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Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. [ 1 ] The most famous of Smith's poems, [ 2 ] it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distant movements in the water had been mistaken for waving. [ 3 ]
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, [n 1] born in San Francisco in 1868, was the second child of Samuel Osbourne, an American military officer, and his wife, Fanny, born in 1840. [n 2] Samuel Osbourne being a "womanizer," [2] Fanny left him in 1875 and moved to Europe with her three children, "partly to escape as much as possible from unpleasant associations and partly to give her daughter the advantage of ...
A fact from Not Waving but Drowning appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2009 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
Not Waving but Drowning is the title of a 1957 poem by British poet Stevie Smith. It may also refer to: Not Waving, but Drowning, a 2019 album by British rapper Loyle Carner. This album contains a track by the same name featuring an elderly woman, who speaks about the 1957 poem by Stevie Smith. Not Waving but Drowning, 2012 drama film
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While distress and panic may sometimes take place beforehand, drowning itself is quick and often silent. [1] [2] A person close to the point of drowning is unable to keep their mouth above water long enough to breathe properly and is unable to shout. Lacking air, their body cannot perform the voluntary efforts involved in waving or seeking ...
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