Analysis and summary Required

[bharatwaja]

Hello guys,
Please help me out here, i am doing a project on John Ormond's poetry, and I need help with the analysis of His poem, The Cathedral Builders....

I did an extensive search on google for 5 hours, but could not turn up with anything, so please could anyone kindly help me out here and provide me with analysis and summary of the poem "The Cathedral Builders" by John Ormond....

Please help me!!!
Thanks in advance....

[Scheherazade]

Hello Bharatwaja,

If you post the poem here, I am sure there will be some members who post their opinions on the poem.

Welcome to the Forum.

[kilted exile]

This is the poem

The Cathedral Builders
by John Ormond


They climbed on sketchy ladders towards God,
with winch and pulley hoisted hewn rock into heaven,
inhabited the sky with hammers,
defied gravity,
deified stone,took up God's house to meet him,
and came down to their suppers
and small beer,
every night slept, lay with their smelly wives,
quarrelled and cuffed the children,
lied, spat, sang, were happy, or unhappy,
and every day took to the ladders again,
impeded the rights of way of another summer's swallows,
grew greyer, shakier,
became less inclined to fix a neighbour's roof of a fine evening,
saw naves sprout arches, clerestories soar,
cursed the loud fancy glaziers for their luck,
somehow escaped the plague,
got rheumatism,
decided it was time to give it up,
to leave the spire to others,
stood in the crowd, well back from the vestments at the consecration,
envied the fat bishop his warm boots,
cocked a squint eye aloft,
and said, "I bloody did that."

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