On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven, The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft. To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark. To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work. . Dylan Thomas
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In the poem above, Somerset Maugham expresses his discontent with his life and the way in which he had been living it. He is depressed because he has reached a low point in his life and he can think of little else but death. He is also unhappy with the way in which he has been able to live and has begun to feel that he will never be able to change his situation. He has reached a point where he feels that no matter what he does, nothing will change for him. The only thing he can do is to accept the current situation and make the best of it.

Source: Collected Poems

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