Poetry Quotes Flashcards
1
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Which poem is this quote from?
“regiment of spite”
A
Nettles
2
Q
Which poem is this quote from?
“Her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild”
A
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
3
Q
Which poem is this quote from?
“I’ll lead you kindly by the hand”
A
A child to his sick grandfather
4
Q
“I’m vexed to see you, Dad”
A
A child to his sick grandfather
5
Q
“I’ll sit and talk with you”
A
A child to his sick grandfather
6
Q
“One shade to more, one ray the less”
A
She walks in beauty
7
Q
“Or softly lightens o’er her face”
A
She walks in beauty
8
Q
“Which heaven to gaudy day denies”
A
She walks in beauty
9
Q
“There is a change- and I am poor” (beginning)
A
A Complaint
10
Q
“Of murmuring, sparking, living love”
A
A Complaint
11
Q
“A well of love- it may be deep, I trust it is, - and never dry”
A
A Complaint
12
Q
“Of my fond heart, hath made me poor” (End)
A
A Complaint
13
Q
“We stood by a pond that winter day” (beginning)
A
Neutral Tones
14
Q
“Chidden of God”
A
Neutral Tones
15
Q
“A few leaves lay on the starving sod”
A
Neutral Tones
16
Q
“From an ash, and were grey”
A
Neutral Tones
17
Q
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing” (metaphor)
A
Neutral Tones
18
Q
“Alive enough to have strength to die” (oxymoron)
A
Neutral Tones
19
Q
“God- curst sun”
A
Neutral Tones
20
Q
“And a pond edged with greyish leaves” (end)
A
Neutral Tones
21
Q
“I love thee freely, as men strive for right,-“ (Volta)
A
Sonnet 43
22
Q
“How do i love thee? Let count the ways” (beginning)
A
Sonnet 43
23
Q
“In my old griefs,…” (Volta)
A
Sonnet 43
24
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” I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”
A
Sonnet 43
25
"By sun and candlelight"
Sonnet 43
26
"I love thee purely, as they turn from praise"
Sonnet 43
27
"I shall but love thee after death" (end)
Sonnet 43
28
"Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive" (Beginning)
My last Duchess
29
"None puts by the curtain that i have drawn for you"
My last Duchess
30
"Twas not her husbands presence only"
My last Duchess
31
"The white mule"
My last Duchess
32
"she thanked men-good"
My last Duchess
33
"I gave commands"
My last Duchess
34
"There she stands if alive" (repitition)
My last Duchess
35
"cast in bronze for me!" (end)
My last Duchess
36
"I said i liked classical music" (repetition)
| "She said she liked classical music" (Beginning)
1st Date - She
| 1st Date - He
37
"I couldn't care less what they play
| But I'm trying my hardest to listen" (enjambment)
1st Date - She
| 1st Date - He
38
"In that dress she is very attractive-
| the neckline can't fail to intrigue" (caesura)
1st Date - She
| 1st Date - He
39
"Where are we?" (collective pronoun)
1st Date - She
| 1st Date - He
40
"And quite undistracted by me" (repetition, parallel)
1st Date - She
| 1st Date - He
41
"not a red rose or a satin heart" (beginning, colour imagery"
Valentine
42
"it is a moon rapped in brown paper"
Valentine
43
"Like the careful undressing on love" (an onions layers)
Valentine
44
"I give you an onion"
Valentine
45
"It will blind you with tears"
Valentine
46
"a wobbling photo of grief"
Valentine
47
"Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips"
Valentine
48
"Passesive ans faithful
| as we are" (enjambment)
Valentine
49
"for as long as we are"
Valentine
50
"its platinum loops will shrink to a wedding ring"
Valentine
51
"Its scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife"
Valentine
52
"Lying apart now, each in a separate bed" (Beginning)
One Flesh
53
"She like a girl dreaming of childhood" (simile)
One Flesh
54
"Like a confession" (religious imagery)
One Flesh
55
"Chastity faces them"
One Flesh
56
"a destination
| For which their whole lives were a preparation" (enjambment)
One Flesh
57
"Time itself a feather touching them gently"
One Flesh
58
"Whose fire from which i came, has now grown cold?" (end)
One Flesh
59
"Let me be your ford cortina"
i wanna be yours
60
"If you like your coffee hot
| let me be your coffee pot"
i wanna be yours
61
"Let me be your raincoat
| for those frequent rainy days"
i wanna be yours
62
"Let me be your teddybear (emotive language)
| Take me with you anywhere"
i wanna be yours
63
"you get cold without"
i wanna be yours
64
"With deep devotion
deep as the deep
Atlantic ocean" (repetition)
i wanna be yours
65
"I dont wanna be hers
| I wanna be yours"
i wanna be yours
66
"What i hate about love is it's me me me"
Love's Dog
67
"What i love about love is its petting zoo"
Love's Dog
68
"What i hate about love is it's shrinking potion"
Love's Dog
69
"What i loathe about love is its burnt toast and bonemeal"(emotive language)
Love's Dog
70
"What i hate about love is its bent cigarette"
Love's Dog
71
"nettle bed"
Nettles
72
"green spears"
Nettles
73
"White blisters beaded on his tender skin"
Nettles
74
"watery grin"
Nettles
75
"I took my billhook, honed the blade"
Nettles
76
"slashed in fury"
Nettles
77
"Till not a nettle in that fierce parade"
Nettles
78
"A funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead"
Nettles
79
"the busy sun and rain
| had called up tall recruits behind the shed"
Nettles
80
"My son would often feel sharp wounds again" (end)
Nettles
81
"after passionate nights and intimate days"
The Manhunt
82
"Only then" (repetition, anaphora)
The Manhunt
83
"Frozen river"
The Manhunt
84
"porcelain collar-bone"
The Manhunt
85
"fractured rudder of shoulder-blade" (mechanical)
The Manhunt
86
"parachute silk of his punctured lung"
The Manhunt
87
"Feel the hurt of his grazed heart" (ambiguous)
The Manhunt
88
"the foetus of metal beneath his chest
| where the bullet had finally come to rest"
The Manhunt
89
"Then i widened the search"
The Manhunt
90
"Unexploded mine buried deep inside his mind"
The Manhunt
91
"Then, and only then, did I come close" (end)
The Manhunt
92
"My fathers face
five days dead (beginning)
organised for me to see"
My Father would not show us
93
"My father would not show us how to die" (repetition)
My Father would not show us
94
"Behind the curtains whee his life had been"
My Father would not show us
95
"He could recall the rag-and-bone man" (modal verb)
My Father would not show us
96
"face to the wall, he lay" (end)
My Father would not show us
97
"Its cold in here" (ambiguous)
My Father would not show us
98
"the borrowed coffin gleams unnaurally"
My Father would not show us
99
"unfrozen collar of his striped pyjamas"
My Father would not show us
100
"to remember my childhood as it might have been"
My Father would not show us
101
"everything her hears is white"
My Father would not show us
102
"I set her on my pacing steed" (chivalric)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
103
"On the cold hill side"
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
104
"I love thee true"
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
105
"I met a lady in the meads"
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
106
"O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms" (beginning, repetition)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
107
"Full beautiful - a faery's child" (love, supernatural)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
108
"This is why i sojourn here" (archaic)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
109
"And no birds sing" (end)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
110
"I have a tale both long and good"
A Child To His Sick Grandfather
111
"Scant are the white hairs on your crown" (archaic)
A Child To His Sick Grandfather
112
"you do not hear me, Dad." (end)
A Child To His Sick Grandfather
113
"can scarce support your bended corse"
A Child To His Sick Grandfather
114
"You used to smile and stroke my head,
| And tell me how good children did"
A Child To His Sick Grandfather
