the poetry anthology Flashcards
letsnotdie
mametz wood quotes for death
“the china plate of shoulder blade”- fragility of life
“in boots that outlasted them” the simplicity of boots being personified to have lived to their potential more than soldiers highlights the absurdity
mametz wood quotes for war
“a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm” shows comraderie even in death
“slipped from their absent toungues” grotesque imagery and leaves a dark impression of the soldiers on then having peace
“twenty men in one long grave” the scale and absurdity of war
mametz wood quotes for remberance
“like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin” trying to heal from tragedy
“even now the earth stands sentinel” taking care of the deceased soldiers
A wife in London quotes for death
“A waning taper” candle going out like husbands life
“He — he has fallen — in the far South Land…”
“His hand, whom the worm now knows”
A wife in London quotes for love
“Of meaning it dazes to understand” loss of love is paralysing
“penned in highest feather” hopeful
“And of new love that they would learn”
a Wife in London- Tragedy/absurdity of war
“The street-lamp glimmers cold” juxtaposition
“Of meaning it dazes to understand” confusing and hard time
“And of new love that they would learn.” use of modal verb shows wasted potential
Excerpt from the Prelude quotes for youth (independence could also work)
“I heeded not the summons: – happy time”
“It was a time of rapture: clear and loud”
“And woodland pleasures”
“Proud and exulting”
EftP quotes for Natures beauty
“The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d”
“And woodland pleasures” childlike joy from experiencing nature
“every icy crag/Tinkled like iron”
Death of a Naturalist loss of innocence/ reflection
“Best of all was the thick warm slobber”
“The slap and plop were obscene threats”
“Were gathered there for vengeance”
“Then one hot day when fields were rank”
“Invaded the flax dam”
Death of a naturalist Nature
“Bubbles gargled delicately”
“The warm thick slobber”
“hundreds of little eggs and this was/ Frogspawn”
The Manhunt War
“the foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“the frozen river which ran through his face”
“to a sweating, unexploded mine/buried deep in his mind”
The Manhunt Love
“after passionate nights and intimate days”
“only then would he let me trace/the frozen river which ran through his face”
“Then, and only then, did I come close”
The Manhunt Healing
“the blown hinge of his lower jaw”- difficulty expressing
“the foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“Then, and only then, did I come close”
Hawks Roosting Power
“I kill where I please because it is all mine.”
“the earth’s face upward for my inspection”
“No arguments assert my right”
Hawks Roosting Death
“My manners are tearing off heads”
“I kill where I please because it is all mine.”
“Through the bones of the living”
“rehearse perfect kills and eat.”
