Poetry Anthology Key Quotes Flashcards
1
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Name all the quotes from the Manhunt
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- ‘the frozen river which ran through his face’
- ‘the blown hinge’
- ‘sweating, unexploded mine’
- ‘fractured rudder of shoulder blade’
- ‘feel the hurt of his grazed heart’
- ‘the foetus of metal underneath his chest’
- ‘then, and only then, did I come close’
2
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Name all the quotes from Sonnet 43
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- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- depth breadth and height my soul can reach
- I love thee with the love I seemed to lose with my lost Saints
- I love thee with the breath/ Smiles, tears of all my life!
- I shall but love thee better after death
3
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Name all the quotes from Living Space
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- there are just not enough straight lines
- beams balance crookedly on supports
- nails clutch at open seams
- fragile curves of white
- the whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous
- bright, thin walls of faith
4
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Name all the quotes from As Imperceptibly as Grief
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- As Imperceptibly as Grief
- Summer lapsed away
- Quiteness distilled
- twilight long begun
- morning foreign shone
- summer made her light escape
5
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Name some of the key quotes in Cozy Apologia
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- I could pick anything and think of you
- this lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue my pen exudes
- chain mail glinting to set me free
- worthless boys
- were as thin as licorice and as chewy, sweet with a dark and hollow centre
- you’re bunkered in your aerie, I’m perched in mine
- we’re content, but we fall short of the divine
- when has the ordinary ever been news?
- I fill this stolen time with you
6
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Name some of the key quotes in Valentine
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- Not a red rose or a satin heart
- I give you an onion
- moon wrapped in brown paper
- a wobbling photo of grief
- i am trying to be truthful
- possesive and faithful
- lethal
- cling to your fingers, cling to your knife
7
Q
What are the key quotes in a Wife in London?
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- The tragedy
- the irony
- webby fold on fold
- street lamp glimmers cold
- flashed news is in her hand
- he - has fallen - in the far south land
- fog hangs thicker
- firelight flickers
- his hand, whom now the worm knows
- penned in the highest feather
- of a new love they would learn
8
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Name some key quotes from the Death of a Naturalist
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- All year, the flax dam festered in the heart of the townland
- punishing sun
- best of all was the warm, thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water
- yellow in the sun and brown in the rain
- angry frogs invaded
- poised like mud grenades
- the great slime kings were gathered there for vengeance
- if i dipped my hand, the spawn would clutch it
9
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Name some key quotes from Hawk Roosting
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- I sit on top of the wood
- hooked head and hooked feet
- face upward for my inspection
- now I hold creation in my foot
- I kill where I please because it is all mine
- I am going to keep going like this
10
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Name some key quotes from To Autumn
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- swell the gourds and plump the hazel shells
- seasons of mist and fruitfulness!
- Until they think warm days will never cease
- o’erbrimmed their clammy shells
- wachest the last oozings hours by hours
- thou hast thy music too
- full grown lambs loud bleat
- gathering swallows twitter
11
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Name some key quotes in Afternoons
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- summer is fading
- young mothers assemble
- setting free their children
- our wedding, lying near the television
- their beauty has thickened
12
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Name some key quotes in DEDE
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- the old lie, Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori
- bent double like old beggars
- gas shells dropping softly behind
- gas GAS
- As under a green sea, I saw him drowning
- he plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning
- like a devil’s sick of sin
13
Q
What are the key quotes in Ozymandias?
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- I met a traveller from an antique land
- two vast and trunkless legs of stone
- sneer of cold command
- tell that its sculptor well those passions read
- hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
- the lone and level sands stretch far away
14
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What are the key quotes in Mametz Wood?
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- the wasted young
- a chit of bone
- broken bird’s egg of a skull
- were told to walk not to run
- nesting machine guns
- twenty men buried in one long grave
- mid dance macabre
- with this unearthing slipped from their absent tongues
15
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Name some key quotes from the Prelude
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- in the frosty season when the sun was set
- time of rapture, clear and loud
- proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse
- pack loud bellowing and the hunted hare
- leafless trees, every icy crag
- the orange sky of the evening died away
