Module B Flashcards

Question

Rhapsody: time, lamp

Answer 1

Twelve o'clock. ... Half-past one ... Half-past two ... Half-past three ... The lamp said, 'Four o'clock, Here is the number on the door. Memory! You have the key

Answer 2

The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall, Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life.' The last twist of the knife.

Answer 3

Smells of chestnuts in the streets, And female smells in shuttered rooms, And cigarettes in corridors And cocktail smells in bars.

Answer 4

La lune ne garde aucune rancune, She winks a feeble eye, She smiles into corners. She smoothes the hair of the grass

Answer 5

The moon has lost her memory. A washed-out smallpox cracks her face, Her hand twists a paper rose, That smells of dust and old Cologne

Answer 6

She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells That cross and cross across her brain.' The reminiscence comes Of sunless dry geraniums

Answer 7

The street lamp said, 'Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter, Slips out its tongue And devours a morsel of rancid butter.'

Answer 8

So the hand of a child, automatic, Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay. I could see nothing behind that child's eye I have seen eyes in the street Trying to peer through lighted shutters

Answer 9

The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars

Answer 10

Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves

Answer 11

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column

Answer 12

And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.

Answer 13

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw.

Answer 14

Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass

Answer 15

This is the way the worlds ends This is the way the worlds ends This is the way the worlds ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

Answer 16

muddy feet that press To early coffee-stands

Answer 17

With the other masquerades That time resumes

Answer 18

One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms

Answer 19

The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh

Answer 20

The worlds revolve like ancient women Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

Answer 21

His soul stretched tight across the skies That fade behind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four and five and six o’clock

Answer 22

You curled the papers from your hair, Or clasped the yellow soles of feet In the palms of both soiled hands.

Answer 23

You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images

Answer 24

And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,

Answer 25

‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’

Answer 26

The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling and running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly And the villages dirty and charging high prices:

Answer 27

With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly.

Answer 28

Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley, Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;

Answer 29

With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness, And three trees on the low sky, And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.

Answer 30

Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver, And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.

Answer 31

And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.

Answer 32

All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?

Answer 33

There was a Birth, certainly We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.

Answer 34

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death