Poetry quotes Flashcards
WHGML: “…speech…”
“…growing stranger/s/ on the thresholds of ice, rock, fire…” (S2+3)
MWGML: “It is not…”
“…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)
MWGML “I think of…”
“…women bearing women.” (S1)
WTC: “all time…”
“…lay rolled in me…” (S2)
WTC: “I am the…”
“…earth, I am the root,/ I am the stem that fed the fruit,/ the link that joins you to the night.” (S4)
WTC: “there Swam…”
“…the Sliding continentS.” (S2)
SS: “She hushes them. A…”
”.. pot/ boils over. As she rushes to the stove”
SS: “Zest and…”
“…love drain out with soapy water as she scours/ the crusted milk.”
SS: “Once she played..”
“…for Rubenstein, who yawned.”
SS: “The children caper/…”
“…round a sprung mousetrap where a mouse lies dead./ When the sOft cOrpse wOnt mOve they seem afraid.”
SS: “featuring:…”
“…tasty dishes from stale bread.”
HS: “One constant in…”
“…a world of variables/-a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables.” (S1)
HS: “Lost in…”
“…a green confusion.” (S3)
HS: “He stands there,…”
“…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)
HS: “offering up instead…”
“…not much but as much as any man can offer” (S5)
EWSMAK: “one…, one…along with”
“…economy-size Mum, and one Anthony Squires-Coolstream-Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids straight off the Junior Department rack.” (s2)
EWSMAK: “WALK…”
“DON’T RUN. TURN LEFT. NO BREATHING EXCEPT BY ORDER.” (S3)
EWSMAK: “Littered with…”
“…stars no one had got around to fixing up yet..” (4)
EWSMAK: “Pretty soon he…”
“…was old enough to be/ realistic like every other godless/ money-hungry back-stabbing miserable/ so-and-so.” (5)
EWSMAK: “…you know…”
“…what I mean?” -> searching for meaning (6)
