Poetry Quotes

Question 1

London- William Blake (4)

Answer 1

• ”I wander through each chartered street”
• ”A mark in every face I meet”
• ”The mind-forged manacles I hear”
• ”How the youthful harlot’s curse, blasts the newborn infant’s tear”

Question 2

The Lamb- William Blake (3)

Answer 2

-”Dost thou know who made thee”
-”Meek and Mild”
-“I a child and thou a lamb”
We are called by his name.”

Question 3

The Unknown Citizen- W.H. Auden (4)

Answer 3

• “He was found by the bureau of statistics”
• “He worked in a factory and never got fired”
• “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went”
• “Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd

Question 4

The Unknown Citizen- W.H. Auden. parody of an ____.

Answer 4

elegy

Question 5

Why is the title of the unknown citizen ironic?

Answer 5

The title is thus ironic, as there’s little that the state doesn’t seem to know about the dead man.

Question 6

The Lamb- William Blake-_____ poem.

Answer 6

didactic poem

Question 7

Funeral Blues- W.H. Auden quotes (4)

Answer 7

• ”Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”
• ”He was my North, my South, my East and West”
• ”Pack up the moon, and dismantle the sun”
• ”For nothing new can ever come to any good”

Question 8

i thank you God- e.e. Cummings -_____ poetic style.

Answer 8

Idiosyncratic poetic style

Question 9

i thank you God- e.e. Cummings quotes. (5)

Answer 9

-”Blue true dream of sky”
-The “i” is in lowercase while the “You” is capitalized
-I who have died am alive again
-now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened
-i thank You God for this most amazing / day”

Question 10

Ozymandias- Shelly quotes (5)

Answer 10

• Half sunk a shattered visage lies
• Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• Nothing beside remains
• ‘king of kings’
• sneer of cold command