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Seamus Heaney: "Mossbawn: Sunlight" Flashcards

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There was ____

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There was a sunlit absence

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___ a sunlit absence

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There was a sunlit absence

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____ in the yard heated its iron

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The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

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The helmeted pump ___ heated its iron

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The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

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The helmeted pump in the yard ____

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The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

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The ___ pump in the yard heated its iron

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The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron

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___ in the slung bucket

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Water honeyed in the slung bucket

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Water ___ in the slung bucket

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Water honeyed in the slung bucket

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Water honeyed ___

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Water honeyed in the slung bucket

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Water honeyed in the ____

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Water honeyed in the slung bucket

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Water honeyed in the ___ bucket

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Water honeyed in the slung bucket

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Quote the first stanza of the poem

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There was a sunlit absence
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed

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___ like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood ___ cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle ____ of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood ____ against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling ___ of each long afternoon

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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Quote the second stanza of the poem

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in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
like a griddle cooling
against the wall

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall ____

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And the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon

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___, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

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So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

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So, ___ the bakeboard

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So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

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So, her hands ___ over the bakeboard

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So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

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So, her hands scuffled over ___

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So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard

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____ sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove ___ against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat ____ in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood ___ by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron ____

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The reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window

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Quote the third stanza of the poem

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of each long afternoon.
So, her hands scuffled
over the bakeboard,
the reddening stove

30
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Quote the fourth stanza of the poem.

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sent its plaque of heat
against her where she stood
in a floury apron
by the window

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Quote the first four stanzas of the poem

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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

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___ she dusts the board with a goose’s wing

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Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing

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___ with a goose’s wing

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Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing

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Now she dusts the board ____

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Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing

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Now she dusts the board with ___

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Now she dusts the board with a goose’s wing

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____, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Now sits, ____, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, ____ and measling shins:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails ____:

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Now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins:

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Quote the fifth stanza of the poem.

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Now she dusts the board
with a goose’s wing
now sits, broad-lapped,
with whitened nails

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___ is a space again

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Here is a space again

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___ a space again

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Here is a space again

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Here is ___ again

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Here is a space again

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Here is a space ___

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Here is a space again

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Here is ___

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Here is a space again

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____ to the tick of two clocks

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone rising ____

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone ___ to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The ___ rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone rising to the ___ of the two clocks

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

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The scone rising to the tick of ___

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The scone rising to the tick of the two clocks

52
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Quote the sixth stanza of the poem

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and measling shins:
here is a space
again, the scone rising
to the tick of two clocks

53
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And here is ___

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And here is love

54
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___ here is love

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And here is love

55
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And ___ love

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And here is love

56
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___ tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

57
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Like a ___ sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop ___ its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past ___ in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam ___

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the ___

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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____ tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal bin

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Quote the seventh stanza of the poem

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And here is love
like a tinsmith’s scoop
sunk past its gleam
in the meal-bin

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Quote the last three stanzas of the poem

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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

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Quote the full poem

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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

English: Poetry (8 decks)

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