Poetry quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
Name quotes from the poem, The Manhunt
After passionate nights and intimate days, only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran though his face. (the rhyming couplets which implies romance are undercut by the cold realism of his condition)
only the would he let me explore, the blown hinge of his lower jaw.
only then could I picture the scan, the foetus of metal beneath his chest where the bullet had finally come to rest.
And finger and thumb the parachute silk of his punctured lung.
A sweating, unexploded mine buried deep in his mind, around which every nerve in his body had tightened and closed
then, only then, did I come close.(the poem is very sad but it has hope that he will recover his relationship and return to a sense of ease, t also highlight the importance of the mind and how ideas and emotions are more important than physical properties, the poem is romantic in that way
“Only then would he let me trace”“only then the would he let me explore” the reparation of only then implies time has passed and she is slowly getting closer to him
Give some context for the poem The Manhunt
It was written by Simon Armitage he was born in 1964, he studied geography at Portsmouth and was very concerned with social issues
Name quotes from the poem, London
I wander thro’ each chartr’d street, near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
In every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, the mind forg’d manacles I hear.
How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every black’ning church appalls; and the hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls
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Name quotes from the poem The soldier,
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Name quotes for the poem She walks in beauty
she walks in beauty like the night.
all that’s best of dark and bright.
Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies.
How pure.
The smile that wins, the tints that glow, but tell of days in goodness spent
A heart whose love is innocent!
A mind at peace with all below
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Lord Byron was known as a Byronic hero(named after himself) this meaning he was mad bad and dangerous to known
the poem was written in 1814 when lord Byron saw a woman of great beauty at a party
Name quote for the poem A wife in London
she sits in the tawny vapour that the city lanes have uprolled. pathetic fallacy
the fog hangs thicker
page full of his hoped return
and the new love that they would learn
Give context for the poem a wife in London
It was written by Thomas Hardy he lived from 1840 - 1928 he wrote story’s and poems and was very critical of the Boer wars which took place in south Africa, and lasted from 1899 - 1902
Ozymandias
tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive
boundless and bare the lone level of sands stretch far away
half sunk, a shattered visage lies. his broken face
context for Ozymandias
it was written is 1817 by percy bysshe shelley and was inspired by the statue of Pharaoh Ramses ll
