Assisi Quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
1
Q
Stanza one, description of beggar
A
- The dwarf with his hands on backwards
- sat, slumped like a half-filled sack
- on tiny twisted legs from which
- sawdust might run,
2
Q
Stanza one, description of church
A
- outside the three tiers of churches built
- in honour of St Francis, brother
of the poor, talker with birds, over whom
3
Q
Stanza one, final lines
A
- talker with birds, over whom
- he had the advantage
- of not being dead yet.
4
Q
Stanza two, priest
A
- A priest explained
- how clever it was of Giotto
5
Q
Stanza two, frescoes
A
- to make his frescoes tell stories
that would reveal to the illiterate the goodness - of God and the suffering
- of His Son. I understood
6
Q
Stanza two, sarcasm
A
- of His Son. I understood
- the explanation and
- the cleverness.
7
Q
Stanza three, tourists
A
- A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly,
- fluttered after him as he scattered
- the grain of the Word. It was they who had passed
8
Q
Stanza three, description of beggar
A
- the ruined temple outside, whose eyes
- wept pus, whose back was higher
- than his head, whose lopsided mouth
9
Q
Stanza three, St Francis
A
- said Grazie in a voice as sweet
- as a child’s when she speaks to her mother
- or a bird’s when it spoke
- to St Francis.
10
Q
Theme of suffering
A
- hands on backwards
- half-filled sack
- tiny twisted legs
- sawdust might run
- advantage of not being dead yet
- ruined temple outside
- eyes wept pus
- back higher than his head
- lopsided mouth
11
Q
Theme of hypocrisy
A
- three tiers of churches built in honour of St Francis, brother of the poor
- how clever it was of Giotto
- I understood the explanation and the cleverness
- A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the Word
- It was they who had passed the ruined temple outside
12
Q
Theme of injustice
A
- that would reveal to the illiterate the goodness of God and the suffering of his son
- I understood the explanation and the cleverness
- It was they who had passed the ruined temple outside
- whose lopsided mouth said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child’s
