Key Quotes - My 8 Poems

Question 1

Sonnet 43

Answer 1

‘depth and breadth and height’
‘How do I love thee’
‘I’/’me’/’My’
‘sun and candlelight’
‘old griefs’/’childhood faith’/’my lost saints’
‘Smiles, tears’
‘Being and ideal Grace’/’soul’/’Right’/’Praise’

Question 2

The Soldier

Answer 2

‘England’/’English’
‘blest by the suns of home’
‘flowers’/’ her ways to roam’
‘If’
‘think only this of me’
‘That there’s some corner of a foreign field’
‘That is for ever England’
‘richer dust concealed’
‘bore, shaped, made aware’/’A body of England’s

Question 3

Death of a Naturalist

Answer 3

‘sods’/’sweltered’/’sun’
‘wait and watch until’
‘coarse croaking’
‘I sickened, turned and ran’
‘sweltered in the punishing sun’
‘Then’
‘best of all’
‘festered’/’rotted’
‘Bubbles gargled delicately’
‘bluebottles’/’dragon-flies, spotted butterflies’/’frogspawn’
‘Miss Walls’/’daddy frog’/’mammy frog’
‘The air was thick with a bass chorus’
‘frogs were cocked’/’pulsed like sails’/’Poised like mud grenades’

Question 4

Hawk Roosting

Answer 4

‘hooked head’/’hooked feet’
‘feet’/’eat’
‘locked’/’bark’
‘direct Through’
‘I’
‘I kill where I please because it is all mine’
‘top of the wood’
‘Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills’
‘convenience’/’advantage’
‘earth’s face upward for my inspection’
‘Now I hold creation in my foot’
‘My manners are tearing off heads-‘
‘The allotment of death’

Question 5

The Prelude

Answer 5

‘All shod with steel, We hiss’d along the polish’d ice’
‘the precipices rang aloud, The leafless trees, and every icy crag’
‘Of melancholy’/’Meanwhile’
‘happy time’/’time of rapture’
‘games confederate’
‘frosty season’/’The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d’
‘I heeded not the summons’
‘Proud and exulting, like an unti’d horse, That cares not for his home’
‘chace’/’horn’/’Pack/’hunted’
‘alien sound’
‘The orange sky of evening died away’

Question 6

To Autumn

Answer 6

‘oozings hours by hours’
‘And gathering swallows twitter in the skies’
‘Conspiring’
‘soft-dying day’/’wailful choir’/’mourn’
‘seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness!’
‘bless’/’ripeness’/’sweet’
‘fruitfulness’/’swell the gourd’/’later flowers for the bees’
‘With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage trees’
‘Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?’
‘sound asleep’/’Drows’d’/’half-reap’d’/’cyder-press’
‘Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?’
‘songs’/’music’/’choir’/’sing’/’whistles’

Question 7

Dulce et Decorum Est

Answer 7

‘GAS! GAS! Quick, boys!’
‘watch the white eyes writhing’/’Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues’
‘His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin’/’Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud’
‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags’
‘Men marched asleep’/’limped’/’Drunk with fatigue’
‘gas shells dropping softly behind’
‘fumbling’/’stumbling’/’flound’ring’
‘flound’ring like a man in fire or lime’/’As under a green sea, I saw him drowning’
‘He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning’
‘you’/’we’/’his’
‘My friend’/’The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori’

Question 8

London

Answer 8

‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’
‘Marriage hearse’
‘every’/’mark’/’cry’
‘Every black’ning church appalls’
‘charter’d Thames’
‘mind-forg’d manacles I hear’
‘Runs in blood down Palace walls’
‘youthful Harlot’s’/’Blasts the new born Infant’s tear’