Shutout Flashcards
What quotes link to the theme of loss/ grief and separation in ‘Shut Out’?
‘The door was shut. I looked between its iron bars, and saw it lie’
‘It had been mine, and it was lost’
‘Mortar and stone to build a wall, he left no loophole great or small’
What quotes link to the theme of desire and beauty of the garden in ‘Shut Out’?
‘My garden, mine, beneath the sky, Pied with all flowers bedewed and green:’
‘From bough to bough the song-birds crossed, From flower to flower the moths and bees’
‘Since my delightful land is gone’
What quote references fertility and disillusionment near to the end of ‘Shut Out’ ?
‘A violet bed is budding near, Wherein a lark has made her nest: And good they are, but not the best; And dear they are, but not so dear’
What quote links to grief and pain in ‘Shut Out’?
‘I sit here quite alone. Blinded with tears; nor grieve for that, For nought is left worth looking at Since my delightful land is gone.’
What quotes address the figures ominous nature in ‘Shut Out’?
’ A shadowless spirit kept the gate, Blank and unchanging like the grave’
‘he answered not.’
‘The spirit was silent’
