Poetry quotes

Question 1

Dulce and Soldier comparison quotes

Answer 1

Soldier:
“In hearts at peace under an English heaven”
“all evil shed away, a pulse in the eternal mind”
“if I should die think only this of me”
Title of ‘the Soldier’ is anonymous
“a richer dust concealed”
“That there is some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England”
“Give somewhere back the thoughts by England given”
“England bore, shaped, made aware”
Dulce:
“watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;”
“he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
“bent double like old beggars under sacks” “coughing like hags”
“gas-shells dropping softly behind”
“towards our distant rest began to trudge”
“vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues”
“you would not tell with such high zest to children, ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie”

Question 2

To Autumn and Death of a Naturalist quotes
Theme: Nature

Answer 2

To Autumn:
“With fruits the vines that round the thatch eves run”
“conspiring with him how to load and bless”
“Until they think warm days will never cease”
“in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”
DoN:
“the flax-dam festered in the heart of the townland”
“poised like mud grenades”
“great slime kings”