poetry Flashcards
(273 cards)
1
Q
“on another occasion”
A
remains opener
2
Q
“probably armed…
A
…possibly not” -repeated in remains
3
Q
” myself somebody else and somebody else”
“three of a kind”
A
remains
4
Q
“I see every round as it…
A
…rips through his life” - remains
5
Q
“I see broad…
A
…daylight on the other side”-remains
6
Q
“sort of…
A
…inside out”-remains
7
Q
“pain itself…
A
…the image of agony”- remains
8
Q
“tosses his…
A
…guts back into his body”- remains
9
Q
“end of story, except not really”
A
remains
10
Q
“his blood shadow…
A
..stays on the street and out on patrol i walk right over it week after week”- remains
11
Q
“then im home on leave…
A
…but i blink”- remains
12
Q
“and the drink and the drugs…
A
…wont flush him out”- remains
13
Q
“hes here in my head…
A
…when i close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines”-remains
14
Q
“not left for dead in some…
A
…distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand”- remains
15
Q
“near to the…
A
…knuckle, here and now”- remains
16
Q
“his bloody…
A
…life in my bloody hands”- remains closer
17
Q
“in his darkroom he is finally alone”
A
war photographer opener
18
Q
“with spools…
A
…of suffering set out in ordered rows”-war photographer
19
Q
“as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a mass. belfast. beirut. phnom penh. all flesh is grass”
A
war photographer
20
Q
“he has a job to do”
A
war photogrpaher
21
Q
“solutions slop in trays beneath his hands…
A
…which did not tremble then though seem to now”- war photographer
22
Q
“ordinary pain which…
A
…simple weather can dispel”- war photographer
23
Q
“fields which dont explode beneath the feet of running…
A
…children in a nightmare heat”- war photographer
24
Q
“a stangers features faintly start to…
A
…twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost”- war photographer
25
"he remembers the cries of this mans wife"
war photographer
26
"he has a job to do"
war photographer
27
"blood stained into..
...foreign dust"- war photographer
28
"a hundred...
...agonies in black and white"- war photographer
29
"the readers eyeballs prick with tears...
...between the bath and pre-lunch beers"- war photographer
30
"from the aeroplane he stays impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care"
War photographer closer
31
"suddenly he awoke and was running"
bayonet charge opener
32
"stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge that...
...dazzled with rifle fire"-bayonet charge
33
"bullets smacking...
...the belly out of the air"-bayonet charge
34
"he lugged a rifle...
...numb as a smashed arm"-bayonet charge
35
"the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye...
...sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"-bayonet charge
36
"in bewilderment then he almost stopped"
bayonet charge
37
"in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he...
... the hand pointing that second?"- bayonet charge
38
"he was running like a man who has..
...jumped up in the dark and runs"-bayonet charge
39
"listening between his footfalls...
...for the reason of his still running"-bayonet charge
40
"his foot hung like statuary in mid-stride"
bayonet charge
41
"threw up a yellow hare that...
...rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle , its mouth wide open silent, its eyes standing out"- bayonet charge
42
"king, honour, human dignity, etcetera...
...dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm" -bayonet charge
43
"to get out of that blue crackling air"
bayonet charge
44
"our brains ache in the..
...merciless iced east winds that knive us..."-exposure opener
45
"we keep awake because...
...the night is silent"- exposure
46
"low drooping flares confuse our...
...memory of the salient..."- exposure
47
"worried by...
...silence"- exposure
48
"but nothing happens"
exposure
49
"mad gusts...
...tugging on the wire"- exposure
50
"like twitching...
...agonies of men among its brambles"- exposure
51
"northward,incessantly...
...the flickering gunnery rumbles"- exposure
52
"What are we doing here?"
exposure
53
"the poignant mysery of dawn...
...begins to grow..."- exposure
54
"we only know...
...war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy."- exposure
55
"dawn massing in the east her...
...melancholy army"- exposure
56
"sudden successive strikes of bullets streak the silence"
exposure
57
"less deadly than...
...the air that shudders black with snow"- exposure
58
"flowing flakes that flock"
exposure
59
"we watch them wandering..
...up and down the wind's nonchalance"- exposure
60
"pale flakes with fingering stealth come...
...feeling for our faces"- exposure
61
"deep into grassier ditches...
...so we drowse, sun-dozed"- exposure
62
"littered with blossoms trickling where...
...the blackbird fusses"- exposure
63
"-is it that we are dying?"
exposure
64
"slowly our ghosts drag home"
exposure
65
"shutters and doors all closed...
...:on us the doors are closed"- exposure
66
"since we believe...
...not otherwise can kind fires burn"- exposure
67
"nor ever suns smile true on..
...child, or field, or fruit"- exposure
68
"for God's invincible spring..
...our love is made afraid"- exposure
68
"therefore,not loath, we lie out here;...
...therefore were born"- exposure
68
"for love of God seems dying"
exposure
68
"tonight this frost will fasten...
...on this mud and us"- exposure
69
"the burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, pause over...
...half- known faces"- exposure
70
"all their eyes are ice"
exposure
71
"three days before armistice sunday"
poppies opener
72
"poppies had already been placed on...
...individual war graves"-poppies
72
"before you left"
poppies
73
"selotape bandaged around my hand, I rounded up as many white cat hairs as i could"
poppies
73
"crimped petals, spasms of paper red disrupting a blockade of...
...yellow bias binding around your blazer"-poppies
74
"smoothed down your shirts upturned collar"
poppies
75
"steeled the...
...softening of my face"-poppies
76
"i resisted the imulse to run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair"
poppies
77
"all my words flattened...
...rolled, turned into felt"-poppies
78
"slowly melting...
...i was brave, as i walked with you"-poppies
79
(to the front door) " threw it open...
...the world overflowing like a treasure chest"-poppies
80
"a split second...
...and you were away, intoxicated"-poppies
81
"after you'd gone"
poppies
82
"i went into your bedroom, released..
...a song bird from its cage"-poppies
83
"I met a traveller from an antique land"
Ozymandias opener
84
"two vast and...
...trunkless legs of stone"-Ozymandias
85
"half sunk, a..
...shattered visage lies"-Ozymandias
86
"whose frown and wrinkled lip, and...
...sneer of cold command"-Ozymandias
87
"its sculptor...
...well those passions read"-Ozymandias
88
"the hand that...
...mocked them and the heart that fed"-Ozymandias
89
"my name is...
Ozymandias, king of kings"-Ozymandias
90
"look on my works...
...ye mighty and despair"-Ozymandias
91
"nothing besides remains"
ozymandias
92
"Round the decay of that...
...colossal wreck"-Ozymandias
93
"the lone and level sands stretch far away"
Ozymandias closer
94
I wander through each chartered street"
London opener
94
"and mark in every face i meet...
...marks of weakness, marks of woe"-London
94
"near where the...
...chartered Thames does flow"-London
94
"in every cry of every man"
London
94
"in every voice, in every ban"
London
94
"in every infant's cry of fear"
London
95
"Every black'ning...
...church appalls"-London
95
"and the hapless soldiers sigh...
...runs in blood down palace walls"-London
95
"The mind-forged...
...manacles I hear"-London
95
"how the chimney-sweeper's cry"
London
96
"but most through midnight streets I hear"
London
96
"how the youthful...
...harlot's curse"-London
97
"Blasts the new-born...
...infant's tear"-London
98
"and blights with plagues the ...
...marriage hearse"-London closer
99
"there was once a country...i left it as a child"
Emmigree opener
100
"my memory of it is...
...sunlight clear"- Emigree
101
"for it seems i never saw it in...
...that november"- Emigree
102
"the worst news i receive of it cannot break my original view...
...the bright, filled paperweight"- Emigree
103
"it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants but...
...i am branded by an impression of sunlight"- Emigree
104
"the white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow even clearer as...
...time rolls its tanks"- Emigree
105
"and the frontiers...
...rise between us, close like waves"- Emigree
106
"that child's vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll, opens...
...and spills a grammar"- Emigree
107
"soon i shall have every coloured molecule of it"
Emigree
108
"it may be a lie now...
...banned by the state"- Emigree
109
"but i cant get it off my tongue...
...It tastes of sunlight"- Emigree
110
"my city comes to me"
Emigree
111
"It lies down in front of me...
...docile as paper"- Emigree
112
"i comb its hair and love its shining eyes"
Emigree
113
"my city takes me...
...dancing through the city of wall"- Emigree
114
"They accuse me of...
...absence, they circle me"- Emigree
115
"They accuse me of being...
...dark in their free city"- Emigree
116
"my city hides behind me...
...they mutter death"- Emigree
117
"and my shadow falls as...
...evidence of sunlight"- Emigree closer
118
"half a league, half a league, half a league onward"
COLB opener
119
" the valley...
...of death"-COLB
120
"rode the six hundred"
COLB
121
"forward the...
Light Brigade!"-COLB
122
"charge for the...
...guns! he said:"-COLB
123
"was there a...
...man dismay'd"-COLB
124
"not tho' the...
solider knew"-COLB
125
"someone had...
...blunder'd"-COLB
126
"theirs not to make relpy...
...theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die:"-COLB
127
"canon to the right of them, canon to the left of them, canon in front of them"
COLB
128
"volley'd and...
...thunder'd "-COLB
129
"storm'd at with...
...shot and shell"-COLB
130
"boldly they rode...
...and well"-COLB
131
"into the jaws..
...of Death"-COLB
132
"into the mouth...
....of hell"-COLB
133
"flash'd all their sabres...
...bare"-COLB
134
"flash'd as they turn'd in air"
COLB
135
"sabring the gunners there"
COLB
136
"All the world wonder'd"
COLB
137
"plunged in the....
...battery smoke"-COLB
138
"right thro the line they broke...
...;cossack and russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke"-COLB
139
"shatter'd...
...and sunder'd"-COLB
140
"but not...
...Not the six hundred"-COLB
141
"fought so well"
COLB
142
"Came thro' the...
...jaws of death"-COLB
143
"back from the...
...mouth of hell"-COLB
144
"all that was left of them,...
...lef tof six hundred"-COLB
145
"when can their...
...glory fade?"-COLB
146
"honour the...
...charge they made!"-COLB
147
"honour the...
...light brigade"-COLB
148
Noble six hundred!
COLB closer
149
Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me
Checking out me history opener
150
"bandage up me...
...eye with me own history"-Checking out me history
151
"bind me to...
...me own identity"-Checking out me history
152
"1066..
...and all dat"-Checking out me history
153
"dick whittington ...
...and he cat"-Checking out me history
154
"no dem...
...never tell me about dat"-Checking out me history
155
"de man who discovered the balloon...
...and de cow who jump over the moon"-Checking out me history
156
"lord nelson and waterloo"
checking out me history
157
columbus and 1492
checking out me history
158
"dem tell me about florence nightingale and she lamp and how...
...robin hood used to camp"-Checking out me history
159
"but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole"
checking out me history
160
"dem tell me what...
...dem want to tell me""-Checking out me history
161
"but know i checking...
...out me own history I carving out my own identity"-Checking out me history closer
162
"one summer evening (led by her)
Prelude opener
163
164
"straight i...
...unloosed her chain"-prelude
164
"It was an act of stealth and
...troubled pleasure"-prelude
165
"small circles glittering..
...idly in the moonlight"-prelude
166
167
"until they melted all into one track...
...of sparkling light"-prelude
168
"like one who rows, proud of his skill...
...to reach a chosen point"-prelude
169
"with an unswerving line..
...i fixed my view upon the summit of a craggy ridge"-prelude
170
"horizon's utmost boundary"
prelude
171
"far above was nothing but...
...the stars and the grey sky"-prelude
172
"heaving through the water...
...like a swan"-prelude
173
"a huge peak....
...black and huge"-prelude
174
"as if with voluntary...
...power instinct , upreared its head"-prelude
175
176
"i struck...
...and struck again"-prelude
177
" and growing still in stature the grim shape...
...towered up between me and the stars"-prelude
177
"with purpose of its own and...
...measured motion like a living thing"-prelude
178
"strode after me"
prelude
179
"with trembling oars...
...i turned and through the silent water stole my way"-prelude
180
"in grave and ...
...serious mood"-prelude
181
"for many days, my brain ...
...worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being"-prelude
182
"o'er my thoughts there hung a...
...darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion"-prelude
183
"no familiar shapes remained...
...no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields"-prelude
184
"but huge and might forms, that do not live...
...like livng men"-prelude
185
"moved slowly through the mind by day and were a...
...trouble to my dreams"-prelude closer
186
"thats my last duchess painted on the wall"
my last duchess opener
187
"looking as if...
...she were alive"-my last duchess
188
"i call that piece...
...a wonder now"-my last duchess
189
"fra pandolf"
my last duchess
190
"will't please...
...you sit and look at her?"-my last duchess
191
"for never read strangers like you that...
...pictured countenance"-my last duchess
192
"the depth and...
...passion of its earnest glance"-my last duchess
193
"(since none put by the curtain...
...i have drawn for you, but it)"-my last duchess
194
"if they durst"
my last duchess
195
"sir, 'twas not her husbands presence only...
...called that spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek"-my last duchess
196
"her mantle...
...laps over my lady's wrist too much"-my last duchess
197
"paint must never hope to reproduce the...
...faint half flush that dies along her throat"-my last duchess
198
"such stuff was courtesy she thought...
...and cause enough for calling up that spot of joy"-my last duchess
199
"she had a heart-how shall i say-?...
...too soon made glad, too easily impressed"-my last duchess
200
"she liked what'er she looked on...
...and her looks went everywhere"-my last duchess
201
"'twas all one!...
...my favour at her breast, the dropping of the daylight in the west, the bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her, the white mule she rode with round the terrace"-my last duchess
202
"all and each would...
...draw from her alike apporving speech, or blush at leat."-my last duchess
203
"as if she ranked..
...my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old-name with anybody's gift"-my last duchess
204
"who'd stoop...
...to blame this sort of trifling"-my last duchess
205
"if she let...
...herself be lessoned so"-my last duchess
205
"i choose...
...never to stoop"-my last duchess
206
"oh sir she smiled no doubt when'er i passed her;...
...but who passed without much the same smile?"-my last duchess
207
"i gave commands;...
...then all smiles stopped together"-my last duchess
208
"as if alive"
my last duchess
209
"dowry will be disallowed;... though his fair daughter's self as i avowed at starting...
...is my object"-my last duchess
210
"notice neptune though, taming a sea horse, thought a rarity, which Claus of Innsbuck cast in bronze...
...for me!"-my last duchess closer
211
"we are prepared:...
...we build our houses squat"- storm on the island opener
212
"this wizened earth has never...
...troubled us with hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks or stooks that can be lost"- storm on the island
213
214
"nor are there trees...
...which might prove company"- storm on the island
215
"when it blows full blast:...
...you know what i mean"- storm on the island
216
"tragic chorus"
storm on the island
217
"you can listen to the thing you fear...
...forgetting that it pummels your house too"- storm on the island
218
"no trees...
...no natural shelter"- storm on the island
219
"you might think that the sea is company...
...exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"- storm on the island
220
"the flung spray..
...hits the very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage"- storm on the island
221
"we just sit tight"
storm on the island
222
"bombarded...
...by the empty air"- storm on the island
223
"strange...
...it is a huge nothing that we fear"- storm on the island closer
224
"paper that lets the light shine through"
tissue opener
225
"this is what could alter things"
tissue
226
"paper thinned...
....by age or touching"-tissue
227
"the kind you find in...
...well used books"-tissue
228
"the back of the....
...Koran where a hand has written in the manes and histories, who was born to whom"-tissue
229
"the height and weight...
...who died where and how, on which sepia date"-tissue
230
"pages smoothed and stroked...
....turned transparent with attention"-tissue
231
"if buildings were paper..
...i might feel their drift"-tissue
232
"maps too. ...
...the sun shines through their borderlines"-tissue
233
"fine slips from...
....grocery shops"-tissue
234
"might fly our lives...
....like paper kites"-tissue
235
"luminous script"
tissue
236
"and never...
...wish to build again with brick"-tissue
237
"but let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths...
...through the shapes that prude can make"-tissue
238
"with living tissue...
...raise a structure never meant to last"-tissue
239
"of paper smoothed...
...and stroked and thinned to be transparent"-tissue
240
"turned into your skin"
tissue closer
241
"her father embarked at sunrise"
kamikaze opener
242
"with a flask of water...
...a samurai sword in the cockpit"- kamikaze
243
"a shaven head full...
....of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history"- kamikaze
244
"recounting it later to her children"
kamikaze
245
"little fishing boats...
...strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"- kamikaze
246
"like a huge flag...
...waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight"- kamikaze
247
"the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards then sun"
kamikaze
248
"remembered how he and his brothers...
....waiting on the shore built cairns of pearl-grey pebbles"- kamikaze
249
"and though he came back...
....my mother never spoke again in his presence"- kamikaze
249
"and once a tuna...
...the dark prince, muscular, dangerous"- kamikaze
250
" nor did she...
...meet his eyes"- kamikaze
251
"and the neighbours too...
...they treated him as though he no longer existed"- kamikaze
252
"only we children..
...still chattered and laughed"- kamikaze
253
"till gradually...
...we too learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned"- kamikaze
254
"this was no longer the father we loved"
kamikaze
255
"and sometimes she said...
...he must have wondered which had been the better way to die"- kamikaze closer
