Seamus Heaney: "Mossbawn: Sunlight" Flashcards
There was ____
There was a sunlit absence
___ a sunlit absence
There was a sunlit absence
____ in the yard heated its iron
The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron
The helmeted pump ___ heated its iron
The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron
The helmeted pump in the yard ____
The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron
The ___ pump in the yard heated its iron
The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron
___ in the slung bucket
Water honeyed in the slung bucket
Water ___ in the slung bucket
Water honeyed in the slung bucket
Water honeyed ___
Water honeyed in the slung bucket
Water honeyed in the ____
Water honeyed in the slung bucket
Water honeyed in the ___ bucket
Water honeyed in the slung bucket
Quote the first stanza of the poem
There was a sunlit absence
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed
___ like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood ___ cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle ____ of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood ____ against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling ___ of each long afternoon
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
Quote the second stanza of the poem
in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall ____
And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon
___, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard
So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard
So, ___ the bakeboard
So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard
So, her hands ___ over the bakeboard
So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard
So, her hands scuffled over ___
So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard
____ sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove ___ against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat ____ in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood ___ by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron ____
The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window
Quote the third stanza of the poem
of each long afternoon.
So, her hands scuffled
over the bakeboard,
the reddening stove
Quote the fourth stanza of the poem.
sent its plaque of heat
against her where she stood
in a floury apron
by the window
Quote the first four stanzas of the poem
There was a sunlit absence
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed
in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall
of each long afternoon.
So, her hands scuffled
over the bakeboard,
the reddening stove
sent its plaque of heat
against her where she stood
in a floury apron
by the window
___ she dusts the board with a goose’s wing
Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing
___ with a goose’s wing
Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing
Now she dusts the board ____
Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing
Now she dusts the board with ___
Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing
____, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Now sits, ____, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Now sits, broad-lapped, ____ and measling shins:
Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails ____:
Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:
Quote the fifth stanza of the poem.
Now she dusts the board
with a goose’s wing
now sits, broad-lapped,
with whitened nails
___ is a space again
Here is a space again
___ a space again
Here is a space again
Here is ___ again
Here is a space again
Here is a space ___
Here is a space again
Here is ___
Here is a space again
____ to the tick of two clocks
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
The scone rising ____
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
The scone ___ to the tick of the two clocks
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
The ___ rising to the tick of the two clocks
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
The scone rising to the ___ of the two clocks
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
The scone rising to the tick of ___
The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks
Quote the sixth stanza of the poem
and measling shins:
here is a space
again, the scone rising
to the tick of two clocks
And here is ___
And here is love
___ here is love
And here is love
And ___ love
And here is love
___ tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a ___ sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop ___ its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past ___ in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam ___
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the ___
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
____ tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin
Quote the seventh stanza of the poem
And here is love
like a tinsmith’s scoop
sunk past its gleam
in the meal-bin
Quote the last three stanzas of the poem
Now she dusts the board
with a goose’s wing
now sits, broad-lapped,
with whitened nails
and measling shins:
here is a space
again, the scone rising
to the tick of two clocks
And here is love
like a tinsmith’s scoop
sunk past its gleam
in the meal-bin
Quote the full poem
There was a sunlit absence
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed
in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall
of each long afternoon.
So, her hands scuffled
over the bakeboard,
the reddening stove
sent its plaque of heat
against her where she stood
in a floury apron
by the window
Now she dusts the board
with a goose’s wing
now sits, broad-lapped,
with whitened nails
and measling shins:
here is a space
again, the scone rising
to the tick of two clocks
And here is love
like a tinsmith’s scoop
sunk past its gleam
in the meal-bin
