Poetry anthology quotes Flashcards
Part 3 - eftp quotes
‘Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud’
‘The distant hills…. sent An alien sound/ of melancholy, not unnoticed’
‘And in the west the orange sky of evening died away’
a wife in London - points and quotes
- iambic tetrameter
- 2 named and numbered parts - the tragedy and the irony
- 5 stanzas
- his hand whom the worm now knows
- penned in highest feather of his hoped return
- in the far south land
- street lamp glimmers cold
key quotes in manhunt
- parachute silk of punctured lung
- ‘only then’ and ‘then’ - anaphora
- unexplored mine
- damaged porcelain collar bone
Death of a Naturalist structure and quotes?
- free verse and enjambment - flows
- 2 stanzas - 1st is childhood innocence and 2nd is death of innocence
- lots of references to senses and animals: 1- bubbles gargled, huge sods , warm thick slobber 2- bass chorus, gross bellies frogs, blunt heads farting
- innocence - talks about tadpoles and mammy frogs in p1
- discovery - talks about the spawn dragging him in and being chased and told off by frogs
Quotes from to autumn
Stanza 1
‘Season of Mists and mellow fruitfulness’
‘To set budding more, and still more’
‘Fill all fruit with ripeness to the core’
Quotes from to autumn
Stanza 2
‘Thee sitting careless on a granary floor’ (Talking about leaving his work)
‘Drows’d with the fume of poppies’ like a drug
‘Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours’ talking about things coming to an end
Quotes from to autumn
Stanza 3
‘Where are the songs of spring? At where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too’
‘ full grown lambs loud bleat… hedge cricket sing… the red breast whistles’
‘gathering swallows twitter in the skies’
Mametz wood quotes against war
‘The wasted young, turning up under their plough blades’
‘They were told to walk, not to run’
‘Their jaws, those that have them, dropped open’
‘Twenty men buried in one grave’
Mametz wood quotes about machinery and nature taking over
‘All mimicked now in flint’
‘Earth stands sentinel’
‘Boots that outlasted them’
Mametz wood quotes about frailty and bones
‘Chit of a bone, the chins plate of a shoulder blade’
‘Broken birds egg of a skull’
‘Skeletons paused mid dance-macabre’ -acknowledgement of all the people who died in the plague
‘The notes they had sung had only now slipped from their absent tongues’
Quotes from part 1 of dulce et decorum est
‘Like old beggars… coughing like hags,’ dehumanising
‘Men marched asleep… all went lame;all blind;’
‘Deaf to… gas shells dropping behind’
Quotes from part 2 of dulce et decorum est
‘Gas! GAS! Quick, boys’
‘An Ecstasy of fumbling’
‘As under a green sea, I saw him drowning’
‘He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning’
Quotes from part 3 of dulce et decorum est
‘White eyes writhing, his hanging face, (like a devils sock of sin)’
‘Blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs’
‘Vile incurable sores on innocent tongues’
‘You would not tell with such high zest /to children/ The old lie : Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori’
Manhunt - delicate/gentle words
‘Handle ans hold’
‘Finger ans thumb’
‘Mind and attend’
‘Foetus of metal beneath his chest’
‘After passionate nights ans intimate days’
Quotes of hawk roosting
- i hold creation in my foot, the earths face for my inspection - very egotistical
- the allotment of death
- is in control -( ‘no arguments assert my right’) and ‘I am going to keep things like this’!
- ‘I kill where I please because it is all mine’
‘My manners are tearing off heads’
