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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Need help in this poem, 'World Cup' by alan ross.
Hey guys, i was just given an assignment to do a comparative commentary on a poem and an essay.. however, i dont understand what the poem is talking about, moreover analysing it! Please help!! I just need help on what do you think the structure and purpose of this poem.. or maybe style of writing?? I DONT UNDERSTAND A BIT!!
need help desperately..
World Cup
It is, after all, a kind
Of music, an elaborating of themes
That swell and subside, which
In the converting of open spaces
Take on a clean edge.
A throw, a chip,
A flick, Wilson to Charlton,
To Moore, to Hunt, to Greaves -
The ddiagonals cross, green space is charmed
A precise moment, balletic in ordained
Agility, with the players as if magnetised
Moving intoplaces seemingly allotted them
- They seem from above to be pushed like counters
And only the fluffed pass, the momentary
Crudity disconcerting as a clerical oath,
Destroys the illusion. A goal restores it.
Arms raised like gladiators, they embrace.
Human emotions swamp them, childishly even
For such protagonists of perfection.
- And involved in this mixture
Of the fallible and the dreamy,
The percussive and the lilting, they demonstrate
How art exists on many levels, spirit
And matter close-knit as strangling lianas.
need help desperately..
World Cup
It is, after all, a kind
Of music, an elaborating of themes
That swell and subside, which
In the converting of open spaces
Take on a clean edge.
A throw, a chip,
A flick, Wilson to Charlton,
To Moore, to Hunt, to Greaves -
The ddiagonals cross, green space is charmed
A precise moment, balletic in ordained
Agility, with the players as if magnetised
Moving intoplaces seemingly allotted them
- They seem from above to be pushed like counters
And only the fluffed pass, the momentary
Crudity disconcerting as a clerical oath,
Destroys the illusion. A goal restores it.
Arms raised like gladiators, they embrace.
Human emotions swamp them, childishly even
For such protagonists of perfection.
- And involved in this mixture
Of the fallible and the dreamy,
The percussive and the lilting, they demonstrate
How art exists on many levels, spirit
And matter close-knit as strangling lianas.
Top answer
You do realise it is about football (the type the US calls soccer)...
- You do realise it is about football (the type the US calls soccer)...
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You do realise it is about football (the type the US calls soccer)...
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Its about when england won the football world cup in 1966 and the expresion of the beautiful game 
as art.
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The word "soccer" originated as an Oxford "-er" slang abbreviation of "association", and was popularized in the late nineteenth century by a prominent English footballer, Charles Wreford-Brown.
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