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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FACTORY CHIMNEYS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite
Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold.
Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke
First Line: Motionless blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite
Last Line: In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold.
Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; London; Smoke
MOTIONLESS blood-hued styluses that scrawl on the infinite
Shifting surface of sky for ever and ever unrolled,
Man's greatest achievement and failure, through infuriate
day and through night,
In hieroglyphs rolling and tumbling, red, black, purple and gold.
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