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In my craft or sullen art is a poem that explains about a poet who writes for the common people instead of for fame and money. It reveals that although he writes for the common people instead of fame and money, or items, they still ignore him. This is a short poem of about 20 lines, but it still delivers its message well and shows how many things go unnoticed, even if those things are purposely searching for a group of people. The poem is good and I would recommend it.
-Nicholas Zuniga
In my craft or sullen art
In my craft or sullen art
Dylan Thomas
In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms,
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or ar
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