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| By sueas | ||||||
| 01 December 2006 | ||||||
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Please use alternative authors if preferred. Some exaggeration too May have mixed up the message here - comments welcome. Read Milton and Shakespeare I’ve studied so hard But I couldn’t make sense Of the words from the Bard They had to translate it It didn’t make sense. I’d expect that if written In Urdhu or French Then Austen and Bronte So much clearer by far Here there are stories Of characters who are Nearer to human More local to me and those Written in time When more knew ABC But what about Hardy Where one leaf on a tree Took such years of description It took fifty three Pages of words Which when read were too thin With a measure of mass Couldn’t hold, draw me in Then I read Britain and Virginia, Ms Wolf And I began to realise, To consider the gulf Between those who had written And those who had not For whom they were writing For those who had got Status and privilege Money for school The elite and the classes Not mixed in the pool Of poor – those ignorant But not any more They’re all reading and writing And settling the score Written at a time Within context for sure High language for learneds But now there are more Readers and writers Evolving with time? Now we all read Now a quagmire Swamped with a drivel That everyone can read? Tomes writ by Beckham Roo, Clarkson, Trinny New words on the page Do I better understand? The point or the purpose, In time – will they stand?
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