Poetry - comparisons for poems that HAVEN'T came up Flashcards
Comparison for: The Soldier
“All went lame; all blind;
drunk with fatigue” Dulce et Decorum Est
Comparison for: The Soldier
“And flound’ring round
like a man in fire” Dulce et Decorum Est
Comparison for: The Soldier
“He plunges at me,
guttering, choking, drowning” Dulce et Decorum Est
Comparison for: The Soldier
“Devil’s sick
of sin” Dulce et Decorum Est
Comparison for: She Walks In Beauty
“Like the careful
undressing of love” Valentine
Comparison for: She Walks In Beauty
“A wobbling
photo of grief” Valentine
Comparison for: She Walks In Beauty
“Its fierce kiss will
stay on your lips” Valentine
comparison for: She Walks In Beauty
“Cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife” Valentine
Comparison for: Living Space
“Marks of weakness,
marks of woe” London
Comparison for: Living Space
“Mind-forg’d
manacles I hear” London
Comparison for: Living Space
“Black’ning church
appalls” London
Comparison for: Living Space
“Plagues the
Marriage hearse” London
Comparison for: As Imperceptibly as Grief
“At swing and sandpit
setting free their children” Afternoons
Comparison for: As Imperceptibly as Grief
“Lying near
the television” Afternoons
Comparison for: As Imperceptibly as Grief
“(But the lovers
are all in school)” Afternoons
Comparison for: As Imperceptibly as Grief
“Something is pushing them
to the side of their own lives” Afternoons
Comparison for: Cozy Apologia
“How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways” Sonnet 43
Comparison for: Cozy Apologia
“For the ends of being
and ideal Grace” Sonnet 43
Comparison for: Cozy Apologia
“As they turn
from praise” Sonnet 43
Comparison for: Cozy Apologia
“I shall but love
thee better after death”
Comparison for: Valentine
“I could pick anything
and think of you” Cozy Apologia
Comparison for: Valentine
“One eye smiling, the other
firm upon the enemy” Cozy Apologia
Comparison for: Valentine
“Today, a hurricane is
nudging up the coast” Cozy Apologia
Comparison for: Valentine
“I fill this
stolen time with you” Cozy Apologia
Comparison for: Death of a Naturalist
“The china plate of
a shoulder blade” Mametz Wood
Comparison for: Death of a Naturalist
“Towards the wood
and its nesting machine guns” Mametz Wood
Comparison for: Death of a Naturalist
“Like a wound working a
foreign body the surface of the skin” Mametz Wood
Comparison for: Death of a Naturalist
“A broken mosaic
linked arm-in-arm” Mametz Wood
Comparison for: Hawk Roosting
“Two vast and trunkless
legs of stone” Ozymandias
Comparison for: Hawk Roosting
“And wrinkled lip,
and sneer of cold command” Ozymandias
Comparison for: Hawk Roosting
“Look on my works,
ye mighty, and despair” Ozymandias
Comparison for: Hawk Roosting
“Nothing beside
remains” Ozymandias
Comparison for: Hawk Roosting
“The lone and level sands
stretch far away” Ozymandias
Comparison for: The Prelude
“Until they think
warm days will never cease” To Autumn
Comparison for: The Prelude
“Hours
by hours” To Autumn
Comparison for: The Prelude
“And gathering swallows
twitter in the sky” To Autumn
