 | John Montague - 1982 - 200 דפים
...suppressed dream, some stuttering garbled ordeal of my own) An Irish child weeps at school repeating its English. After each mistake The master gouges another...width of your parents' hearth growing slowly alien: and field, they still speak the old tongue. You may greet no one. To grow a second tongue, as harsh... | |
 | T. P. Dolan - 2004 - 318 דפים
...Montague, 'A Grafted Tongue' (Collected Poems, 37): "An Irish | child weeps at school | repeating its English. | After each mistake || the master | gouges...a bell | on a cow, a hobble | on a straying goat." tamailte /to:'mo:ltfa/ adj., mawkish, sluggish (KM, Kerry) < Ir. 'Finish that quick and don't be so... | |
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As in a long suppressed dream, some stuttering garbled ordeal of my own) An Irish child weeps at school repeating its English. After each mistake The master gouges another mark on the tally stick hung about its neck Like a bell on a cow, a hobble on a... 