Cataract of Lodore

Cataract of Lodore

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Cumbria
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caption="Lodore Falls shown within Cumbria"
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"The Cataract of Lodore" is a poem by the English poet Robert Southey which describes the Lodore Falls on the Watendlath Beck just above Derwent Water in Cumbria. (To describe them as a cataract is considerable poetic licence.) The poem is a masterpiece of onomatopoeia, employing some of the most clever and evocative language ever used to describe a natural feature.

The Powell Expedition named the a canyon on the Green River in the U.S. state of Colorado the Gates of Lodore after this poem.

External links

* [http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/lodore2.htm Text of the poem]
* [http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/lodore.htm Page about the falls - with picture]


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