GR translation: shaken skies pure as a cyclorama

[Dave Monroe]

"Clarion'd to vengeance by shriek-shaken skies" (!)

https://books.google.com/books?id=cgQzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA192

https://books.google.com/books?id=YkBAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89

Ebenezer Elliott

"Ebenezer Elliott (17 March 1781 – 1 December 1849) was an English
poet, known as the Corn Lawrhymer for his leading the fight to repeal
the Corn Laws which were causing hardship and starvation among the
poor. Though a factory owner himself, his single-minded devotion to
the welfare of the labouring classes won him a sympathetic reputation
long after his poetry ceased to be read."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Elliott

The Corn Law Rhymer & Poet of the Poor

http://www.judandk.force9.co.uk/elly.htm

Corn Law Rhymes

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/cornlaws/clrhymes.htm

"At Suvla when a sickening curse of sound
Came hurtling from the shrapnel-shaken skies ...." (!)

http://fantastic-writers-and-the-great-war.com/war-experiences/geoffrey-dearmer/

http://archive.org/stream/poems00dear/poems00dear_djvu.txt

Also, e.g., ...

"The shaken skies"

https://books.google.com/books?id=jE8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA25

"thunder-shaken skies"

https://books.google.com/books?id=dSlYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495

"From the earth subdued, unto the shaken skies!"

https://books.google.com/books?id=PElgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA97

"Since the sun first flared through the shaken skies."

https://books.google.com/books?id=ckQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shaken skies may be a compressed Biblical allusion.....Mark 13:25 and
> Matthew 24:29 ...
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 6, 2015, at 6:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A cyclorama is an artificial 3D 360 portrayal attempting to display reality.
> Virtual History. An early attempt at a Disney small-world ride.
>
> On Sunday, September 6, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Again, this is poetry. But the contrast is pre versus post Hiroshima
>> explosion. And the message portrayed as a color shift in the perceptible
>> field of reality. A new reality.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Sunday, September 6, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The moment the comb contacts his head, the colonel begins to speak.
>>> “Ordinarily, we’d spend no more than 24 hours on a house-to-house sweep.
>>> Sundown to sundown, house to house. There’s a quality of black and gold to
>>> either end of it, that way, silhouettes, shaken skies pure as a cyclorama.
>>> But these sunsets, out here, I don’t know. Do you suppose something has
>>> exploded somewhere? Really—somewhere in the East? Another Krakatoa? Another
>>> name at least that exotic . . the colors are so different now. Volcanic ash,
>>> or any finely-divided substance, suspended in the atmosphere, can diffract
>>> the colors strangely. Did you know that, son? Hard to believe, isn’t it?
>>>
>>> What does "shaken" indicate here?
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