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  1. John Ormond wrote "Cathedral Builders" around 1963, after being inspired by a visit to Italy where he saw men singing while building a new cathedral; the poem was published in the journal Poetry Wales in 1965, and later collected in Ormond's book Cathedral Builders and Other Poems (1987).

  2. POEMS. John Ormond. Dunvant, near Swansea. The Cathedral Builders. They climbed on sketchy ladders towards God, with winch and pulley hoisted hewn rock into heaven, inhabited the sky with hammers, defied gravity, deified stone, took up God's house to meet him, and came down to their suppers. and small beer,

  3. Nov 20, 2021 · The poem explores the lives of the men who built the Cathedral, their families and their fellow workers. There is a human story behind every grand monument which is often ignored. The poet talks about the aging of the cathedral builders – from young men to old who are no longer able to engage with their work.

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  5. form. ‘Cathedral Builders’ has no rhyme scheme, and although it contains lines of similar length, it deviates from the usual iambic tetrameter and trimeter. Also notable is the fact that, despite its length, the poem consists of one single sentence. (2) Rian Evans, in John Ormond, Collected Poems (Bridgend: Seren, 2015), p. 275.

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  6. Nov 12, 2021 · 975 views 2 years ago. Complete Analysis of The Cathedral Builders by John Ormond in presentation mode. Literary terms and analysis included. To read the blog post visit:www.litspring.com...

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  7. Feb 7, 2020 · March 7, 2020 ~ Seren Books. Ours Friday Poem this week is ‘Cathedral Builders’ by John Ormond from John Ormond: Collected Poems. John Ormonds legacy as both a poet and award-winning documentary maker will be remembered at the Seren Cardiff Poems Festival inches the Inaugural Meic Steeps Lecture.

  8. Jun 1, 2020 · A poem delineating the day-to-day work and home lives of cathedral builders, culminating in the final satisfaction: “I bloody did that.”

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