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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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You Will Know When you get there - student summary

  You will know when you get there  by Allen Curnow Here is a summary written by a student two years ago: You will know when you get there is a poem by Allen Curnow. This poem has a very interesting structure, before even reading it the reader already feels confused and awkward, the poem is made of ten couplets and one tercet. Curnow plays a lot with enjambment as it is present in almost every line. This gives the poem a speaking voice effect, but it takes away the reassuring feeling that a traditional poem would give to a reader. The fact that the poem is in free verse also adds to this effect the reader doesn't know what to expect next, this creates tension.  Allen Curnow uses assonance with shower and shredding (line 4) thickening and thinning (line 6) ocean and shallowed (line 18), all those sounds are sounds that takes the mouth a lot of effort to pronounce this adds to the tension already presents with the unusual structure. We could also say that the assonance Line...
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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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