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<blockquote data-quote="Princess Pooper" data-source="post: 4307436" data-attributes="member: 971"><p>Studied him for O level English lit - pretty heavy stuff some of it!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Welsh Landscape by R. S. Thomas</p><p></p><p>To live in Wales is to be conscious</p><p>At dusk of the spilled blood</p><p>That went into the making of the wild sky,</p><p>Dyeing the immaculate rivers</p><p>In all their courses.</p><p>It is to be aware,</p><p>Above the noisy tractor</p><p>And hum of the machine</p><p>Of strife in the strung woods,</p><p>Vibrant with sped arrows.</p><p>You cannot live in the present,</p><p>At least not in Wales.</p><p>There is the language for instance,</p><p>The soft consonants</p><p>Strange to the ear.</p><p>There are cries in the dark at night</p><p>As owls answer the moon,</p><p>And thick ambush of shadows,</p><p>Hushed at the fields' corners.</p><p>There is no present in Wales,</p><p>And no future;</p><p>There is only the past,</p><p>Brittle with relics,</p><p>Wind-bitten towers and castles</p><p>With sham ghosts;</p><p>Mouldering quarries and mines;</p><p>And an impotent people,</p><p>Sick with inbreeding,</p><p>Worrying the carcase of an old song.</p><p></p><p></p><p>We had to be able to quote from memory sections from the poems to demonstrate points about the writer's style so some of these will remain with me forever (WH Auden another, didn't like him, Wilfred Owen another, whom made a great impression on me).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Princess Pooper, post: 4307436, member: 971"] Studied him for O level English lit - pretty heavy stuff some of it! Welsh Landscape by R. S. Thomas To live in Wales is to be conscious At dusk of the spilled blood That went into the making of the wild sky, Dyeing the immaculate rivers In all their courses. It is to be aware, Above the noisy tractor And hum of the machine Of strife in the strung woods, Vibrant with sped arrows. You cannot live in the present, At least not in Wales. There is the language for instance, The soft consonants Strange to the ear. There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon, And thick ambush of shadows, Hushed at the fields' corners. There is no present in Wales, And no future; There is only the past, Brittle with relics, Wind-bitten towers and castles With sham ghosts; Mouldering quarries and mines; And an impotent people, Sick with inbreeding, Worrying the carcase of an old song. We had to be able to quote from memory sections from the poems to demonstrate points about the writer's style so some of these will remain with me forever (WH Auden another, didn't like him, Wilfred Owen another, whom made a great impression on me). [/QUOTE]
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