Literature Paper 2 quotes Flashcards
(48 cards)
Tissue: sunlight
Maps too. He sun shines through their border lines, the marks that rivers make, roads, rail tracks, mountain folds
Tissue: receipt
Fine slips from grocery shops […] might fly our life like paper kites
Poppies
A single dove flew from the pear tree
War photographer: attitude
They do not care
War photographer: places
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.
Oxymandias: start
I met a traveler
Oxymandias: statue/ artist
The hand that mocked them
London: streets
Charter’d
Charter’d
London: attitudes
In every blackening church […] in every […] in every […] mind-forged manacles
The prelude: height
Utmost boundary
The prelude: realisation
When […] a huge peak […] upreared it’s head
The last duchess: mythology
Notice Neptune, though, taming a seahorse
The last duchess: superiority
Will’t please you sit […] will’t please you rise
The charge of the light brigade: mistake
Wondered
The charge of the light brigade:duty
Theirs […] theirs […] theirs but to do and die
The emigreé: personification
Dancing
Sick
Lie down with me
The emigreé: light
Sunlight
Exposure: personification
Pale flakes with fingering strength
Exposure: repetition
But nothing happens
Storm on the island: oxymoron
Exploding comfortably
Storm on the island: iambic pentameter
We are prepared we build out houses squat
Kamikaze: last line
He must have wondered which had been a better way to die
Kamikaze: nature
A tune, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
Bayonet charge: first line
Suddenly he awoke and he was running - raw, in raw- seamed hot khaki