Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Loss
A
“She lay silenced in the absolute black of a sandy grave” (last stanza) , “so many questions unanswered”
2
Q
People/place
A
“I can see her strong foot stained with peat” , “ I still hear her voice welcoming me with a seagulls voice, across a hundred yards of peat scrapes and lazybeds”
3
Q
Suffering
A
“Feet stained with peat” , “winds blowing wetly” , “buckets and water flouncing onto them”
4
Q
Isolation
A
“I could not answer her, I could not understand her” , “absolute darkness of a box bed” contrast with “absolute blackness of a sandy grave”
5
Q
Nature
A
“With a seagulls voice across a hundred yards of peat scrapes and lazybeds” , “crickets being friendly”
6
Q
Human existence
A
“She spoke Gaelic very loud and very fast, I couldn’t answer her, I couldn’t understand her”
