CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH
This is what a concluding paragraph might look like. It would be worth your while going back to the economics essay an draw comparisons.
You will notice straight away, that the principles enunciated are exactly the same, though the subject matter is so different.
While it may be true that in certain moments Foulcher could be accused of teetering on the verge of the perils outlined by Geoff Page (of appearing ‘self-absorbed’, ‘mundane’ and ‘naïve’), for the most part he not only transcends those perils, but actually creates something quite original, complex and moving on a scale that far exceeds the constraints that define the self-imposed limits of an imagist poet like Robert Gray. The religious imagery, for example, to convey the dawn in ‘The Tent’ is quite stunning in its unpretentiousness and yet it is great complexity in delivered with deceptive simplicity: ‘The sun’s clear vowel/shocks the horizon./This is the eighth day.” Secularist and religious come together here on sacred ground that is common to them both. That is a great achievement. While the ‘clear vowel’ reminds us indirectly of the biblical command that there be light, it has an authenticity of its own (the ‘o’ shape of the sun, and the other vowel sounds of an awakening bird life like the ‘ahrr’ of the crows perhaps, and the image of the orb of the sun rising above the horizon line and sitting there like a note). Indeed ‘The Tent’ is a great example of the achievement of Foulcher in casting religious ideas and thoughts about death and the fear of dying in secular and everyday language accessible to all.
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