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We finished our last week… kinda sad to be out of it… wait I’ll be in Murray’s Period 3 ENG 4UE next Semester Exam for the class is tomorrow :O — June 20! I guess I’ll post a few notes i found up… lol

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Here’s Abbey Way: here are the rooms

Where they held the chrysanthemum show –

Leaves like talons of greenfire, blooms

Of a barbarous frenzy, red, flame bronze –

And a schoolboy walked into the furnace once,

Thirty years ago.

You might have thought, had you seen him that day

Mooching from stall to stall,

I was wasted on him – the prize array

Of flowers with their resinous, caustic tang,

Their colours that royalty boomed and rang

Like gongs in the pitchpine hall.

Any tongue could scorch him; even hope tease

As if it dissembled a leer:

Like smouldering fuse, anxieties

Blindwormed his breast. How should one feel,

Consuming in youth’s slow ordeal,

What flashes from flower to flower?

Yet something did touch hum then, at the quick,

Like a premature memory prising

Through flesh. Those blooms with the bonfire reek

And flaming of ruby, copper, gold –

There boyhood’s sun foretold, retold

A full gamut of setting and rising.

Somethign touched him. Always the scene

Was to haunt his memory –

Not haunt – come alive there, as if what had been

But a flowery idea took flesh in the womb

Of his solitude, rayed out a rare, real bloom.

I know, for I was he.

And today, when I see chrysanthemums,

I half envy that boy

For whom they spoke as muffled drums

Darkly messaging, “All decays;

But youth’s brief agony can blaze

Into a posthumous joy.”

(Day-Lewis, Cecil 487)

Day-Lewis, Cecil . “The Crysanthemum Show.” Modern Verse in English. Ed. Cecil, David & Tate, Allen. Great Britain: Eyre & Spottiswoode LTD, 1963.

I was at french camp Wednesday to Friday… On Monday and Tuesday however, I worked solo on the poetry project. I hope Jessica was there to continue on Wednesday (or Thursday [Laronde]) I got a bunch done on those two days though. Next week is our last full week of the year I’ll miss Murray’s class.

NOT Finished.

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