Tony Harrison's Book Ends

Title: Tony Harrison's Book Ends
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1369 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Tony Harrison's Book Ends

Tony Harrison’s “Book Ends” – (Norton 2765) The poem is split into two sections (I & II) consisting of eight and seven stanzas respectively. The sections are both in Harrison’s distinct 16-line sonnet form. They adhere strictly to a simple a b a b rhyme scheme throughout (dead – bed, pie – try, looks – books) except the last two lines that are inverted. Each line consists of five feet, or is pentametric, except for section II, line 15 which …showed first 75 words of 1369 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1369 total…clumsy talker and couldn't find another, shorter word for 'beloved' or for 'wife' in the inscription, but not too clumsy that you can't still cut: You're supposed to be the bright boy at description and you can't tell them what the fuck to put! I've got to find the right words on my own. I've got the envelope that he'd been scrawling, mis-spelt, mawkish, stylistically appalling but I can't squeeze more love into their stone.

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