Post-1945 Modern Pastoral Poetry Quotes

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In Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill', what is the rest of this quote: "lilting house and …"

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Complete the quote from 'Poem in October': " /__ shore"

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In 'Poem in October', what did the speaker's birthday begin with?

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Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'Poem in October': "his _ burned my _ and his _ moved in ______"

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Complete the quote from 'Going, going': "We can always … "

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Fill in the blanks of the quote and name the poem: "but __/ And _ are too -_ / To be ___ up now"

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Is this quote from 'Church Going' correct? : "Cathedrals chronically on show/Their pyx, plate and parchment in locked cases"

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Church Going': "but ___ like , must die"

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In 'Show Saturday', what are the leeks described to be like?

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Is this quote from the final stanza of 'Show Saturday' correct? : "Something people do,/Not realising how time's rolling smithy-smoke/Shadows much greater gestures"

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Which poem does this quote come from?: "Man's a believer/Until corrupted"

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Absence' : "It was because the place was just the same/That made your absence seem a _"

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In 'In a Garden', how does the gardener leave?

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Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'In a Garden': " for was too strong"

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How are the animals described in 'Canal:1977'?

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How is the sparrow's "taste in clothes" described in 'Sparrow'?

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What would the sparrow rather do than "sing solitary" etc etc in 'Sparrow'?

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Fill in the blanks from 'Birds all Singing' : "___ makes them / or so we are told - they woo no and "

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What do birds "shake … /Like clenched fists in the world's uncaring face" in 'Birds all Singing'?

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The fruits belong to who in 'Horticultural Show'?

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Where have the carrots been in 'Horticultural Show'?

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What does the "ordinary man of the bald welsh hills" do in 'A Peasant'?

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In 'A Peasant', what is described as "crude'?

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How often does the sun "crack[s] the cheeks/Of the gaunt sky" in 'A Peasant'?

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Fill in the gaps of the quote from 'Welsh Landscape': "Above the noisy _____/And _ of the _____/Of _ in the strung __"

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What are the "impotent people" "sick" with in 'Welsh Landscape'?

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Fill in the blank of the quote from 'Invasion on the Farm': "the old farm/Warm as a _____ about me, feel the cold/Winds of the world"

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"last year", what was Harrison "full of" in 'A Kumquat for John Keats'?

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Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "Instead of 'grape against the ______ _',/would have, if he'd known it, ____ for mine"

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Was Harrison "forced to write/how Eve's apple tasted at the first bite" in 'A Kumquat for John Keats'?

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Which is the correct order of the missing blanks in 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "crunching kumquats, thinking, as he eats/ the ___, the _, the _, the , the peel/ that this is how a full life ought to ___"

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Fill in the blanks: "A thing no bigger than an _ explodes/and __ all silence and all _"

Quote test on modern pastoral poetry for the AQA litb4 exam

Post-1945 Modern Pastoral Poetry Quotes

In Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill', what is the rest of this quote: "lilting house and …"

Complete the quote from 'Poem in October': "__________ /____________ shore"

In 'Poem in October', what did the speaker's birthday begin with?

Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'Poem in October': "his _____ burned my _______ and his _____ moved in ________"

Complete the quote from 'Going, going': "We can always … "

Fill in the blanks of the quote and name the poem: "but ______/ And _______ are too ______-_______ / To be _____ up now"

Is this quote from 'Church Going' correct? : "Cathedrals chronically on show/Their pyx, plate and parchment in locked cases"

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Church Going': "but _________ like ______, must die"

In 'Show Saturday', what are the leeks described to be like?

Is this quote from the final stanza of 'Show Saturday' correct? : "Something people do,/Not realising how time's rolling smithy-smoke/Shadows much greater gestures"

Which poem does this quote come from?: "Man's a believer/Until corrupted"

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Absence' : "It was because the place was just the same/That made your absence seem a ______ _______"

In 'In a Garden', how does the gardener leave?

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'In a Garden': "________ for ________ was too strong"

How are the animals described in 'Canal:1977'?

How is the sparrow's "taste in clothes" described in 'Sparrow'?

What would the sparrow rather do than "sing solitary" etc etc in 'Sparrow'?

Fill in the blanks from 'Birds all Singing' : "_________ makes them ______ / or so we are told - they woo no ______ and ______"

What do birds "shake … /Like clenched fists in the world's uncaring face" in 'Birds all Singing'?

The fruits belong to who in 'Horticultural Show'?

Complete the quote from 'Poem in October': " /__ shore"

Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'Poem in October': "his _ burned my _ and his _ moved in ______"

Fill in the blanks of the quote and name the poem: "but __/ And _ are too -_ / To be ___ up now"

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Church Going': "but ___ like , must die"

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'Absence' : "It was because the place was just the same/That made your absence seem a _"

Fill in the blanks of this quote from 'In a Garden': " for was too strong"

Fill in the blanks from 'Birds all Singing' : "___ makes them / or so we are told - they woo no and "

Fill in the gaps of the quote from 'Welsh Landscape': "Above the noisy _____/And _ of the _____/Of _ in the strung __"

Fill in the blanks of the quote from 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "Instead of 'grape against the ______ _',/would have, if he'd known it, ____ for mine"

Which is the correct order of the missing blanks in 'A Kumquat for John Keats': "crunching kumquats, thinking, as he eats/ the ___, the _, the _, the , the peel/ that this is how a full life ought to ___"

Fill in the blanks: "A thing no bigger than an _ explodes/and __ all silence and all _"