Post-modern Pastoral Poetry

Question 1

Name important quotes from Poem in October-Dylan Thomas

Answer 1

It was my thirtieth year to heaven’
‘Where a boy… Whispered the truth of his joy to the trees and the stones’
‘Joy of the long dead child sang burning in the sun’

Question 2

Name 3 important quotes from Show Saturday-Philip Larkin?

Answer 2

Like shifting scenery’
‘Back now to private addresses’
‘Back now, all of them, to their local lives’
‘Let it always be there’

Question 3

Name important quotes from going, going-Philip Larkin

Answer 3

‘The crowd is young in the M1 cafe’
‘That it isn’t going to last’
‘And that will be England gone’
‘I just think it will happen soon’

Question 4

Name important quotes from in a garden-Elizabeth Jennings

Answer 4

‘Yet I still felt lost and i wonder why’

‘Sickness for Eden was so strong’

Question 5

State important quotes from Stanton Drew- U A Fanthorpe?

Answer 5

'First you dismantle the land scape' 
'Trees must go, roads, of course'
'And earth stripped of its future' 
'Archaeologists have rubbed against them' 
'Listen to the past's long pulse'

Question 6

State some important quotes from Sparrow-MacCaig

Answer 6

’ he’s no artist’
‘That blackbird…’ Gold nib’
‘ he carries what learning he has lightly’
‘These other birds-ballet dancers… Die in the snow’
‘Watch him happily flying on the O-levels and A-levels of the air’

Question 7

Name three quotes from Fern Hill- Dylan Thomas important quotes.

Answer 7

‘Now as I was young and easy’
‘Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means’
‘Lovely’
‘And then to awake’
‘In the lamb white days’
‘Though I sang in my chains like the sea’