Poem Quotes and Themes Flashcards
(23 cards)
1
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Infidelity
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- Absent from thee
- The Scrutiny
- Non sum
2
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Unattainable love/barriers to love
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- The Garden of Love
- Ae Fond Kiss
- Absent from thee
3
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Social class and love
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- Whoso
- Ruined maid
- At an Inn
4
Q
Lust/sex/seduction
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- The Flea
- To his coy mistress
5
Q
Love and time/ enduring love
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- Sonnet 116
- Remember
6
Q
Love and isolation
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- Non sum
- Whoso
7
Q
Destructive/ painful love
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- Whoso
- Ae fond kiss
- La belle dame
8
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Idealised love
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- She walks in beauty
- Sonnet 116
9
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Love and gender
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- She walks in beauty
- La belle dame
- The ruined maid
10
Q
Whoso and Gatsby
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- “May spend his tyme in vain” - “High in a white palace, the King’s daughter, the golden girl”
- “Graven with diamondes” - “He gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred dollars”
11
Q
Sonnet 116 and Gatsby
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- “It is the star to every wandering barke” - “I…distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”
- “Lov’s not Time’s fool” - “Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can”
12
Q
The Flea and Gatsby
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- “Swells with one blood made of two” - “swollen… along it’s monstrous length”
- “We almost, yea more than married are” - “forever wed his unattainable visions to her perishable breath”
13
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To His Coy Mistress and Gatsby
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- “At my back I was always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” - “rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock”
- “Though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run” - “I’m going to fix everything the way it was before”
14
Q
The Scrutiny and Gatsby
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- “Sound for treasure” - “Gleaming like silver”
- “like skilful mineralists” - “lived like a young rajah, collecting jewels, chiefly rubies”
15
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Absent from thee - Gatsby
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- “The straying fool” - “Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself”
- “Absent from thee I languish still” - “He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way”
16
Q
The Garden of Love and Gatsby
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- “It was filled with graves and tombstones where flowers should be” - “ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”
- “Where I used to play on the green” - “A fresh, green breast of the new world”
17
Q
Ae fond kiss and Gatsby
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- “Star of hope she leaves him” - “you always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock”
- “Nae cheerful twinkle lights me” - “His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”
18
Q
She walks in beauty and Gatsby
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- “Thoughts serenely sweet express how pure, how dear their dwelling-place” - “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
- “All that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes” - “as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire”
19
Q
Remember and Gatsby
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- “Gone far into the silent land” - “Her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick blood with dust”
- “When you can no longer hold me by the hand” - “I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed”
20
Q
The Ruined Maid and Gatsby
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- “Tired of digging up potatoes and spudding up docks” - “A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain”
- “Now you’ve gay bracelets and bright feathers there” - “White flannel suit, silver shirt and gold tie”
21
Q
At An Inn and Gatsby
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- “severing sea and land” - “he stretched out his arms towards the dark water”
- “Palsied unto death the pane-fly’s tune” - “we drove on towards death in the cooling twilight”
22
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La Belle Dame and Gatsby
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- “Sing a faery’s song” - “that a voice was a deathless song”
- “So haggard and so woe-begone” - “he was one of these worn-out men”
23
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Non sum
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- “I was desolate and sick of an old passion” - “He was running down like an overwound clock”
- “When the feast is finished and the lamps expire there falls thy shadow” - “he broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers”
