Poetry Quotes

Question 1

The flea is you an I, and this// Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.

Answer 1

The Flea

The flea contains their blood- they unite in the flea

Question 2

It sucks me first, and now it sucks thee

Answer 2

The Flea

Question 3

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since// Purpled by thy nail in blood of innocence?

Answer 3

The Flea

Killed the flea- the woman is now not innocent

Question 4

Just so much honour, when thou yield’st to me// Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

Answer 4

The Flea

Honour, if she can kill a flea, how much honour will she now lose when she sleeps with him

Question 5

His Grace! impossible! what dead!

Answer 5

A Satirical Elegy

Irony and hyperbole

Question 6

The last loud trump must wake him now

Answer 6

A Satirical Elegy

Question 7

Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings

Answer 7

A Satirical Elegy

Question 8

Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung

Answer 8

A Satirical Elegy

Question 9

We sit bousing at the nappy

Answer 9

Tam O’Shanter

Question 10

Gathering her brows like a gathering storm

Answer 10

Tam O’Shanter

Question 11

But pleasures are like poppies spread //You seize the flower, its bloom is shed

Answer 11

Tam O’Shanter

Question 12

“Weel done, Cutty-sark!”

Answer 12

Tam O’Shanter

Question 13

Behind her, a hunk of coast, a// Hotel with palms // seemed to expand from her thighs

Answer 13

Sunny Prestatyn

Question 14

Set her fairly astride// tuberous cock and balls

Answer 14

Sunny Prestatyn

Question 15

She was too good for this life

Answer 15

Sunny Prestatyn

Question 16

Now Fight Cancer is there

Answer 16

Sunny Prestatyn

Question 17

Poor chap, he had and obsession with // Triangles

Answer 17

Not My Best Side

Question 18

He made me feel like he was ready to // Eat me

Answer 18

Not My Best Side

Question 19

Don’t you want to carry out the roles // That sociology and myth have designed for you?

Answer 19

Not My Best Side

Question 20

You’re in my way

Answer 20

Not My Best Side

Question 21

My Rival’s house is peopled with many surfaces. Ormolu and gilt

Answer 21

My Rival’s House

Question 22

Soon my rival, // capped tooth, polished nail // will fight, fight foul for her survival

Answer 22

My Rival’s House

Question 23

This son she bore- first blood to her- never, never can escape scot free // sour potluck of family

Answer 23

My Rival’s House

Question 24

She won’t // give up.

Answer 24

My Rival’s House

Question 25

That's him pushing the stone up the hill, the jerk

Answer 25

Mrs Sisyphus

Question 26

That fechin' stone's no sooner up// than it's rolling back // all the way down

Answer 26

Mrs Sisyphus

Question 27

But I lie alone in the dark, // feeling like Noah's wife did

Answer 27

Mrs Sisyphus

Question 28

He is giving one hundred percent and more to his work

Answer 28

Mrs Sisyphus