Monday, January 13, 2003

Sonnet: O City, City Comments

Rating: 2.9

To live between terms, to live where death
has his loud picture in the subway ride,
Being amid six million souls, their breath
An empty song suppressed on every side,
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Michael Walker 26 August 2019

A pessimistic but convincing picture of life in a very big city. 'The office building rises to its tyranny'. That is true for office workers in a city. Striking personification.

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