1. “I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings
Were gathered there for vengeance…”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

2. “only then would he let me trace
the frozen river which ran through his face”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

3. Manhunt
He has PTSD – he’s still affected by the war
A sense of loss, being scarred
“trace” – she’s being gentle about it

4. “the foetus beneath his chest
where the bullet had finally come to rest”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

5. “I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

6. “Between hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

7. “A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade…the blown birds egg of a skull.”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

8. “For years afterwards, the farmers found them –”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

9. “How the youthful Harlot’s curse Blasts the new born Infant’s tear”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

10. London

11. “A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

12. The Soldier

13. “A pulse in the eternal mind”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

14. “A heart whose love is innocent!”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

15. “There you’ll be, with furrowed brow
And chain mail glinting, to set me free:”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

16. Cozy Apologia

17. “You’re bunkered in your
Aerie, I’m perched in mine”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

18. Cozy Apologia

19. “It will blind you with tears
like a lover.”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

20. “The scent will cling to your fingers,
Cling to your knife.”
What poem is it from?
What does it mean?
What images/feelings are there?
What is the writer suggesting?

21. Valentine