Who composed the following lines :
"Somewhere beyond the scorched gable end and by
Buses
There is a poet indulging
His wretched rage for order"
Answers
Answer:1
Derek Mahon composed the following lines:
"Somewhere beyond the scorched gable end and by
Buses
There is a poet indulging
His wretched rage for order"
Explanation:
Dear Student,
◆ Answer -
Mentioned lines are from the poem Rage for order written by Derek Mahon in 1979.
◆ Complete poem -
Somewhere beyond the scorched gable end and the burnt-out buses
there is a poet indulging
his wretched rage for order –
or not as the case may be for his
is a dying art,
an eddy of semantic scruples
in an unstructurable sea.
He is far from his people,
and the fitful glare of his high window is as
nothing to our scattered glass.
His posture is grandiloquent and deprecating, like this,
his diet ashes,
his talk of justice and his mother
the rhetorical device
of an etiolated emperor—
Nero if you prefer, no mother there.
And this in the face of love,
death, and the wages of the poor.
If he is silent, it is the silence of enforced humility
if anxious to be heard, it is the anxiety
of a last word
when the drums start for his is a dying art.
Now watch me as I make history. Watch as I tear down
to build up with a desperate love,
knowing it cannot be
long now till I have need of his
desperate ironies.
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