Poem "Footsteps" by Ivor Cutler
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The narrator has a strong accent, where do you think they come from?
How old do you think is the person that the poem is about (not the person reading the poem)? What do you think is going to happen next to the person in the poem? Does this poem remind you of anything that happened to you - tell us about it in the comments section.
You can also find the words in the comments.
posted by Steve at 6:42 pm
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Here are the words to the poem.
Footsteps
Bang the table with your fist
The cup jumps
The saucer jumps
The raspberry juice spills out the cup into the saucer
The raspberry juice flows onto the table out the saucer
Let us leap on the table and swim in the raspberry lake
Let us lie on the table and get sunburned under the kitchen light
Look the spoons are swimming
The knives and forks are paddling at the edge
And mother’s footsteps can be heard in the passage
7:02 pm
FERNANDO PEREZ GONZALEZ
- According to the narrator's accent, he might come from a country of Eastern Europe, like Russia, and might be an old person as his voice sounds tired.
- The mother is going to the kitchen as she heard some noises and probably scold him for dropping the juice.
7:28 pm
Well, in first place I would like to say that although the person has a strong accent, English is his mother tongue. I will probably say that he is from the north of Great Britain, Scotland, or maybe from Ireland.
The poem is written by a child or maybe by someone who pretends to be a little kid. I think he is a kid because the poem gives the impression of you looking the table in the kitchen on a special day, maybe Christmas.
Well, if the poem had continued it would say that the mum, back in the kitchen, has found one of her kids playing with the food she had prepared. This wouldn’t make her very happy but it was only o little bit of raspberry juice.
By Cristina Silván
8:20 pm
I agree with the comments above about what would happen after the poem - I like this poem a lot as I think it evokes very well the feeling of being a child in this situation (from what I can remember). Regarding the poet's origins, he speaks with a strong Scottish accent; he comes from Glasgow, though a Scottish colleague tells me his accent isn't very typical of that city.
1:12 pm
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