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Poet Mohini Gupta reads from Dorothy Bonarjee s Eisteddfod-winning poem
Poet Mohini Gupta reads from Dorothy Bonarjee s Eisteddfod-winning poem
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Indian student Dorothy Bonarjeee won the University College of Wales Eisteddfod in 1914 with a poem on the subject of the Welsh soldier, Owain Lawgoch.
The poem had to be written according to a prescribed metre and length. Dorothy Bonarjee wrote in English rather than Welsh, which was permissible in 1914.
Here, the Indian poet Mohini Gupta reads the 10th stanza of the winning poem, and the final lines:
He told him of the lonely rock-strewn shore,
The dark, brown sea-weed lying on the sand. ....

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