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45 Cards in this Set
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Robert Frost |
"at the word, the saw/ as if to prove saws knew what supper meant/ leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap--/He must have given the hand." |
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Robert Frost Mending Wall |
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall" |
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Robert Frost Mending Wall |
"He only says 'Good fences make good neighbors'" |
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Carl Sandberg Chicago |
"They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen/your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys." |
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Carl Sandberg Grass |
"I am the grass/ Let me work" |
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Wallace Stevens The Snow Man |
"One must have a mind of winter" |
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Wallace Stevens The Snow Man |
"For the listener, who listens to the snow/And, nothing himself, beholds/Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." |
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Wallace Stevens The Anecdote of the Jar |
"It took dominion everywhere. / The jar was gray and bare. /It did not give of bird or bush, / Like nothing else in Tennessee." |
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Susan Glaspell Trifles |
"County Attourney: No Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women. If there was some definite thing. Something to show--something to make a story about--a thing that would connect up with this strange way of doing it--" |
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Susan Glaspell Trifles |
"Those towels get dirty awful quick. Men's hands aren't always as clean as they might be." |
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Ezra Pound A Pact |
"It was you that broke the new wood/ Now is a time for carving." |
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Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro |
"The apparition of these faces in the crowds; / Petals on a wet, black bough." |
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William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow |
"so much depends/ upon / a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain / water / beside the white/ chickens" |
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H.D. Oread |
"Whirl up, sea--/ whirl your pointed pines,/ splash your great pines/ on our rocks,/ hurl your green over us,/ cover us with your pools of fir." |
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H.D. Helen |
"could love indeed the main,/ only if she were laid,/ white ash amid funereal cypresses." |
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T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
"And I have known the eyes already, known them all--/ the eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, / and when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,/ When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,/ Then how should I begin/ To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?/ And how should I presume?" |
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T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas." |
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T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each./ I do not think they will sing to me." |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited |
"His first feeling was one of awe that he had actually, in his mature years, stolen a tricycle and pedaled Lorraine all over the Etoile between the small hours and dawn. In retrospect it was a nightmare. Locking out Helen didn't fit in with any other act of his life, but the tricycle incident did--it was one of many. How many weeks or months of dissipation to arrive at that condition of utter irresponsibility?" |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited |
"Somehow, an unwelcome encounter. They liked him because he was functioning, because he was serious; they wanted to see him, because he was stronger than they were now, because they wanted to draw a certain sustenance from his strength." |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited |
'''She's forgotten how hard I worked for seven years there,' Charlie said. 'She remembers one night.' 'There's another thing.' Lincoln hesitated. 'While you and Helen were tearing around Europe throwing money awayy, we were just getting along, I didn't touch any of the prosperity because I never got ahead enough to carry anything but my insurance. I think Marion felt there was some kind of injustice in it--you not even working toward the end, and getting richer and richer.' 'It went just as quick as it came,' said Charlie." |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited |
"I heard that you lost a lot in the crash. I did, and he added grimly, but I lost everything I wanted in the boom. Selling short. Something like that. Again the memory of those days swept over him like a nightmare--" |
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Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
"She shot very well this good, this rich bitch, this kindly caretaker and destroyer of his talent. Nonsense, He had destroyed his talent himself. why should he blame this woman because she kept him well? He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in , by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. What was this? A catalogue of old books? What was his talent anyway? It was a talent all right but instead of using it, he had traded it. It was never what he had done, but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil. It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more money than the last one? But when he no longer was in love, when he was only lying, as to this woman, now, who had the most money of all, who had all the money there was, who had had a husband and children, who had taken lovers and been dissatisfied with them, and who loved him dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as a proud possession; it was strange that when he did not love her at all and was lying that he should be able to give her more for her money than when he had really loved." |
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William Faulkner A Rose for Emily |
"She carried her head high enough-even when we believed that she was fallen." |
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Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas |
“The gluttonous bulk of Braggioni has become a symbol of her many disillusions, for a revolutionist should be lean, animated by heroic faith, a vessel of abstract virtues. This is nonsense, she knows it now and is ashamed of it. Revolution must have leaders, and leadership is a career for energetic men.” |
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Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas |
"Not for nothing has Braggioni taken pains to be a good revolutionist and a professional lover of humanity. He will never die of it. He has the malice, the cleverness, the wickedness, the sharpness of wit, the hardness of heart, stipulated for loving the world profitably. He will never die of it." |
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Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas |
"Tonight Laura envies Mrs. Braggioni, who is alone, and free to weep as much as she pleases about a concrete wrong." |
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Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas |
"Braggioni enters his own house where for a month his wife has spent many hours every night weeping and tangling her hair upon her pillow. She is weeping now, and she weeps more at the sight of him, the cause of all her sorrows. He looks about the room. Nothing is changed, the smells are good and familiar. . ." |
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Katherine Anne Porter Flowering Judas |
"The tolling of the midnight bell is a signal, but what does it mean? Get up, Laura, and follow me: come out of your sleep, out of your bed, out of this strange house. What are you doing in this house? Without a word, without fear she rose and reached for Eugenio's hand . . ." |
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Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
I've known rivers: / Ancient, dusky rivers." |
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Langston Hughes I, Too |
"But I laugh/ and eat well/ and grow strong./ Tomorrow/ I'll be at the table/ when company comes" |
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Langston Hughes Song for a Dark Girl |
"They hung my black young lover/ to a cross roads tree" |
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Countee Cullen Heritage |
"My conversion came high-priced;/ I belong to Jesus Christ,/ Preacher of humility; / Heathen gods are naught to me." |
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Countee Cullen Yet Do I Marvel |
"Yet do I marvel at this curious thing;/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing." |
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Zora Neale Hurston The Gilded Six Bits |
"Mister Otis D. Slemmons, of spots and places --Memphis, Chicago, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, and so on. Dat heavy-set man wid his mouth full of gold teethes? Yeah. Where did you see 'im at? . . . Dat make 'm look lak a rich white man. All rich mens is got some belly on 'em." |
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Zora Neale Hurston The Gilded Six Bits |
"Alone to herself, she looked at the thing with loathing, but look she must. She took it into her hands with trembling and saw first thing that it was no gold piece. It was a gilded half dollar. Then she knew why Slemmons had forbidden anyone to touch his gold. He trusted village eyes at a distance not to recognize his stick-pin as a gilded quarter and his watch charm as a four-bit piece." |
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Zora Neale Hurston The Gilded Six Bits |
"Wisht I could be like these darkies. Laughin' all the time. Nothin' worries them." |
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Ralph Ellison Invisible Man |
"Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth." |
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Ralph Ellison Invisible Man |
"So I spoke with greater emotional emphasis . . . social . . . what? they yelled. Equality." |
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Arthur Miller The Crucible |
Anything with witches, John Proctor, Giles, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams |
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Flannery O'Connor Good Country People |
"You're a fine Christian" |
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Thomas Pynchon Entropy |
"Language barrier, Meatball suggested. Saul jumped off the stove. That, he said, angry, is a good candidate for sick joke of the year. No, ace, it is not a barrier. If it is anything it's a kind of leakage. Tell a girl I love you. No trouble with two-thirds of that, its a closed circuit. Just you and she. But that nasty four-letter word in the middle, that's the one you have to look out for. Ambiguity. Redundance. Irrelevance, even. Leakage. all this noise. Noise screws up your signal, makes for disorganization in the circuit."
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Thomas Pynchon Entropy |
So he decided to try and keep his lease-breaking party from deteriorating into total chaose: he gave wine to the sailors and separated the morra players; he introduced the fat government girl to Sandor Rojas, who would keep her out of trouble; he helped the girl in the shower to dry off and get into bed; he had another talk with Saul; he called a repairman for the refrigerator, which someone had discovered was on the blink. This is what he did until nightfall, when most of the revellers had passed out and the party trembled on the threshold of its third day. |
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Alice Walker Everyday Use |
"After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan . . . " |
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Sandra Cisneros |
"to suffer for love is good, the pain all sweet in the end." |
