'Great Expectations' Defined Industrial Poverty Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

'Great Expectations' Defined Industrial Poverty



missing
forgetting
little poems

a lot
at
present

wrote
a definition
of poverty

as
Charles
Dickens

would
have tried
to express

it
in
a

'Great Expectations'
era
framework

what
few pitiful fragments
of a perfect succinct

analysis
could
I hope to resurrect? ? ?

but anything
is better
than this nothing

tomorrow
i hope
to write anything

life
large stereotypes
will

not
help class
causes!

poverty
exploited Victorian
pitiful poor

a perceived
Dickens
phenomenon

living
within
rise

neglected
deflated
industrial

past
poverty
social

consciousness
mammoth
social causes

past empiric addressed
does Dickens imply?
God should be ashamed?

to allow urban extensive
Victorian raw industrial disease
pitiless soulless exploitative

suffering sweat shops
industrial grind workhouses
scaled ploy aid programmes

to restamp work rat society
education empire dreams
to a mint of their own making


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Complete version of the split images 'Under The Weather', 'Great Expectations' Era Framework', 'Dickens Perceives Industrial Poverty' and 'Restamp Work Rat Society' by and Terence George Craddock.
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