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Cut Grass by Philip Larkin

11/23/2008 3:51:56 AM

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin
(1922 - 1985 / England)

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Cut Grass

Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death

It dies in .........
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Philip Larkin

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Philip Housiaux (1/26/2008 6:11:00 AM)
Yes classic quality. Quatrains in abab, weak stresses in the metre and short lines encouraging reflective reading. I found myself wondering if the cut grass was
growing over a coffin in a graveyard.

Tarinikinkar Das (11/29/2004 11:16:00 PM)
I really loved the poem, it unleashed a gush of empathy for the the anguish of an innocent soul, expressed in such simple heart-touching words.

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