Texts Flashcards
(27 cards)
The Fall of Arthur (Tolkien)
this is a geriatric Arthur wanting another go at battle
alliterative verse
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray)
who’s going to miss me when I’m gone?
Iambic Pentameter
Resolution & Independence (Wordsworth)
a poem about anxiety
God’s Grandeur
“the world is charged with the grandeur of God”
When we lose contact with the world, we lost contact with the divine
Wuthering Heights (sylvia Plath)
Free Verse
nature is scary when you’re lost; nature is calling her to die
Jubilate Agno (smart)
written from an insane asylum, seeing God/praising God for everything
Naming of Cats (Eliot)
the ineffable God gives the ineffable name
London (Blake)
mind-forged manacles, sense of alienation
London’s Morning (Robinson)
seeing London from a carriage, removed from everything
The City in the Sea (Poe)
an Upside-down city ruled over by death. There are no people and the light seems to come down from above
Manahatta (Whitman)
A broad and flying summary of everything good about New York
King’s Cross Station (Chesterton)
A strange vision of a train station “God! Shall we ever honour what we are”
Sonnet 18
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” His love is more beautiful than anything
Sonnet 55
The poem is “the living record of your memory”
Sonnet 60
“So do our minutes hasten to their end” we’re all gonna die… but maybe my poem will survive
Sonnet 116
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments” 1 Cor 13 love
Sonnet 129
The danger of lust “Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust”
Sonnet 130
My mistress is ugly and nothing about her is good “and yet by heaven I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare”
Bright Star (Keats)
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” The stars are eternally watching and unchangable
Composed upon a Westminster Bridge (Wordsworth)
A vision of the city in the dawn “all that mighty heart is laying still”
As Kingfishers catch fire (Hopkins)
“Christ plays in ten thousand places” Creation reflects the glory of God
Remeberance (Rossetti)
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad” I’m going to die, my love, so forget me
I Being born a Woman and Distressed (St. Vincent Millay)
I have a crush and since I’m a woman, I kinda hafta give in, but “I find this frenzy insufficient reason for conversation when we meet again”
The Hunting of the Snark (Carrol)
A bunch of odd characters (none of whom can perform their particular duty) hunt a Snark, but it’s a Boojum
