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Favourite poetry Lines

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  • #62
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,627 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Knockanure both mean and poor,
    A church without a steeple ,
    Bitches and whures
    Looking over half doors,
    Criticising decent ppl


  • #63
    Rabbit Redux
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭Rabbit Redux


    For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
    In the valley of its making where executives
    Would never want to tamper, flows on south
    From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
    Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
    A way of happening, a mouth.

    W.H. Auden
    (In Memory of W.B. Yeats)


  • #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    I don't think I have ever heard a recording of Ted Hughes reading "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone", but somehow can hear him, with his clipped Yorkshire accent enunciating every jagged consonant, almost snarling, as he reads it.

    There are a few great lines and images, such as where he predicts that if you pick it up the receiver, a dead body will fall out, or when he turns on the phone "You plastic crab" that screeches "at the root of the house".

    It's that impression of a man driven to the point of madness in the repeated exhortation "do not pick up the telephone" that is so moving.
    Of course, the context is that it was over the telephone in 1963 that Ted Hughes famously heard the devastating line "Your wife is dead".


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