Poetry Key Quotes

Question 1

Hawk Roosting -Ted Hughes
-Rehearse
-Creation
-Keep

Answer 1

-in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat
-now I hold creation in my foot
-I am going to keep things like this

Question 2

Ozymandias -Percy
-Traveller
-Mighty
-Remains

Answer 2

-I met a traveller from and antique land
-look on my works, ye mighty and despair
-nothing beside remains

Question 3

Living space- Imtiaz
-Flat
-Eggs
-Slanted

Answer 3

-nothing is flat or parallel
-eggs in a wire basket
-hung out of the dark edge of a slanted universe

Question 4

A wife in London -Thomas Hardy
-Vapour
-Fallen
-Worm

Answer 4

-she sits in the tawny vapour
-he - has fallen - in the far south land
-his hand, whom the worm now knows

Question 5

Cozy Apologia -Rita Dove
-Glinting
-Teenage
-Content

Answer 5

-chainmail glinting to set me free
-teenage crushes on worthless boys whose only talent was to kiss you senseless
-we’re content, but fall short of the divine

Question 6

As Imperceptibly as Grief -Emily Dickinson
-Summer
-Twilight
-Escape

Answer 6

-the summer lapsed away
-as twilight long begun
-our summer made her light escape into the beautiful

Question 7

The Manhunt -Simon Armitage
-Frozen
-Mine
-Close

Answer 7

-only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face
-sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind
-then and only then did I come close