Thievery, mockery, and rebellion: The graveyard in
David Bottoms “Wrestling Angels.”
In “Wrestling Angels,” David Bottoms assumes the voice of men walking through
a graveyard, stealing from and destroying the gravesites. The thieves and the men vandalizing make their way through the graveyard first stealing what they can and is only valuable to them. ... By stealing and vandalizing in the graveyard the men are making a mockery of and rebelling religion.
Bottoms begins the poem by describing what the thieves are carrying and where they are visiting:
With crowbars and drag chains
we walk tonight through a valley of tombs
where the only sounds are frogs in the reeds
and the river whispering at the foot of Rose Hill
that we have come to salvage from the dead.
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