Poetry quotes

Question 1

WHGML: “…speech…”

Answer 1

“…growing stranger/s/ on the thresholds of ice, rock, fire…” (S2+3)

Question 2

MWGML: “It is not…”

Answer 2

“…for my children I walk/ on earth in the light of the living./ It is for you, for the wild/ daughters becoming women…” (Entire 2nd s)

Question 3

MWGML “I think of…”

Answer 3

“…women bearing women.” (S1)

Question 4

WTC: “all time…”

Answer 4

“…lay rolled in me…” (S2)

Question 5

WTC: “I am the…”

Answer 5

“…earth, I am the root,/ I am the stem that fed the fruit,/ the link that joins you to the night.” (S4)

Question 6

WTC: “there Swam…”

Answer 6

“…the Sliding continentS.” (S2)

Question 7

SS: “She hushes them. A…”

Answer 7

”.. pot/ boils over. As she rushes to the stove”

Question 8

SS: “Zest and…”

Answer 8

“…love drain out with soapy water as she scours/ the crusted milk.”

Question 9

SS: “Once she played..”

Answer 9

“…for Rubenstein, who yawned.”

Question 10

SS: “The children caper/…”

Answer 10

“…round a sprung mousetrap where a mouse lies dead./ When the sOft cOrpse wOnt mOve they seem afraid.”

Question 11

SS: “featuring:…”

Answer 11

“…tasty dishes from stale bread.”

Question 12

HS: “One constant in…”

Answer 12

“…a world of variables/-a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables.” (S1)

Question 13

HS: “Lost in…”

Answer 13

“…a green confusion.” (S3)

Question 14

HS: “He stands there,…”

Answer 14

“…lost in green/ confusion, smelling the smoke of somebody’s rubbish/ burning, hearing vaguely the clatter of a dish/ in a sink that could be his…” (s4)

Question 15

HS: “offering up instead…”

Answer 15

“…not much but as much as any man can offer” (S5)

Question 16

EWSMAK: “one…, one…along with”

Answer 16

“…economy-size Mum, and one Anthony Squires-Coolstream-Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids straight off the Junior Department rack.” (s2)

Question 17

EWSMAK: “WALK…”

Answer 17

“DON’T RUN. TURN LEFT. NO BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER.” (S3)

Question 18

EWSMAK: “Littered with…”

Answer 18

“…stars no one had got around to fixing up yet..” (4)

Question 19

EWSMAK: “Pretty soon he…”

Answer 19

“…was old enough to be/ realistic like every other godless/ money-hungry back-stabbing miserable/ so-and-so.” (5)

Question 20

EWSMAK: “…you know…”

Answer 20

“…what I mean?” -> searching for meaning (6)

Question 21

EWSMAK: “probity &…”

Answer 21

“sons, morticians” (8)

Question 22

EWSMAK: “even adding…”

“No B…”

Answer 22

“…a/ healthy tan he never had” (8)

“…obby Dazzlers here”

Question 23

MHQPEG: “Dust without…”

Answer 23

“dimension SWALLOWS/ rain and wind and rioting sun” (2)

Question 24

MHQPEG: “The last of…”

Answer 24

“…life: a sack of scars/ trapped in death’s whirlpool…” (2)

Question 25

MHQPEG: "Galaxies/..."

Answer 25

"...on fire with irony collide." (3)

Question 26

MHQPEG: "gone..."

Answer 26

"...are gone." (3)

Question 27

D: "And she'll go out..."

Answer 27

"...to the vegetable patch and pick/ all the green tomatoes from the vines"

Question 28

D: "And notice how the..."

Answer 28

"...oldest girl is close to tears/ because she was happy here, and how the youngest girl is beaming because she/ wasn't."

Question 29

D "The bottling..."

Answer 29

"...set she never unpacked from Grovedale."

Question 30

D: "And when the loaded..."

Answer 30

"...UTE bumps down the drive/ past the black-berry canes and their last shrivelled fruit,/ she'll only remember how, when they came/ here,/ she held out her hands bright with berries... and said:/ 'make a wish, tom, make a wish.'"

Question 31

RM: "The spendthrift..."

Answer 31

"...disinherited and graceless,/ accepted his pittance with an easy air" (1)

Question 32

RM: "That pale..."

Answer 32

"...stalk of a wench at the county ball/ sunk back forgotten black Mary's eyes" (3)

Question 33

RM: "Pheasant-shooting..." (contrast)

Answer 33

"...and the aunts in the close" vs "tramping the backtracks in the summer haze" (1)

Question 34

RM: "let a v.."

Answer 34

"...ague pit blur the formal roses." (4)

Question 35

RM: "Sparse swinging..."

Answer 35

"...shadow of trees no loner foreign/ silted the memory of a greener climate." (2)

Question 36

WTM: "This is the blood's..."

Answer 36

"...wild three that grows/ the intricate and folded rose." (3) METAPHOR

Question 37

WTM: "This is the m..."

Answer 37

"...aker and the made." (4) METAPHOR

Question 38

WTM: "Oh hold..."

Answer 38

"...me, for I am afraid." (4)

Question 39

H&W: "he old jokes...."

Answer 39

"...aren't as funny as they were,/ Nor the old jokers."

Question 40

H&W: "I must be getting..."

Answer 40

"...old or something, Ann!"

Question 41

H&W: "Incipient..."

Answer 41

"...baldness being one more tree/ notched on the bush-track to eternity."

Question 42

H&W: "Half-..."

Answer 42

"...mown lawn/ not knowing whether to rejoice or mourn."

Question 43

TV: "'it will soon..."

Answer 43

"...be night you goose!'" (2)

Question 44

TV: "I kneel..."

Answer 44

"...to pick frail melancholy flowers among/ ashes and loam." (1)

Question 45

TV: "And carried me..."

Answer 45

"..downstairs to see/ spring violets in their loamy bed./ Hungry an cross, I would not hold/ their sweetness, or be comforted..." (3)

Question 46

TV: "Years..."

Answer 46

"...cannot move/ nor death's disorienting scale/ distort those lamplit presences." (5)

Question 47

THH: "How long ago..."

Answer 47

"...she planted the hawthorn hedge-/ she forgets how long ago." (1)

Question 48

THH: "Let him..."

Answer 48

"...stare/ no one is here." (2)

Question 49

THH: "Only the mad..."

Answer 49

"...old girl from the hut on the hill,/ unkempt as an old tree." SIMILE (3)

Question 50

THH: "She has forgotten..." | "It was..."

Answer 50

"...when she planted the hawthorn hedge..." | "...long ago." (5)

Question 51

THH: "The hawthorn..."

Answer 51

"...hedge took root, grew wild and high/ to hide behind." (6)