Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Bantry Bay Comments

Rating: 2.8

On the eighteenth of October we lay in Bantry Bay,
All ready to set sail, with a fresh and steady gale:
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John Clare
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Sylvia Frances Chan 20 May 2022

A beautiful poem about the lost of a whole ship's crew at Bantry Bay. Greatest tragedy.5 Stars

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Chinedu Dike 20 May 2022

A tragic story of lose told with clarity of thought and mind.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 11 May 2017

An awesome narrative of the catastrophe faced by the crew of the war ship.

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Upendra Upm 11 May 2017

And staggered like a mountain drunk, he is describing the ship in the storm.Beautiful and meticulous description. From a genius mind. How to describe is perhaps culturally determined.We, here in India , perhaps have never called a swinging ship as a drunk mountain.

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