r/Hozier • u/gingergeorgie • 11d ago

Most poetic lyrics?

I'm teaching my Year 9 class Unseen Poetry at the moment and so far it has just been a fantastic opportunity to shoehorn in my favourite non-conventional literature.

I'd love to create an activity where they annotate a part of a Hozier song.

Any ideas? So far I've considered Talk (potentially inappropriate/unseen element might depend on a lot of prior knowledge about Greek mythology) and Abstract (Psychopomp) - just because I love the song.

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u/claudiafaceoff 11d ago

Sometimes I think I owe my life

To flowers that were left here by my mother

Ain’t that like them, gifting life to us again?

This life lived mostly underground

Unknowing either sight nor sound

Til reaching up to sunlight

Just to be ripped out by the stem

Sensing only know it’s dying

Drying out then drowning blindly

Blooming forth its every colour

In the moments it has left

To share the space with simple living things

Infinitely suffering

But fighting off like all creation

The absence of itself

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u/Happy-Rule-5113 11d ago

I always love the fact that he follows up this beautiful, brilliant prose with just a simple “anyways”

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u/claudiafaceoff 10d ago

It’s almost infuriating, like “don’t ‘anyway’ me; you know what you just did!”