Poetry Anthology P2 (35mins) QUOTES Flashcards
What are key quotes from Walking Away?
“Like a satellite/wrenched from its orbit”
“Selfhood begins with the walking away/and love is proved in the letting go”
“Nature’s give and take”
What are key quotes from Follower?
“His shoulders globed like a full sail strung”
“His eye/ Narrowed and angled at the ground/ mapping the furrow exactly”
“But today/ it is my father who keeps stumbling/ behind me, and will not go away”
What are key quotes from Before You Were Mine?
“Marylin.”
“That glamorous love lasts/
where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine”
“The decade ahead of my loud possessive yell”
What are the key quotes from Mother, any distance?
“Anchor. Kite.”
“Mother. Any distance greater than a single span/
requires another set of hands”
“I reach/
towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky/
to fall or fly”
What are the key quotes of Eden Rock?
“They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”
“The same three plates”
“Crossing is not as hard as you might think”
What are the key quotes from When we two parted?
“When we two parted /In silence and tears,”
“Why wert thou so dear?”
“Thy spirit deceive”
“How should I greet thee? - /With silence and tears.”
What are the key quotes from Porphyria’s lover?
“She shut the cold out and the storm”
“From pride, and vainer ties dissever, /And give herself to me forever”
“I found a thing to do”
“No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain”
“And yet God has not said a word!”
What are the key quotes of Neutral tones?
“the sun was white, as though chidden of God”
“Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove”
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
“Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,”
What are the key quotes of Love’s Philosophy?
“rivers”, “winds”, “Heaven”, “law divine” - natural law that things should mix and come together
“Nothing in the world is single” - lovers would be defying nature if they weren’t together
“Why not I with thine?” - rhetorical question at end of stanza, she would be defying nature if not with him (persuasive poem)
“sunlight clasps the earth” “moonbeams kiss the sea” - mixes the masculine and feminine elements
What are the key quotes from Sonnet 29?
“I think of thee!”
“my thoughts do twine and bud about thee, as wild vines, about a tree” - she is the vines, he is the strong tree, Victorian gender roles
“straggling green” - she considers herself as little importance without him
“I do not think of thee - I am too near thee!” - circular structure but modified, she would rather be with him than think of him
What are key quotes from Letters from Yorkshire?
“You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons\
turning, me with my heartful of headlines” - enjambment indicated the switch from him to her
“Is your life more real because you dig and sow?” - rhetorical question
“pouring air and light into an envelope” - brings a breath of freash air to the city
“our souls tap out messages across the icy miles” - writing connects them
What are key quotes from The Farmer’s Bride?
“we chased her, flying like a hare” … “all in a shiver and a scare” - hunting imagery, animal
“shy as a leveret, swift as he,”…“to her wild self. But what to me?” - he feels left out
“What’s Christmas-time without there be some other in the house than we!” - rhetorical question, suggests problems, he is lonely (wants children)
“the brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair” - repetition loosing control
What are key quotes from Winter Swans?
“The clouds had given their all\
two days of rain and then a break” - pathetic fallacy
“we skirted the lake, silent and apart” - avoidance, emotional time shown by punctuation
“like boats righting in rough weather.\
‘They mate for life’ you said” - direct speech, volta
“I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, swum the distance between us” … “like a pair of wings settling after flight”
What are the key quotes from Singh Song?
“my bride” repetition, focus on her creates a sense of pride
“hey Singh, ver yoo bin?” … “in di worst Indian shop\
on di whole Indian road” - so distracted by his wife
“vee stare past di half-price window signs\
at di beaches ov di UK in di brightey moon” - escapiam, moon is a symbol of love
“from di stool each night I say,\
Is priceless baby - “ - couplets highlight the closeness of the couple
What are the key quotes for Climbing my grandfather?
“scramble onto his trousers, pushing into the weave, trying to get a grip” - literally and metaphorically, desires to learn more about him
“the nails are splinterred and give good purchase” - the grandfather is hardworking
“climbing has its dangers” - could find out something he didn’t want to about his grandfather
“knowing the slow pulse of his good heart” - ending the poem with the emotional sense
