling with my God
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Petrarchan - classic obedience to conventions
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Dark some, devouring
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Biographical resonances
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Apostrophe - speaks directly to Carrion, adamant he will not give in, aggressive
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Slack - weak, untwist - bound for strength
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Second part of octave - criticizes God, “most weary” - superlative, exhausted
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Not choose not to be - autonomy “I can no more, I can”
Carrion Comfort - Hopkins
Not that he has stopped loving God, God has stopped loving him
LINK BETWEEN CARRION COMFORT AND THE FORSAKEN GARDEN
Religion
LINK BETWEEN CARRION COMFORT AND ULYSSES
New taste for life
Ulysses - Tennyson
Hungry heart
Ulysses - Tennyson
Drunk delight of battle
Ulysses - Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have met
Ulysses - Tennyson
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that I travelled world whose margin fades forever and for ever as I move
Ulysses - Tennyson
A bringer of new things
Ulysses - Tennyson
It is not too late to seek a newer world - ageism
Ulysses - Tennyson
Ithica, Telemachus - questionable judgement
Ulysses - Tennyson
Long sentences in beginning, bird, ennui
Ulysses - Tennyson
Feed off danger and admiration
Ulysses - Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield
Ulysses - Tennyson
Dramatic monologue - fatal flaw
LINK BETWEEN ULYSSES AND FORSAKEN GARDEN
Death closes all - no after life
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
The ghost of a garden fronts the sea
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
As the heart of a dead man the seed plots are dry - no renewal, death lies dead
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
What Love was ever as deep as a grave - death is more powerful
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
On e gaunt bleak blossom of scent less breath
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Death lies dead - link to death closes all
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Humbling high tides - we’re not immortal
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Love as deep as the sea as a rose must wither
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
He shall find no life but the sea-wind’s
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Sea and wind “remain” , things out of our control
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
The thorns he spares when the rose is taken - suggesting there is a value
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Plurality of meanings
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
World starts and ends same way
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Heart hand fast in heart - spares not even the strongest loves, reminder that we are not immortal, futility of life and love
The Forsaken Garden - Swinburne
Here change may come not till all change end - all change is for the worse
The forsaken garden - Swinburne
Thorns on Jesus head symbol of memories of kingdom of God
LINK BETWEEN THE FORSAKEN GARDEN AND THR GARDEN
… Garden
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall - weak upper class, fragile, pure breed
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Emotional anemia - indifferent, cold
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Unkillable infants of the very poor, they shall inherit the earth
The Garden - Ezra Pound
The end of breeding - pure bred, incest, now there are mutts, stronger
The Garden - Ezra Pound
And she is dying piece - meal
The Garden - Ezra Pound
She would like someone to speak to her and is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion - desperate loneliness
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Old woman - old society dying off
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Gradual clear shift of power to lower class
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Present tense - transfer happens now
The Garden - Ezra Pound
Victims of changing fortunes of history but also architects of downfall
LINK BETWEEN THE GARDEN AND THE SECOND COMING
Fears for the unknown other
The second coming - WB Yeats
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
The second coming - WB Yeats
The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity
The second coming - WB Yeats
Vast image
The second coming - WB Yeats
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
The second coming - WB Yeats
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born
The second coming - WB Yeats
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
The second coming - WB Yeats
Things fall apart
The second coming - WB Yeats
Rocking cradle
The second coming - WB Yeats
The darkness drops again - Jesus is the light, the truth and the way
LINK BETWEEN THE SECOND COMING AND THE WASTELAND
Jesus, loss of religion
The wasteland - TS Eliot
April is the cruelest month
The wasteland - TS Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust - no afterlife, no religious consolation
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Roots that clutch
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Living nor dead - empty lives
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Crowds of people walking round in a ring
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Each man fixed his eyes before his feet - no connection
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Strange synthetic perfumes
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Withered stumps of time - age rings, memories can’t be forgotten, rape victims
The wasteland - TS Eliot
I swear, I can’t bear to look at you - husbands, lack of love, focus on beauty and Bella donnas
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Hurry up please, it’s time - biological clock, pressure on women
The wasteland - TS Eliot
We who were living are now dying - religion, Jesus gives life, now there is no Jesus
The wasteland - TS Eliot
If there were on,y water amongst the rock
The wasteland - TS Eliot
By this and this only, we have existed - connections, unreal, synthetic cities
The wasteland - TS Eliot
Datta - give, dayadvham- sympathise, damyata- control
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