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Poetry Quotes Flashcards

1
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Which poem is this quote from?

“regiment of spite”

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Nettles

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Which poem is this quote from?

“Her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild”

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Which poem is this quote from?

“I’ll lead you kindly by the hand”

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A child to his sick grandfather

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“I’m vexed to see you, Dad”

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A child to his sick grandfather

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“I’ll sit and talk with you”

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A child to his sick grandfather

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“One shade to more, one ray the less”

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She walks in beauty

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“Or softly lightens o’er her face”

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She walks in beauty

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“Which heaven to gaudy day denies”

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She walks in beauty

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9
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“There is a change- and I am poor” (beginning)

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A Complaint

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10
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“Of murmuring, sparking, living love”

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A Complaint

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“A well of love- it may be deep, I trust it is, - and never dry”

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A Complaint

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12
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“Of my fond heart, hath made me poor” (End)

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A Complaint

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13
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“We stood by a pond that winter day” (beginning)

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Neutral Tones

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14
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“Chidden of God”

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Neutral Tones

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15
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“A few leaves lay on the starving sod”

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Neutral Tones

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16
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“From an ash, and were grey”

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Neutral Tones

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17
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“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing” (metaphor)

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Neutral Tones

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18
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“Alive enough to have strength to die” (oxymoron)

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Neutral Tones

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19
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“God- curst sun”

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Neutral Tones

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20
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“And a pond edged with greyish leaves” (end)

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Neutral Tones

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21
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“I love thee freely, as men strive for right,-“ (Volta)

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Sonnet 43

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22
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“How do i love thee? Let count the ways” (beginning)

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Sonnet 43

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23
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“In my old griefs,…” (Volta)

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Sonnet 43

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24
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” I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”

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Sonnet 43

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25
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“By sun and candlelight”

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Sonnet 43

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26
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“I love thee purely, as they turn from praise”

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Sonnet 43

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27
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“I shall but love thee after death” (end)

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Sonnet 43

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28
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“Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive” (Beginning)

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My last Duchess

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29
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“None puts by the curtain that i have drawn for you”

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My last Duchess

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30
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“Twas not her husbands presence only”

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My last Duchess

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31
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“The white mule”

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My last Duchess

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32
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“she thanked men-good”

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My last Duchess

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33
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“I gave commands”

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My last Duchess

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34
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“There she stands if alive” (repitition)

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My last Duchess

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35
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“cast in bronze for me!” (end)

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My last Duchess

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36
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“I said i liked classical music” (repetition)

“She said she liked classical music” (Beginning)

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1st Date - She

1st Date - He

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37
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“I couldn’t care less what they play

But I’m trying my hardest to listen” (enjambment)

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1st Date - She

1st Date - He

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38
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“In that dress she is very attractive-

the neckline can’t fail to intrigue” (caesura)

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1st Date - She

1st Date - He

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39
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“Where are we?” (collective pronoun)

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1st Date - She

1st Date - He

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40
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“And quite undistracted by me” (repetition, parallel)

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1st Date - She

1st Date - He

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41
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“not a red rose or a satin heart” (beginning, colour imagery”

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Valentine

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42
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“it is a moon rapped in brown paper”

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Valentine

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43
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“Like the careful undressing on love” (an onions layers)

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Valentine

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44
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“I give you an onion”

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Valentine

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45
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“It will blind you with tears”

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Valentine

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46
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“a wobbling photo of grief”

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Valentine

47
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“Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips”

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Valentine

48
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“Passesive ans faithful

as we are” (enjambment)

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Valentine

49
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“for as long as we are”

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Valentine

50
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“its platinum loops will shrink to a wedding ring”

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Valentine

51
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“Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”

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Valentine

52
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“Lying apart now, each in a separate bed” (Beginning)

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One Flesh

53
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“She like a girl dreaming of childhood” (simile)

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One Flesh

54
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“Like a confession” (religious imagery)

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One Flesh

55
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“Chastity faces them”

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One Flesh

56
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“a destination

For which their whole lives were a preparation” (enjambment)

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One Flesh

57
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“Time itself a feather touching them gently”

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One Flesh

58
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“Whose fire from which i came, has now grown cold?” (end)

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One Flesh

59
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“Let me be your ford cortina”

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i wanna be yours

60
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“If you like your coffee hot

let me be your coffee pot”

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i wanna be yours

61
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“Let me be your raincoat

for those frequent rainy days”

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i wanna be yours

62
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“Let me be your teddybear (emotive language)

Take me with you anywhere”

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i wanna be yours

63
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“you get cold without”

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i wanna be yours

64
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“With deep devotion
deep as the deep
Atlantic ocean” (repetition)

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i wanna be yours

65
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“I dont wanna be hers

I wanna be yours”

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i wanna be yours

66
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“What i hate about love is it’s me me me”

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Love’s Dog

67
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“What i love about love is its petting zoo”

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Love’s Dog

68
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“What i hate about love is it’s shrinking potion”

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Love’s Dog

69
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“What i loathe about love is its burnt toast and bonemeal”(emotive language)

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Love’s Dog

70
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“What i hate about love is its bent cigarette”

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Love’s Dog

71
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“nettle bed”

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Nettles

72
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“green spears”

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Nettles

73
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“White blisters beaded on his tender skin”

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Nettles

74
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“watery grin”

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Nettles

75
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“I took my billhook, honed the blade”

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Nettles

76
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“slashed in fury”

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Nettles

77
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“Till not a nettle in that fierce parade”

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Nettles

78
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“A funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead”

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Nettles

79
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“the busy sun and rain

had called up tall recruits behind the shed”

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Nettles

80
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“My son would often feel sharp wounds again” (end)

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Nettles

81
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“after passionate nights and intimate days”

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The Manhunt

82
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“Only then” (repetition, anaphora)

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The Manhunt

83
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“Frozen river”

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The Manhunt

84
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“porcelain collar-bone”

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The Manhunt

85
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“fractured rudder of shoulder-blade” (mechanical)

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The Manhunt

86
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“parachute silk of his punctured lung”

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The Manhunt

87
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“Feel the hurt of his grazed heart” (ambiguous)

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The Manhunt

88
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“the foetus of metal beneath his chest

where the bullet had finally come to rest”

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The Manhunt

89
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“Then i widened the search”

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The Manhunt

90
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“Unexploded mine buried deep inside his mind”

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The Manhunt

91
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“Then, and only then, did I come close” (end)

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The Manhunt

92
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“My fathers face
five days dead (beginning)
organised for me to see”

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My Father would not show us

93
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“My father would not show us how to die” (repetition)

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My Father would not show us

94
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“Behind the curtains whee his life had been”

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My Father would not show us

95
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“He could recall the rag-and-bone man” (modal verb)

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My Father would not show us

96
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“face to the wall, he lay” (end)

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My Father would not show us

97
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“Its cold in here” (ambiguous)

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My Father would not show us

98
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“the borrowed coffin gleams unnaurally”

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My Father would not show us

99
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“unfrozen collar of his striped pyjamas”

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My Father would not show us

100
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“to remember my childhood as it might have been”

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My Father would not show us

101
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“everything her hears is white”

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My Father would not show us

102
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“I set her on my pacing steed” (chivalric)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

103
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“On the cold hill side”

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

104
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“I love thee true”

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

105
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“I met a lady in the meads”

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

106
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“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms” (beginning, repetition)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

107
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“Full beautiful - a faery’s child” (love, supernatural)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

108
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“This is why i sojourn here” (archaic)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

109
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“And no birds sing” (end)

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

110
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“I have a tale both long and good”

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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

111
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“Scant are the white hairs on your crown” (archaic)

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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

112
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“you do not hear me, Dad.” (end)

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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

113
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“can scarce support your bended corse”

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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

114
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“You used to smile and stroke my head,

And tell me how good children did”

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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

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