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restate meaning
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There are moments when my (learned) English keeps being stubbornly opaque. I am trying to get the meaning of these lines by poet David Dabydeen:
Heaped up beside you Old Dabydeen
Who on Albion Estate clean dawn
Washed obsessively by the canal bank,
Spread flowers on the snake-infested water,
Fed the gods the food that Chandra cooked,
Bathed his tongue of the creole
Babbled by low-caste infected coolies...
The second and the third line seem to me very confusing. Restatements of the first lines would help.
Heaped up beside you Old Dabydeen
Who on Albion Estate clean dawn
Washed obsessively by the canal bank,
Spread flowers on the snake-infested water,
Fed the gods the food that Chandra cooked,
Bathed his tongue of the creole
Babbled by low-caste infected coolies...
The second and the third line seem to me very confusing. Restatements of the first lines would help.
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Goodness - that is complex - but if you really want to know, you can ask him yourself, his email address is at the bottom, here http://www2.warwick.a...s/ccs/staff/dabydeen/
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