CPLT 389W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alice Oswald
25 Jun 2018
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ALICE OSWALD QUOTES (for discussion, finished)
“May two fields be bridged by a stile
And two hearts by the tilting footbridge of a glance”
(from Woods, etc.)
“The first whisper of stars is a faint thing
a candle sound, too far away to read by...”
(from Woods, etc)
“A Short Story of Falling
It is the story of the falling rain
to turn into a leaf and fall again
it is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower
and every flower a tiny tributary
that from the ground flows green and momentary
is one of water's wishes and this tale
hangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnail
if only I a passerby could pass
as clear as water through a plume of grass
to find the sunlight hidden at the tip
turning to seed a kind of lifting rain drip
then I might know like water how to balance
the weight of hope against the light of patience
water which is so raw so earthy-strong
