Poetry quotes fill the blank Flashcards
LONDON 1- “I wander…”
“I wander through each chartered street”
LONDON 2- “The mind forged…”
“The mind forged manacles I hear”
LONDON 3- “every blackening…”
“Every blackening church appalls”
LONDON 4- “runs in blood…”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
LONDON 5- “And blights…”
“And blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
REMAINS 1- “On another occasion…”
“On another occasion we got sent out”
REMAINS 2- “I see every…”
“I see every round as it rips through his life”
REMAINS 3- “one of my mates…”
“One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body”
REMAINS 4- “and the drink…”
“And the drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
REMAINS 5- “but near to the knuckle…”
“But near to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands”
KAMIKAZE 1- “Her father…”
“Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword”
KAMIKAZE 2- “like a huge…”
“Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight”
KAMIKAZE 3- “the loose silver…”
“The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
KAMIKAZE 4- “only we children…”
“Only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent”
KAMIKAZE 5- “And sometimes…”
“And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had better the better way to die”
THE PRELUDE 1- “one summer evening…”
“One summer evening (led by her) I found a little boat tied to a willow tree”
THE PRELUDE 2- “The horizons…”
“The horizons upmost boundary far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
THE PRELUDE 3- “And growing still in…”
“And growing still in stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars”
THE PREULDE 4- “my brain worked with…”
“my brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being”
THE PRELUDE 5- “But huge and mighty…”
“But huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind day by day and were a trouble to my dreams”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 1- “storm…”
“Storm on the island” (title of poem)
STORM ON THE ISLAND 2- “sink walls in rock…”
“Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 3- “so that you listen to…”
“So that you listen to the thing you fear, forgetting that is pummels your house to”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 4- “you may think the sea is…”
“You may think the sea is company- exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 5- “Strange…”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY 1- “Dem tell me…”
“Dem tell me, Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me, bandage up me eye with me own history”
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY 2- “Toussaint…”
“Toussaint A slave with vision, Lick back Napoleon”
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY 3- “Dem tell me bout…”
“Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492 But what happen to de Caribs and Arawaks too”
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY 4- “A healing…”
“A healing star”
CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY 5- “But now I checking…”
“But now I checking out me own history, I carving out me identity”
BAYONET CHARGE 1- “Suddenly he awoke…”
“Suddenly he awoke and was running- raw in raw- seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy”
BAYONET CHARGE 2- “Bullets smacking the…”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air- He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
BAYONET CHARGE 3- “in what cold clockwork…l”
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?
BAYONET CHARGE 4- “threw up a yellow hare…”
“Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing , its mouth wide”
BAYONET CHARGE 5- “king, honour, human…”
“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera… his terrors touchy dynamite”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER 1- “In his darkroom he is…”
“In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER 2- “a priest preparing…”
“A priest preparing to intone a mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER 3- “A half-formed…”
“A half-formed ghost. He remembers the ones of this man’s wife, how he sought approval”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER 4- “The readers eyeballs…”
“The readers eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers”
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER 5- “From the aeroplane he stares…”
“From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care”
THE EMIGREE 1- “There once was…
“There once was a country…I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear”
THE EMIGREE 2- “It may be at war, it may be…”
“It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight “
THE EMIGREE 3- “That child’s vocabulary…”
“That child’s vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll opens and spills a grammar”
THE EMIGREE 4- “it lies down in front of of me…”
“It lies down in front of me, docile as paper; I comb its hair and love its shining eyes”
THE EMIGREE 5- “My city hides behind me…”
“My city hides behind me, they mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
EXPOSURE 1- “our brains ache, in the merciless iced east…
“Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us… wearied we keep awake because the night is silent”
EXPOSURE 2- “Dawn missing in the east, her melancholy…”
“Dawn missing in the east, her melancholy army Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey”
EXPOSURE 3- “so we drowse, sun-dozed, littered with…”
“so we drowse, sun-dozed, littered with blossoms trickling where blackbird fusses- is it that we are dying?”
EXPOSURE 4- “Therefore, not loath, we lie out here…”
“Therefore, not loath, we lie out here, therefore were born, for love of God seems dying”
EXPOSURE 5- “Pause, over half-known faces…
“Pause, over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens”
