Cathedral Builders explores the lives of the men who built the Cathedral, their families and their fellow workers and the story behind the church.
Cathedral Builders by John O. Thomas: Summary
Cathedral Builder’s Summary The single-line poem Cathedral Builders was broken into 26 lines in order to understand the meaning of the entire poem. The poet observes a group of builders building a cathedral step by step. The latter part of the poem reveals the social segregation: though they build the cathedral, they belong to the working class, and they are not given the front seats at the church. Their hatred towards the class division is visible by they ‘envied the fat bishop his warm boots.’ However, they are proud to be a part of a collective effort to build one of the most magnificent, ornate buildings on the earth. It is, of course, the builders who have the last word in this poem: at the end of one single sentence, which has conveyed work, life, love, illness, children, marriage, happiness, unhappiness – the whole story of collective life – it is the builders who have the right to stand back and stake their claim to the completed building, in the superbly bathetic, idiomatic ph…
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