Monday, January 13, 2003

Cape Breton Comments

Rating: 3.3

Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford,
the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand
with their backs to the mainland
in solemn, uneven lines along the cliff's brown grass-frayed edge,
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Mahtab Bangalee 29 November 2020

full of beautiful descriptive poem; as if I am on that landscape.......

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Khairul Ahsan 29 November 2020

'Sometimes, frightened by aeroplanes, they stampede and fall over into the sea or onto the rocks' - A vivd picture of the flocks of sheep in dire fear. 'The silken water is weaving and weaving, disappearing under the mist equally in all directions' - Loved this beautiful imagery. Glad to see this poem selected as the 'Classic Poem of the Day'!

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Edward Kofi Louis 29 November 2020

Things seen around Cape Breton! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Dr Antony Theodore 29 November 2020

The birds keep on singing, a calf bawls, the bus starts. The thin mist follows the white mutations of its dream; an ancient chill is rippling the dark brooks. a very fine poem. thank you. to ny

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Deluke Muwanigwa 29 November 2020

Its like i been to the scene. Lovely descriptive poem.

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Robert Murray Smith 27 June 2018

A painted poem where sheep roam.++10

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Muzahidul Reza 27 June 2018

A well descriptive one with aloquence and pictorial expression

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Castellenas John 27 June 2018

A wonderful poem. The description was amazing. Thank you.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 27 June 2018

Such a great write by Elizabeth Bishop👍👍👍

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Primrose Tee 05 May 2014

great poem, , , nice work

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* Sunprincess * 14 March 2014

It stops, and a man carrying a bay gets off, climbs over a stile, and goes down through a small steep meadow, which establishes its poverty in a snowfall of daisies, to his invisible house beside the water.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

Worcester, Massachusetts
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