JAMES KIRKUP-POEM ON SUMO WRESTLING

[flicrat]

Does anyone know where I could find the words for this. It's my homework and I was away for all last week and I would really like some help. Thank you. Sophie on Nana's computer.

[flicrat]

Sorry - Poem is called All-in-Wrestlers!

[Mamyalynne]

Well Sophie, it is extremely hard to find this poem on the Internet, should you have been given a copy?? Maybe one of your classmates can help.

Sorry not to be able to help.

[Lie-in King]

Hi Sophie, I'm with mamya on this one - I can't find it yet, though have a reference to the first 6 lines -

http://books.google.c...9mxAQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAw

Sorry not to have been of real assistance but will look again later :-)

[flicrat]

Thanks mamya and Lie-in-King for that. Sophie has now gone home but I will tell her she has some help.She is only 12 but very good on the computer and had googled several sites, done Ask Jeeves, etc and found nothing. She had the poem with various words omitted and placed at the bottom of the page, and had to fill in the gaps. I presume the class had looked at it when she was away. She had no idea, so I just went on my own poetic experience and put the words in according to the rhythm. I see I got the first six lines correctly filled in, so hope I did all right with the rest. The words are not what you ( or a 12 year old, anyway) could predict with certainty. Maybe the idea was to test if they could match tenses or parts of speech correctly? Strange! Thanks - Flic ( And Sophie)

[Mamyalynne]

Well done flicrat, I too thought it a rather risqué choice of poet, but guess all is fair in literature, wish her well from me.

[flicrat]

Mamya, thank you. Sophie will be thrilled to read the replies when she is in for her tea on Friday. She wants to be a writer and has writen a short story that Ruth Rendell would be proud of - not the sort of thing I can read -gives me nightmares! Her "published" work is a short story in the Parish Magazine for Christmas.A beginning.....(And just to show how useless I am at homework, her 11 year old brother had Maths on Tuesday -decimal, fraction and percentage tallying - and I couldn't help with that either.)

[Mamyalynne]

Oh is she writes in the style of Ruth Rendell you can assure her I will be watching the book shelves when she is fully fledged author. Creative writing is a true gift and I wish her well.

Mamya xxx