Poetry quotes fill the blank Flashcards
(50 cards)
LONDON 1- “I wander…”
“I wander through each chartered street”
LONDON 2- “The mind forged…”
“The mind forged manacles I hear”
LONDON 3- “every blackening…”
“Every blackening church appalls”
LONDON 4- “runs in blood…”
“Runs in blood down palace walls”
LONDON 5- “And blights…”
“And blights with plagues the marriage hearse”
REMAINS 1- “On another occasion…”
“On another occasion we got sent out”
REMAINS 2- “I see every…”
“I see every round as it rips through his life”
REMAINS 3- “one of my mates…”
“One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body”
REMAINS 4- “and the drink…”
“And the drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
REMAINS 5- “but near to the knuckle…”
“But near to the knuckle, here and now, his bloody life in my bloody hands”
KAMIKAZE 1- “Her father…”
“Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword”
KAMIKAZE 2- “like a huge…”
“Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight”
KAMIKAZE 3- “the loose silver…”
“The loose silver of whitebait and once a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous”
KAMIKAZE 4- “only we children…”
“Only we children still chattered and laughed till gradually we too learned to be silent”
KAMIKAZE 5- “And sometimes…”
“And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had better the better way to die”
THE PRELUDE 1- “one summer evening…”
“One summer evening (led by her) I found a little boat tied to a willow tree”
THE PRELUDE 2- “The horizons…”
“The horizons upmost boundary far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
THE PRELUDE 3- “And growing still in…”
“And growing still in stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars”
THE PREULDE 4- “my brain worked with…”
“my brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being”
THE PRELUDE 5- “But huge and mighty…”
“But huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind day by day and were a trouble to my dreams”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 1- “storm…”
“Storm on the island” (title of poem)
STORM ON THE ISLAND 2- “sink walls in rock…”
“Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate. This wizened earth has never troubled us”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 3- “so that you listen to…”
“So that you listen to the thing you fear, forgetting that is pummels your house to”
STORM ON THE ISLAND 4- “you may think the sea is…”
“You may think the sea is company- exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”
