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Towards the Last Spike
E. J. Pratt
出版Good Press, 2021-08-30
主題Poetry / General
ISBNEAN:4066338052445
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hapBEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from 1871 through 1885. Excerpt: "It was the same world then as now—the same, Except for little differences of speed And power, and means to treat myopia To show an axe-blade infinitely sharp Splitting things infinitely small, or else Provide the telescopic sight to roam Through curved dominions never found in fables. The same, but for new particles of speech..."