Quotes Flashcards
(6 cards)
tissue quotes
“the back of the koran… names & histories”, “maps too”
humans are misguided in believing temporary papers show the truth and are permanent
“raise a structure/ of paper smoothed snd stroken and thinned to be transparent”
everything is transcient
“paper thinned by age or touching”
reflects the futility of life - her husband
“the shapes that pride can make”
-mankinds arrogance in believing everything we make is permanent
“if buildings were paper… how easily they fall away on a sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind”
-concrete structure fase away
Checking out me history quotes
“Dem tell me/ Dem tell me”
repetition-anger and frustration at the british, reflects monotony of what he was taught
dem-written phonetically to mimic his dialect, reflects his pride in his culture and refusal to conform to society
juxtaposition between dem and me- victimised, outnumbered
tell-force fed information
“Bandage up me eye with me own history/Blind me to my own identity”
Bandage-wounded, bilabial plosive alliteration, violent lengths to sustain power
Blind-^ -hyperbolic metaphor - disability, physically oppressed, history is deliberately being hidden from him, accusatory
“Touissant L’Overture”
“Nanny de maroon”
“Caribs and de Arawaks too”
“mountain dream/ fire-woman struggle/ hopeful stream/ to freedom river”
nature imagery connotes purity and eternity demonstrating blakc people’s resilience
Mary Seacole:
“a healing star/ among the wounded/a yellow sunrise/ to the dying”
colour imagery-yellow connotes happiness
natural light imagery juxtaposed to artificial light of florence nightengale and she lamp
“But not I checking out me own history/I carving out me identity”
carving-putting in the effort on his journey of self discovery, freeing himself from societal control
Kamikaze quotes
“her father embarked st sunrise with a flask of warer, a samurai sword”
sibilance-japanese history, divine wind
“a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one way journey into history”
incantations-spell, glorified propaganda
“green-blue translucent sea”, “a figure of 8”, “dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun” grace of nature, idyllic, beauty of nature has an impact
“which had been the better way ti die” poignant
The Prelude quotes
“One summer evening (led by her)”
-idyllic, romantic poet
her-personifies, allusion to mother nature, contrasts role of humans vs nature bc humans nurture people and nature nurtures a planet -superiority
“it was an act of stealth/ And troubled pleasure”
troubled pleasure- oxymoron, feels entitled to enjoy nature
stealth-mankind is trespassing
“a huge peak, black and huge”
repetition of huge signifies nature’s dominance
hyperbole-natures supremacy
black-colour imagery- dark, deathly, gothic, monstrous, evil
“with trembling oars, i turned and through the silent water stole my way back to the covert of the willow tree”
silent water-nature remained calm, constant power&strength, nature’s complexity
-cyclical structure -returning to conforting nature, reflects natures cycle of seasons
enjambed-breathless fear
Storm on the Island Quotes
“this wizened earth”-personified
“nor are there trees/which might prove company when it blows full/Blast”
blast-capitalised, power of storm, bullets, terrorism
nor-isolation, highlights vulnerability
-human and nature can work together-companionship
“you know what i mean” colloquial, normalised
“exploding comfortably”
oxymoron-sea accustomed to its immense power, indifferent to its negative effects
“spits like a tame cat turned savage”
simile-sea turned threatening and dangerous, contrasting adjectives reflects unpredictability of weather&war, mankind has failed to tame nature
“strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”
-ends questioning the rationality of human fear
huge nothing-oxymoron, anticlimactic, emphasises how violence and conflict are unnecessary
Quotes from Remains
“On another occasion we get sent out/to tackle looters raiding a bank”
-violence is recurrent- reality of war
sent out-orders
-opens in media rares, mimics how soldiers are emotionally unprepared for war
“probabky armed, possibly not”-moral dilemma, doubt
“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind/ so all three of us open fire”
myself-ownership, war puts ordinary people in god-like positions, comradery of war
all-victimises victim
fire-religious imagery, fire=hell, pain of ptsd -feel like the devil
“i see every round as it rips through his life-i see broad daylight on the other side”
present tense-reliving it
rips-casually visceral, war desensitises you,
life seems fragile like paper-chremamorphism
-colloquial vs emotional language are juxtaposed
“his blood shadow stays on the street abd out in patrol/ i walk right over it week after week”
sibilance-unsettling, reminder gunshots ripping through his body
week after week-relentless remorse
stays-death stains persons conscience
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
alludes to image of blood in macbeth
