Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. One can imagine the narrator could be a woman or a gay person.
I dozed, I slept.
I dozed, I slept. Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was an English poet. It is somewhat puzzling when he does not give more clues as to the sexes of the two characters.
The Hug by Thom Gunn - Poem as Friend to Sam In this episode, Sam talks about the poem that has been a friend to him – 'The Hug' by Thom Gunn.
This hug is true and tender and makes the speaker feel as if they no longer have arms and that they are sort of merging with one another in a really beautiful, emotional way. A devilish Brit writing from both the epicenter and the lava-outskirts of a shifting American landscape. The Hug -- Thom Gunn Guest poem submitted by Maddie Close: The Hug It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. The collection New Selected Poems: Thom Gunn draws from the poet’s canon to commemorate one of the most profound members of a generation of English poets who came of age during and after World War II. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004 / England) The Hug. I've read another verse (tamer and hawk) by his hand before. On Thom Gunn's poem The Hug It is simple imagery about a birthday but the "unfamilial emotions" could be likened to the quality of good wine with age. An AIDS-era eulogist.
The Hug -- Thom Gunn [1929–2004, born in England, migrated to America in 1954] It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride.
I dozed, I slept. Here are the opening lines: It was your birthday, […] The Hug by Thom Gunn. Sam visited The Poetry Exchange in Manchester Central Library, as part of the celebrations of International Mother Language Day in the city. Today I read a simple poem that says something I find lovely. I dozed, I slept. Readers of Thom Gunn’s previous volume, The Man with Night Sweats, may remember the opening poem, “The Hug.” It is written in iambic lines of varying lengths, each ending with a (usually) monosyllabic rhyme word, irregularly patterned: it is what you might call an irregular ode. A renegade Cambridge-cowboy. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side.