Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Is My Team Ploughing" is a poem by A. E. Housman appearing in A Shropshire Lad. It is a conversation between a dead man and his still living friend. Towards the end of the poem it is implied that his friend is now with the girl he left behind when he died.While writing the poem, Housman borrows from the simple style of traditional folk ballads, featuring a question-and-answer format in a conversation.The text, along with other poems from A Shropshire Lad, has been famously set to score by several English composers, including George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney. Vaughan Williams omitted the third and fourth verses, to Housman's annoyance, writing years later that he felt “a composer has a perfect right artistically to set any portion of a poem he chooses provided he does not actually alter the sense” of it. “I also feel,” he added, “that a poet should be grateful to anyone who fails to perpetuate such lines as: “‘The goal stands up, the Keeper / Stands up to keep the Goal.’”. }
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- Is_My_Team_Ploughing abstract ""Is My Team Ploughing" is a poem by A. E. Housman appearing in A Shropshire Lad. It is a conversation between a dead man and his still living friend. Towards the end of the poem it is implied that his friend is now with the girl he left behind when he died.While writing the poem, Housman borrows from the simple style of traditional folk ballads, featuring a question-and-answer format in a conversation.The text, along with other poems from A Shropshire Lad, has been famously set to score by several English composers, including George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney. Vaughan Williams omitted the third and fourth verses, to Housman's annoyance, writing years later that he felt “a composer has a perfect right artistically to set any portion of a poem he chooses provided he does not actually alter the sense” of it. “I also feel,” he added, “that a poet should be grateful to anyone who fails to perpetuate such lines as: “‘The goal stands up, the Keeper / Stands up to keep the Goal.’”".