Poetry Flashcards
(10 cards)
(Nature1) Death of a Naturalist quotes
B - “strong gauze of sound around the smell”
“warm thick slobber”
(beauty of nature)
M - fill jampotfuls of the jellied specks”
“Miss Walls would tell us”
(childhood view)
M - yellow in the sun and brown in rain”
Then one hot day when fields were rank”
(passage of time)
E - “I sickened, turned, and ran”
“spawn would clutch it”
(disgusted view)
(Nature2) The Prelude
B - “through the twilight blaz’d”
“time of rapture”
(beauty of nature)
M - “The Pack loud bellowing and the hunted hare”
“through the dark and cold we flew”
(childhood)
M - “leafless trees”
“Icy crag Tinkled like iron”
(negatives of nature)
E - “stars, Eastward, were sparkling clear”
“orange sky of evening died away”
(ideas about night)
(Power1) Ozymandias
B - “I met a traveller from an antique land”
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
(journey + discovers statue)
M - “shattered visage”
“survive, stamped on these lifeless things”
(power falls over time)
M - “King of Kings”
“ye Mighty and despair!”
(power of leaders + bad)
E - “colossal wreck”
“sands stretch far away”
(nature wins)
1 stanza poem = 1 leader
(Power2) Hawk Roosting
B - “I sit in the top of the wood”
“hooked head and hooked feet”
(power of hawk)
M - “are of advantage to me”
“I hold Creation in my food”
(no weakness)
M - “I kill where I please because it is all mine”
“My manners are tearing off heads”
(death)
E - “The sun is behind me”
“I am going to keep things like this”
(hawk’s superiority)
(War1) The Manhunt
B - “the frozen river which ran through his face”
“explore the blown hinge of his lower jaw”
(face damage)
M - “damaged, porcelain collar-bone”
“parachute silk of his punctured lung”
(internal damage)
M - “feel the hurt of his grazed heart”
“foetus of metal beneath his chest”
(still effected)
E - “unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
“every nerve in his body had tightened and closed”
(PTSD)
2 lines for each paragraph = 2 partners
(War2) Dulce et Decorum Est
B - “bent double, like old beggars”
“coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”
(instant effects)
M - “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!”
“under a green sea, I saw him drowning”
(death)
M - “Behind the wagon that we flung him in”
“the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs”
(1st hand witnesses)
E - “of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues”
“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est”
(war is bad)
(Love1) Cozy Apologia
B - “- for Fred”
“I could pick anything and think of you”
(her love)
M - “shooting arrows to the heart”
“silver stirrups” / “chainmail glistienng”
(cliché love)
M - “sweet with a dark and hollow centre. Floyd’s”
“hurricane is nudging up the coast”
(hurricane disrupt)
E - “simply satisfied with what’s good for us”
“I fill this stolen time with you”
(reinforces love)
(Love2) Valentine
B - “Not a red rose or a satin heart”
“I give you an onion”
(not cliché)
M - “like a lover”
“It promises light”
(general love)
M - “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
“possessive and faithful”
(relationships)
E - “platinum rings shrink to a wedding-ring”
“cling to your fingers, cling to your knife”
(wedding)
(Place1) Living Space
B - “just not enough straight lines”
“Nothing is flat or parallel”
(slums)
M - “Nails clutched at open seams”
“Eggs in a wire basket”
(poverty)
M - “Whole structure leans dangerously towards the miraculous”
“rough frame, someone has squeezed a living space”
(dangerous)
E - “slanted universe gathering light”
“bright, thin walls of faith”
(hope)
(Place2) London
B - “I wander thro’ each charter’d street”
“marks of weakness, marks of woe”
(1st discovery)
M - “In every cry of every man”
“In every Infant’s cry of fear”
(tears + conditions)
M - “black’ning Church appals”
“Runs in blood down Palace walls”
(against monarchy + church)
E - “youthful Harlot’s curse”
“blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
(Poor Mariages)
