The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
“The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Fielding’s Condensed History of NewfoundlandChapter Ten:THE PLANTER’S ‘PLAINTIt is easy enough to dismiss Hayman as a rhyming simpleton, as Prowse does, yet how poignantly in Quodlibets does he capture the boredom of day-to-day routine in this supposedly “new” world in his poem “The Planter’s ‘Plaint”:Fish for breakfast, fish for lunch,Of fish I cannot stand the sight.And worst of all this savage bunchWho bugger me night after night.I wish we had some women ...here,I wish some womenfolk would come.The men then might not be so queer,Nor, I think, so sore my bum.MoreLess
Read book The Colony of Unrequited Dreams for free
Write Review:
User Reviews: