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Walking Away Lyrics. It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day –. A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play. Your first game of football ...
Cecil Day-Lewis. 1904–1972. Cecil Day-Lewis has two contrasting claims on our attention. The first is as an archetypal poet of the 1930s, the first-born, last-named member of the Auden/Spender/Day-Lewis triad, and the only one of those three friends whose commitment to Marxism extended to joining and working for the Communist Party.
Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away. Behind a scatter of boys. I can see. You walking away from me towards the school. With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free. Into a wilderness ...
Jul 22, 2020 · The poem is autobiographical with the poet, C Day-Lewis, addressing his son Sean as he watches him play his ‘first game of football’. The poem is written in the second person to create a personal, heartfelt tone and to deepen the connection between father and son. The caesura throughout these two lines represents the boundaries between them ...
A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play. Your first game of football, then, like a satellite. Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away. Behind ...
Jul 28, 2022 · The touch-lines new-ruled – since I watched you play. Your first game of football, then, like a satellite. Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away. Behind a scatter of boys. I can see. You walking away from me towards the school. With the pathos of a half-fledged thing set free. Into a wilderness, the gait of one.
Nov 12, 2022 · The poem. It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day –. A sunny day with leaves just turning, The touch-lines new-ruled — since I watched you play. Your first game of football, then, like a ...
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