Necessary poetry Flashcards
(18 cards)
Who wrote midterm break
Seamus Heaney
A four foot
Box, a foot for every year, mtb
The baby
Cooed and laughed and rocked the pram.
Mtb
Who wrote the rose that grew from the concrete
Tupac Shakir
Long live the
Rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared
-trtgftc
Proving natures law
Is wrong, it learned to walk without having feet
Trtgftc
A host of
Golden daffodils/beside the lake beneath the trees / fluttering and dancing in the breeze
- daffodils
Continuous as the
Star that shine / and twinkle on the Milky Way, / they stretched in a never-ending line
-daffodils
I wandered
Lonely as a cloud
- daffodils
At first, we’ll meet as friends…
Secretly I’ll be hoping we’ll become much more
-ttoi
And one day
When the ice gives way we will scramble to save ourselves and not each other
- ttoi
The creeping
Cracks will be ignored…when the ice gives way
- ttoi
The old lie:
Dulce et decorum est / pro patria mori
- Dede
Who wrote dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen
Bent double,
Like old beggars under sacks
Knock-kneed,
Coughing like old hags, we cursed through sludge
- Dede
My friend,
You could not tell with such high zest/to children ardent for some desperate glory, / the old lie. - Dede
Who wrote the thickness of ice
Liz loxley
