-and write a poem in response.
It's the "poem" part that may be dubious here. Sometimes my response to something is more to its style than its content and seeing this I was struck by how much it was unique to the period. So I started thinking about how people might present the same information in other styles... and I hit on the idea of an overly abstract and academic study.
So what I am saying is that there may be nobody else in the world except me who gets this...
...but it is a list poem and you could imagine it came from the introduction of some dry-as-bones volume that a tweed clad professor has been labouring over for the best part of a decade..
Possible taxonomies of the 1957 Yorkshire coast
- those involving sun hats
- those involving beer
- those involving knobbly knees
- those involving simple foodstuffs : apples, sandwiches, cheese
- as above, but also fish and chips
- those involving model ships or boats
- those involving racquets
- those involving balls
- those involving young ladies
- excluding the most popular of all
- those involving sand
- with buckets and spades
- with towels
- with sandwiches
- those planned a year in advance
- those involving dance with various degrees of skill
- the subset involving omnibuses
- those involving ice cream
- the subset with also small children
- and the subset of those in which a seagull features
- those involving other creatures:
- donkeys
- crabs
- minute fish
- those in which you drink too much, and wish you hadn't
- those featuring special boys or girls
- appearing at just the wrong moment
- or where they don't arrive at all
- as yet to be categorised:
- sea temperature
- sunburn
- chilblains
- lower back pain in the context of luggage
- all the grades of rain
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