Poetry Quotes - Final Flashcards
Quotes for The Flea (John Donne)
“Mark but this flea, and mark in this”
“This flea is you and I, and this/ Our marriage bed and marriage temple is”
“It sucked me first, and now sucks thee”
“A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead”
“And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.”
“Cruel and sudden, hast thou since / purpled thy nail in blood of innocence”
Quotes for Satirical Elegy (Jonathon Swift)
“His Grace! Impossible! What dead!”
“And could that mighty warrior fall? / And so inglorious after all!”
“The last loud trump must wake him now”
“This world he cumbered long enough”
“Nor widow’s sighs, nor orphan’s tears”
“True to his profit and his pride, / He made them weep before he died”
“Come hither, all ye empty things, / ye bubbles rais’d by breath of kings”
“Turn’s to that dirt from whence he sprung”
Quotes for Sunny Prestatyn (Philip Larkin)
“Come to Sunny Prestatyn / laughed the girl on the poster”
“Kneeling up on the sand”
“Spread breast-lifting arms”
“She was slapped up one day in March”
“Huge tits and a fissured crotch”
“A tuberous cock and balls”
“Someone had used a knife / Or something to stab right through”
“She was too good for this life”
“Now Fight Cancer is there.”
Quotes for Not My Best Side (U.A Fanthorpe)
“Poor chap, he had this obsession with / Triangles.”
“Why […] should my conquerer be ostentatiously beardless, and ride / A horse with a deformed neck and square hoofs?”
“It’s hard for a girl to be sure is / she wants to be rescued”
“Lovely green skin, and a sexy tail […] He made me feel he was ready to / Eat me. And any girl enjoys that.”
“What was he like underneath the hardware?”
“My horse is the latest model, with / Automatic transmission” […] “my spear is custom built”
“Don’t you want to carry out the roles / that sociology and myth have designed for you?”
“Does it matter what / You want? You’re in my way”
My Rival’s House (Liz Lochhead)
“The / parquet floor / is beautiful and its surface must / be protected.”
“Silver sugar-tongs and silver salver, / My rival serves
us tea”
“Soon my rival / capped tooth and polished nail / will fight, fight foul for her survival.
“Thank her for each bitter cup”
“Lady of the house. / Queen bee.”
“Her salt tears pepper our soup. / She won’t / give up.”
Quotes for Mrs Sisyphus (Carol Ann Duffy)
“The jerk” […] “The absolute berk”
“Think of the perks, he says. / What use is a perk I shriek”
“A load of old bollocks is nearer the mark”
“That feckin’ stone’s no sooner up / than it’s rolling back / all the way down.”
“But I lie alone in the dark, / feeling like Noah’s wife did”
“My voice reduced to a squalk / my smile to a twisted smirk”
“He is giving one hundred percent and / more to his work.”
