Quotes Innit Anthology Bruvv

Question 1

London

Answer 1

I wander thro’ each charter’d street
Every black’ning church appalls
Blights with plagues the marriage hearse

Question 2

Living space

Answer 2

Not enough straight lines
Nails clutch at open seams
Bright thin walls of faith

Question 3

Hawk Roosting

Answer 3

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed
My manners are tearing off heads
I am going to keep things like this

Question 4

AIAG

Answer 4

Summer lapsed away
A courteous yet harrowing grace
Our summer made her light escape into the beautiful

Question 5

Prelude

Answer 5

I heeded not the summons, happy time
Hiss’d along the polished ice
Of melancholy, not unnoticed, whilst the stars

Question 6

The solider

Answer 6

A corner of a foreign field that is forever England
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven

Question 7

Manhunt

Answer 7

Frozen river which ran through his face
Parachute silk of his punctured lung
Then, and only then did I come close

Question 8

Afternoons

Answer 8

Young mothers assemble
Our wedding lying near the television
Something is pushing them to the sides of their own lives