Robert Gray poetry quote memorisation

Enjambment: “as if on board a ______ / ______ at sea”

“as if on board a clipper / clambering at sea”

Poem: JTNC

The train is leaving the city and moving towards the coast.

Allusion: “Down these ______ move”

“Down these slopes move”
Poem: JTNC
The landscape is presented as flowing visual impressions.

Simile: “the train’s shadow, like a ______’s”

“the train’s shadow, like a bird’s”
Poem: JTNC
The industrial train is transformed into something light and organic.

Simile: smoke rising “like ______” over a “rubbish dump, always ______”

“like fingers” over a “rubbish dump, always burning”
Poem: FADW
The rubbish dump is transformed into a grotesque, suffocating landscape.

Metaphor: “driven like ______ into the ______”

“driven like stakes into the earth”
Poem: FADW
Human activity is presented as violently penetrating and damaging nature.

Simile: “cars like ______”

“cars like skulls”
Poem: FADW
The landscape becomes a graveyard, associating human presence with destruction.

Hellish allusion: “______ figures” acting as “______”

“shadowy figures” acting as “attendants”
Poem: FADW
Workers appear ghost-like and consumed by the polluted environment.

Hopeful imagery: voices “still travelling to a coast of ______”

Hopeful imagery: voices “still travelling to a coast of ______”

Spontaneous imagery: “the forest was ______ on ______”

“the forest was cumulus on stilts”
Poem: DAW
The forest becomes vast and dreamlike, emphasising nature's scale.

Simile: “angry as a ______ insect, a distant ______”

“angry as a burned insect, a distant car”
Poem: DAW
The industrial presence of the car is diminished against nature.

Tactile/sensory imagery: “______ redness of bark…______ as bush smoke”

“bacon redness of bark…tart as bush smoke”
Poem: DAW
Sensory details reconnect the persona with the organic landscape.

Persona’s surrender: “what it was all for I ______”

“what it was all for I forgot”
Poem: DAW
The persona stops trying to explain nature and simply experiences it.