tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22894355.post5843726551919042031..comments2024-03-27T08:14:47.540+00:00Comments on Anna, Look!: Grumpy Autumn Evening Corner: Slough by John Betjeman.Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09809699267788752653noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22894355.post-39975099547487107012012-02-22T18:29:33.335+00:002012-02-22T18:29:33.335+00:00Well if we don't have to analyse it.. why is t...Well if we don't have to analyse it.. why is there an english course which forces you to analyse poetry?!!<br /><br />Thank you for this post.. it had made the poem a bit easier grasp :).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22894355.post-31006905968087748672007-12-30T00:13:00.000+00:002007-12-30T00:13:00.000+00:00I think you are letting your imagination run away ...I think you are letting your imagination run away with you.<BR/>I have lived in Slough for 35 years and Betjeman wrote what he saw at the time. You, trying to read his mind is like all these people saying that Nostradamus predicted all the great ills of our time.<BR/><BR/>Slough was like what he wrote at the time (not much better now) His daughter was trying to save face in the fact that her father was a crap poet. God knows how he got that job in the first place.<BR/><BR/>You are over analysing the work of a mans feelings at the time. Poetry is off the cuff. You shouldn't have to sit and analyse itcharliemachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13281542109835130790noreply@blogger.com