Quotes Flashcards
What is the first line of the poem?
“All year the flax-dam festered in the heart”
What is the last line?
“That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it”
What war imagery does he begin to use after line 23?
“Invaded”
“Mud grenades”
How does he describe the frogs at the end of the poem?
“Great slime kings” who were gathered for “vengeance”
How does he describe the sun?
“Sweltered in the punishing sun”
How does he describe the bubbles?
“Bubbles gargled delicately”
What did he enjoy best?
“Warm, thick slobber of frogspawn” which grew like “clotted water”
What did he do with the frogspawn?
He filled “jam pots full of the jellied specks”
Where is innocence presented?
“Daddy”/“mammy frog”
“Miss walls”
How does he react to the frogs in the last section of the poem?
“[He] sickened, turned, and ran”
