quotes Flashcards
“his shoulders globed like a full sail strung”
follower - seamus heaney
technique: sailing imagery, simile
“All i ever did was follower. In his broad shadow around the farm”
follower - seamus heaney
technique : metaphor, half rhyme
“An expert. he would set the wing and fit the bright steel-pointed sock”
follower - seamus heaney
technique: caesura
“but today, it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me and will not go away”
follower - seamus heaney
technique : half- rhyme
“skin of his finger is smooth and thick like warm ice”
climbing my grandfather - andrew waterhouse
technique: simile
“at his still firm shoulder, i rest for awhile in the shade, not looking down”
climbing my grandfather - andrew waterhouse
technique: climbing imagery
“on his arm i discover the glassy ridge of a scar”
climbing my grandfather - andrew waterhouse
technique: metaphor
“the sky whitens as if lit by three suns”
eden rock - charles causley
technique: metaphor, light/biblical imagery
“i had not thought that it would be like this”
eden rock - charles causley
technique: monosyllabic language
“stiff white cloth over the grass. her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light”
eden rock - charles causley
technique: light imagery, metaphor
“they beckon to me from the other bank. i hear them call, ‘see where the stream-path is! crossing is not as hard as you might think”
eden rock - charles causley| technique: metaphor
“i reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly”
mother any distance - Simon Armitage
technique : bird imagery, metaphor
“you at zero-end, me with the spool of the tape [..] the line still reading out the unreeling / years between us”
mother any distance - Simon Armitage
technique: metaphor
“Anchor. Kite”
Mother any distance - simon armitage
technique: caesura
