Methaphors For Each Poem Flashcards
(15 cards)
A poison tree
“I water’s it in fears, night and morning with my tears”
The Destruction of Sennacherib
“Angel of Death”
The prelude
“o’er my thoughts their hung a darkness”
The Man He Killed
“I shot him because/ because he was my foe”
Cousin Kate
“my shame, my pride” / “cling closer, closer yet”
Half- caste
“I will tell yu / de other half / of my story”
Exposure
“the merciless iced winds that knives us”
Charge of the light brigade
“into the jaws of death”
Catrin
“tight red rope of love”
War Photographer
“silk crumpled, on the grass / in champagne giggles”
Belfast confetti
“it was raining exclamation marks”
The class game
“how can you tell what class I’m from?”
Poppies
“hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind”
No problem
“you put me in a pigeon hole / but I am versatile”
What were they like?
Laughter is bitter to the burned mouth
