Poetry Quotations Flashcards
(36 cards)
Remains-opening line
‘On another occasion’
Remains-final line
‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
Remains-metaphor for the dead man
’His blood shadow stays on the street’
Remains-can’t cope and get rid of thoughts
‘And the drink and drugs wont flush him out’
Remains-moment of death
’And I see every round as it rips through his life’
Poppies-first line
‘Three days before Armistice Sunday’
Poppies-last line
‘I listened hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’
Poppies-metaphor of son being ok
’Later a single dove flew from the pear tree’
Poppies-simile for when son left
‘The world overflowing like a treasure chest’
Poppies- ‘I wanted to _____ my nose across the tip _____ ________ ________, play at being ______ like we did _______ you ______ ________’
graze tip of your nose Eskimos when were little
COTLB-first line
’Half a league, half a league, half a league onward
COTLB-last line
’Noble six hundred’
COTLB-metaphor for hellish environment x3
’Into the valley of Death’
‘Into the jaws of Death
‘Into the mouth of Hell’
COTLB-3 lines to show the troops were surrounded
‘Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Canon in front of them’
COTLB- sibilance for the violence
’Storm’d at with shot and shell’
Exposure-opening line
’Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knife us’
Exposure-closing line
’But nothing happens’
Exposure- finish- ‘Sudden successive….’
‘… bullets streak the silence’
Exposure-reference to the weathers affects
’Rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy’
Exposure- lines about death x2
’We turn back to our dying’
‘For love of God seems dying’
War photographer-Final line
’From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care’
War Photographer- opening line
’In his darkroom he is finally alone
With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
War photographer-double meaning about the audience
‘The reader eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers’
War photographer- Hundred of agonies in…’’…
’… black and white from which the editor will pick out five or six’
