Quotes Flashcards
(31 cards)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Hardship of War and Perseverance
Poetic Technique: Caucophany
“Bent double like old beggars under sacks”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Inevitable Death
Poetic Technique: Juxtaposition (depersonifies death)
“Gas-shells dropping softly behind”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Chaos
Poetic Technique: Typograph, symbols
”Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: War/Death
Poetic Technique: Metaphor
“As under a green sea, I saw him drowning”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Death/War
Poetic Technique: Metaphor
“He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Hell
Poetic Technique: Word choice
“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Death
Poetic Techniques: Simile
“Obscene as cancer”
Dulce et Decorum Est
Theme: Anger
Poetic Technique: Polemic
“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”
Timothy Winters
Theme: War
Poetic Technique: Caucophany, Simile, Metaphor, Connotation
“Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: a blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Neglection
Poetic Technique: N/A
“He licks the pattern off his plate and he’s not even heard of the Welfare State.”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Neglection
Poetic Technique: Wordplay, Association, Sibilance
“Suez Street.”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Neglection
Poetic Technique: Polemic
“And they say there aren’t boys like him anymore.”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Lack of family
Poetic Technique: N/A
“Timothy’s dosed with an aspirin”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Neglection
Poetic Technique: Sibilance
“The welfare Worker lies awake but the law’s as tricky as a ten-foot snake”
Timothy Winters
Theme: Reflection/Prayer
Poetic Technique: Repetition
“Timothy Winters roars Amen!”
Midterm Break
Theme: Mourning
Poetic Technique: Show don’t tell
“I met my father crying— he had always taken funerals in his stride”
Midterm Break
Theme: Lack of understanding
Poetic Technique: Sibilance, Imagery
“Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest”
Midterm Break
Theme: Mourning
Poetic Technique: Juxtaposition, Euphonic+Cacophanic
“My mother held my hand in hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs”
Midterm Break
Theme: Death
Poetic Technique: Sibilance, Contrast
“Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside”
Midterm Break
Theme: Tragedy
Poetic Technique: Repetition
“A four-foot box, a foot for every year.”
The Thickness of Ice
Theme: Excitement/New beginnings
Poetic Technique: Foreshadowing, Pronoun ‘We’
“At first we’ll meet as friends.”
The Thickness of Ice
Theme: Relationships
Poetic Technique: Metaphor
“Like skaters testing the thickness of ice.”
The Thickness of Ice
Theme: Contentment
Poetic Technique: N/A
“The triple jumps and spins will become an old routine”
The Thickness of Ice
Theme: Inevitable Demise
Poetic Technique: Caucophany, Juxtaposition
“The creeping cracks will be ignored.”
