slough revisited poem

"For the project, 1920s Slough is revisited to capitalise from the economy of 'happiness' as an alternative industry, using Winnie-the-Pooh as a metaphorical protagonist," explained Elias.

Slough is a ten stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in the 1937 collection Continual Dew. The poem is now an unofficial national anthem of England. John Betjeman described himself as a "poet and a hack", a sentiment typical of the wry self-deprecating wit that has earned him an indelible place in the affections of the British public. Slough is open, wide and green With gorgeous buildings in between; In the museum can be seen Slough life, Slough death Which show the history of a town That people have tried to put down By talking of it with a frown And cruel sneers. It was written in protest against 850 factories that were to be built in the English town of Slough. ‘Slough‘. Jerusalem is an infamous prophetic, melancholic and classic poem, penned by maestro William Blake during the birth of 19 th century. John Betjeman later regretted his poem about Slough, which wasn’t a comment on the people, but a reaction against banal petit-bourgeois suburban modernity, the reality of trading estates, ‘air conditioned, bright canteens’, and wives who ‘frizz out peroxide hair’.. The shoegaze Woodstock revisited: photos and memories of Slough Music Festival ’91. The opening lines of this poem are probably Betjeman’s most famous.

It’s true Slough Town don’t always win But losing’s shrugged off with a grin; Slough can take it on the chin For instance, in The Office, Ricky Gervais’s David Brent once recited a portion of John Betjeman’s poem Slough: Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! Like ‘The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel’ it appeared in Continual Dew. It isn’t fit for humans now, The poem caused an uproar when first… July 27, 2018 marks the 27th anniversary of the 1991 Slough Music Festival, a one-day bash in the town’s Upton Court Park that (almost) made a mockery of Sir John Betjeman’s poem. "Slough" is a ten-stanza poem by Sir John Betjeman, first published in his 1937 collection Continual Dew. The British town of Slough was used as a dump for war surplus materials in the interwar years, and then abruptly became the home of 850 new factories just before World War II.