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    The poem describes the experience of riding on a subway train in the city. The train rushes through the "city's great gaunt gut" carrying the weary wind from above ground. In the crowded cars, fans cut through the "sick and heavy air" left behind. Some pale-cheeked children go to the upper doors to feel the breeze on their summer jackets, but their laughter is drowned out by the roar of the trapped wind that longs for the open fields and seas. The wind dreams of seas where schooners drift lazily and seagulls fly, waiting for winds to lift the boats among the islands with their fragrant palm trees.

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    The poem describes the experience of riding on a subway train in the city. The train rushes through the "city's great gaunt gut" carrying the weary wind from above ground. In the crowded cars, fans cut through the "sick and heavy air" left behind. Some pale-cheeked children go to the upper doors to feel the breeze on their summer jackets, but their laughter is drowned out by the roar of the trapped wind that longs for the open fields and seas. The wind dreams of seas where schooners drift lazily and seagulls fly, waiting for winds to lift the boats among the islands with their fragrant palm trees.

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    Subway Wind Language Analysis Sheet HA

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    The poem describes the experience of riding on a subway train in the city. The train rushes through the "city's great gaunt gut" carrying the weary wind from above ground. In the crowded cars, fans cut through the "sick and heavy air" left behind. Some pale-cheeked children go to the upper doors to feel the breeze on their summer jackets, but their laughter is drowned out by the roar of the trapped wind that longs for the open fields and seas. The wind dreams of seas where schooners drift lazily and seagulls fly, waiting for winds to lift the boats among the islands with their fragrant palm trees.

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    GCSE Unseen Poetry

    Subway Wind Language Analysis

    Subway Wind
    Far down, down through the city’s great gaunt gut
    The gray train rushing bears the weary wind;
    In the packed cars the fans the crowd’s breath cut,
    Leaving the sick and heavy air behind.
    And pale-cheeked children seek the upper door
    To give their summer jackets to the breeze;
    Their laugh is swallowed in the deafening roar
    Of captive wind that moans for fields and seas;
    Seas cooling warm where native schooners drift
    Through sleepy waters, while gulls wheel and sweep,
    Waiting for windy waves the keels to lift
    Lightly among the islands of the deep;
    Islands of lofty palm trees blooming white
    That led their perfume to the tropic sea,
    Where fields lie idle in the dew-drenched night,
    And the Trades float above them fresh and free.

    Claude McKay

    schooner: a type of sailing boat


    keel: the ridge along the base of a boat

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