Monday, April 5, 2010

The Great Hunger Comments

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Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move
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Patrick Kavanagh
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mary wilson 25 September 2020

having read this poem, I feel the poet has given us a picture of the landscape at the time of the great famine, he uses imagery to show that nature continues even though people suffer, the story itself is drawn out, we could simply summarise in two three stanzas

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