Quote --> Technique Flashcards
“In the room the women come and go\ talking of Michelangelo”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Rhyming Couplet, Bathos
“And time for all the works and days of hands\that lift and drop a question on your plate”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Synecdoche
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Rhetorical Question, irony
“But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns across the screen”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Metaphor, Allusion
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Pessimism, tone, mythical allusion.
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Paradox, Metaphor
“And for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea.”
Poem: Prufrock
Technique: Synecdoche
“A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Bathos, Rhyming couplet
“In a thousand furnished rooms”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Hyperbole
“The thousand sordid images\of which your soul was constituted”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Imagrey
“And you heard the sparrows in the gutters”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Imagery, symbolism
“And short square fingers stuffing pipes, and evening newspapers, and eyes\assured of certain certainties.”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Synecdoche
“The worlds revolve like ancient women\gathering fuel in vacant lots”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Imagery, Bathos
“With the other masquerades that time resumes”
Poem: Preludes
Technique: Motif
“As a madman shakes a dead geranium”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Simile
“Every street lamp that I pass beats like a fatalistic drum”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Personification, musicality
“Whispering lunar incantations dissolve the floors of memory”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Motif, Metaphor
“A twisted branch upon the beach\eaten smooth, as if the world gave up\the secret of its skeleton”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Symbolism, simile
“I could see nothing behind that child’s eye”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Ironic reversal of romanticist imagery.
“The last twist of the knife”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Hyperbolic anticlimax
“La lune ne garde aucune rancune”
Poem: Rhapsody
Technique: Allusion, symbolism, motif
“The very dead of winter… the summer palaces on slopes, the terraces”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Pathetic Fallacy, juxtaposition
“With the voices singing in our ears, saying that this was all folly”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Fragmentation, Rejection of traditional narrative
“With a running stream… And three trees in a low sky”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Allusion
“Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Synecdoche, allusion
“And I would do it again, but set down-this set down-this:”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Enjambment, voice (Temporal shift)
“Were we led all this way for birth or death?”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Rhetorical Question
“I should be glad of another death”
Poem: Magi
Technique: Voice
“Mistah Kurtz- He dead.
A penny for the old guy
We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed men, Headpeice filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats feet over broken glass, in our dried cellar."
Poem: The Hollow Men
Technique: Intertextuality
Juxtaposition
Objective correlative, rhyme and more
“Let me also wear
such deliberate disguises”
Poem: The Hollow Men
Technique: Irony
“Behaving as the wind behaves- no nearer”
Poem: The Hollow Men
Technique: Symbolism
“Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone”
Poem: The Hollow Men
Technique: Symbolism
