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Even as I was typing out that little poem I was pretty sure it wasn't a great choice. So, my apologies.Is hail a verb here? I don´t understand the poem
Hail has two meanings. 'Hail from' means to come from or to have been born in a particular place. It doesn't get used much these days but it's not completely obsolete. That's why the poet used it. So you could live in London and be having the inevitable conversation about where you were originally from and, depending on who you were talking to and your age, you might say, 'oh, I originally hail from the North.' The other use of 'hail' is literally 'to hail a taxi'. To wave or call a taxi over in the street.
So Bilston is saying he's trying to 'hail' the taxi (wave the taxi over) all the way from Birmingham (in the Midlands, about 100 miles from London).
So that's my cumbersome explanation which is longer than the poem itself and I think we can all agree that I need to raise my game and make better choices in future. Or just avoid poetry altogether, lol.
Here's an idea. I'll just go back to posting photos of random sh!t. I'm good at that.
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