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Bohol Island State University
Main Campus
Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Vision: A premier S & T university for the formation of a world class and virtuous human resource for sustainable development in Bohol and the country.
Mission: BISU is committed to provide quality higher education in the arts and sciences, as well as in the professional and technological fields; undertake research and development, and extension services for the sustainable development of Bohol and the country.
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Written Report in English and American Literature
“The Epxress”
By Stephen Spender
Prepared by: Vina K. Bugtong Bsed-English 2 Mrs. Jerranica Anna Gumop-as Instructor
“The Express”
By Stephen Spender
After the first powerful, plain manifesto
The black statement of pistons, without more fuss
But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.
Without bowing and with restrained unconcern
She passes the houses which humbly crowd outside
The gasworks, and at last the heavy page
Of death, printed by gravestones in the cemetery.
Beyond the town, there lies the open country
Where, gathered speed, she acquires mystery
The luminous self-possession of ships on ocean.
It is now she begins to sing – at first quite low,
Then loud, and at last with a jazzy madness –
The song of her whistle screaming curves,
Of deafening tunnels, brakes, innumerable bolt.
And always light, aerial, underneath
Retreats the elate meter of her wheels
Steaming through metal landscape one her lines She plunge new eras of wild happiness,
Where speed throws up strange shapes, broad curves
And parallels clean like the street
Bohol Island State University
Main Campus
Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Vision: A premier S & T university for the formation of a world class and virtuous human resource for sustainable development in Bohol and the country.
Mission: BISU is committed to provide quality higher education in the arts and sciences, as well as in the professional and technological fields; undertake research and development, and extension services for the sustainable development of Bohol and the country.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Written Report in English and American Literature
“The Epxress”
By Stephen Spender
Prepared by: Vina K. Bugtong Bsed-English 2 Mrs. Jerranica Anna Gumop-as Instructor
“The Express”
By Stephen Spender
After the first powerful, plain manifesto
The black statement of pistons, without more fuss
But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.
Without bowing and with restrained unconcern
She passes the houses which humbly crowd outside
The gasworks, and at last the heavy page
Of death, printed by gravestones in the cemetery.
Beyond the town, there lies the open country
Where, gathered speed, she acquires mystery
The luminous self-possession of ships on ocean.
It is now she begins to sing – at first quite low,
Then loud, and at last with a jazzy madness –
The song of her whistle screaming curves,
Of deafening tunnels, brakes, innumerable bolt.
And always light, aerial, underneath
Retreats the elate meter of her wheels
Steaming through metal landscape one her lines She plunge new eras of wild happiness,
Where speed throws up strange shapes, broad curves
And parallels clean like the street