poetry quotes Flashcards

(7 cards)

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when we two parted + neutral tones

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“pale grew thy cheek and cold” (WW2P),
“A pond edged with greyish leaves” (NT)
- no progress in relatonship
“Thy vows are all broken” (WW2P)
“over teddious riddles of years ago” (NT)
- lack of communication

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love’s philosophy + when we two parted

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“Thy vows are all broken” (WW2P)
“All things by law divine” (LP)
-religious imagery to manipulate the subject
SAME RHYME SCHEME
“Nothing in the world is single”(LP)
“why wert thou so dear?” (WW2P)
-Unrequited love

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Porphyria’s lover + farmer’s bride

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“with birds and rabbits and such as they”(FB)
“at that moment she was mine,mine fair”(PL)
-subject is powerless
““and strangled her. No pain she felt” (PL)
“more like a little frightened fay”(FB)
-sense of jeopardy

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sonnet 29 + letters from yorkshire

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“wild vines about a tree”
“in february, digging in his garden”
-nature imagery

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walking away + Mother, any distance

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“Anchor.Kite” (MAD)
“Love is proved in the letting go” (WW)
- parental normals to hold onto child
“Endless sky to fall or to fly” (MAD)
“Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away” (WW)

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before you were mine + eden rock

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“and now your ghost clatters towards me”(BYWM)
“They are waiting for me somewhere” (ER)
- presence of passed relatives
“Thousand eyes, fizzy movie tommorows” (BYWM)
“twenty-three in a sprigged dress” (ER)
-admiration for mother

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climbing my grandfather + follower

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“soft and white at this altitude” (CMG)
“i stumbled in his hobnailed wake” (f)
- Metaphors
“i decide to do it free, without a rope or net.”

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