Poetry Quotes

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Before You Were Mine - Meaning.
'Even then/ I wanted the winking girl in Portobello ... before I was born."
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The Farmer's Bride - Meaning.
"She sleeps up in the attic there/ Alone, poor maid"
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Before you were mine - Imagery.
"Cha cha cha! You'd teach me the steps." "you sparkle and waltz"
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The Farmer's Bride - Imagery.
"a little frightened fay" "we chased her"
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Before You Were Mine - Structure.
"I knew you would dance/ like that"
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The Farmer's Bride - Structure.
"Three summers since" and "Christmas-time"
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Before You Were Mine - Language.
"Even then/I wanted the bold girl"
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The Farmer's Bride - Language.
"flying like a hare" and "like a mouse"
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Porphyria's Lover - Meaning.
"I propped her head up as before"
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When we two parted - Meaning.
'When we two parted/ in silence and tears"
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Porphyria's Lover - Imagery.
The sullen wind was soon awake,/ It tore the elm-tops down for spite"
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When we two parted - Imagery.
"sever" and "half-broken"
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Porphyria's Lover - Structure.
'untied her hat'
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When we two parted - Structure.
'broken' 'fame' 'spoken' 'shame'
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Porphyria's Lover - Language.
'Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss' -
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When we two parted - Language.
'Why wert thou so dear?'
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Love's Philosophy - Meaning.
'The mountains mingle with the river.' 'The winds of Heaven mix for ever'
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Sonnet 29 - Meaning.
'I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.'
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Love's Philosophy - Imagery.
'And the waves clasp one another' 'And the sunlight clasps the earth'
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Sonnet 29 - Imagery.
'as wild vines, about a tree, put out broad leaves'
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Love's Philosophy - Structure.
'single' 'divine' 'mingle' 'thine'
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Sonnet 29 - Structure.
'my thoughts do twine and bud/ about thee'
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Love's Philosophy - Language.
'the mountains kiss high heaven' 'moonbeans kiss the sea'
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Sonnet 29 - Language.
'because' and 'breathe'
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Neutral Tones - Meaning
‘grin of bitterness’
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Winter Swans - Meaning
. ‘I noticed our hands, that had, somehow,/swum the distance between us’
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Neutral Tones - Imagery
‘as though chidden by God’
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Winter Swans - Imagery
'waterlogged earth’ and two days of rain’
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Neutral Tones - Structure
'deceives’ ‘me’ ‘tree’ and ‘leaves’
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Winter Swans - Structure
'then a break/ in which we walked’
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Neutral Tones - Language
'The smile on the mouth was the deadest thing’
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Winter Swans - Language
the clouds had given their all’ / ‘waterlogged earth/ gulping for breath’
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Letters from Yorkshire - Meaning
'is your life more real than mine because you dig and sow?’
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Walking Away - Meaning
'that hesitant figure, eddying away’
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Letters from Yorkshire - Imagery
'digging his garden, planting his potatoes’
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Walking Away - Imagery.
'like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’ ‘like a satellite/ wrenched from its orbit’
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Letters from Yorkshire - Structure.
'of that other world/ pouring air and light’
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Walking Away - Structure.
'like a satellite/wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away’
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Letters from Yorkshire - Language.
'his knuckles singing’ 'blank screen’
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Walking Away - Language.
'the scorching ordeals’
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Card 2

Front

The Farmer's Bride - Meaning.

Back

"She sleeps up in the attic there/ Alone, poor maid"

Card 3

Front

Before you were mine - Imagery.

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

The Farmer's Bride - Imagery.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Before You Were Mine - Structure.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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