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
