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The Caged Skylark by Gerald Manley Hopkins. Part One

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“The Caged Skylark” by Gerald Manley Hopkins As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage,      Man's mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells —      That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;  This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life's age.  Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage      Both sing sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,      Yet both droop deadly sómetimes in their cells  Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.  Not that the sweet-fowl, song-fowl, needs no rest —  Why, hear him, hear him babble & drop down to his nest,      But his own nest, wild nest, no prison.  Man's spirit will be flesh-bound, when found at best,  But uncumberèd: meadow-down is not distressed      For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bónes rísen. Gerald Manyley...
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Watching the Dolphins

Watching the dolphins, David Constantine poet reads poem https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=th56jeso6fc dolphins  in Greece https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=N3IDl7YFIjY   dolphin  watching from 2,39 https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=A2w4IzFjKzU   Our Pontonniers' handout: David Constantine b. 1944 This contemporary poet lives in Oxford, where he teaches at Oxford University. He is married with two children and has six grandchildren. "Watching for Dolphins" is a poem which appears in a book of poetry of the same name, published in 1983. He has published several other books of poetry as well as translations of European poetry, novels, short stories and non-fiction books. He is the co-editor of a literary journal, Modern Poetry in Translation. He has received many prizes for his literature and translations. source : https:// "David J. Constantine" Ben Wilkinson, 2009, literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-j-constantine, consulted 1...
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The sea eats the land at home

Kofi Awoonoor   (13 March 1935 - 21 September 2013) A map of Ghana:     https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/africa/ghana/                  A Ghanaian poet who wrote extensively about African identity and the loss of cultural identity in the face of Western colonization and influence. He studied in Ghana, London in the UK and in the United States, and became a university professor of comparative literature, teaching in several countries. He was involved in a political scandal in Ghana, but later became Ghana's ambassador to Brazil, Cuba and finally the United Nations (1990-1994). He was killed in a terrorist attack of a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya in 2013. He wrote many books of poetry and novels. 'The Sea Eats the Land at Home' The headline                        In newspaper articles, titles often...
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