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Apr 3, 2017 · We’ve included some of his most famous poems, but have also included some of the poems which, we feel, show Housman doing what he did best: tugging at the heartstrings through skilfully crafted verse. 1. ‘ Loveliest of trees, the cherry now ’.
The following is a (fairly extensive) selection of Housman's poetry originally published by me, Martin Hardcastle, in the early 1990s. It has been superseded by the collected Housman page and that's probably where you want to be.
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‘Bredon Hill’ by A.E. Housmanpresents a heartwarming picture of two lovers who live near Bredon, a small village in Worcestershire, England. The association of the “church bell” in the poem, injects the emotion of love into it. It connects two souls by ringing at a specific time of the day. When the bell rings from the nearby steeples, the lovers m...
‘Bredon Hill’ by A.E. Housman consists of seven stanzas. Each stanza contains five lines. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABCBB. This scheme runs throughout each stanza of the poem. This poem is a lyric, presenting the joys and griefs of a lover. Here the lover is none other than the poet himself. Apart from that, there is a rhyme-like symmetry in ...
In ‘Bredon Hill’ A.E. Housman uses different literary devices to make the poem appealing to the readers. Likewise, in the first stanza, the poet uses a personal metaphor for “happy noise”. It is also a kind of personification. In the following stanza, there is enjambment in the last two lines. The poet uses anaphora in the third and fourth lines of...
First Stanza
The first stanza sets the scene. The lyrical voice starts ‘Bredon Hill’ by describing the sound of the church bells. During the summer (“In summertime on Bredon”), the bells are a recurrent sound. They can be heard clearly (“they sound so clear”) as their sounds can be listened all over the village of Bredon. These bells can also be heard in the surrounding towns: “Round both the shires they ring them”. The lyrical voice seems to like the sound of these bells very much, as he refers to them a...
Second Stanza
The second stanza talks about a particular situation. The lyrical voice places himself in the summer scene, as he states that “Here of a Sunday morning/My love and I would lie”. The lyrical voice depicts how he and his loved one would lay down on a hill and watch other villages (“And see the coloured counties”). Moreover, the lovers hear the birds as they fly over their heads (“And hear the larks so high/About us in the sky”). This particular stanza portrays two lovers enjoying the summer env...
Third Stanza
The third stanza furthers on the church bells. The lyrical voice mentions that the church bells called his loved one, no matter where she was (“The bells would ring to call her/In valleys miles away”). The bells are personified, as the stanza narrates what the lyrical voice thinks that the sound of the bells mean (“Come all to church, good people;/Good people come and pray”). Nevertheless, despite the calling of the bells and the church, the lyrical voice says that his loved one remained with...
Alfred Edward Housman was born in 1859 and died in 1936. He was an English classical scholar and a poet. Housman’s most recognized work is A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of poems that evoke the dooms and disappointment of the English countryside. The poems in A Shropshire Ladhad a lyric and epigrammatic form with beautiful, simple, and distinctive image...
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But when the snows at Christmas On Bredon top were strown, My love rose up so early And stole out unbeknown And went to church alone.
By A. E. Housman. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now. Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride. Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.
Classic and Contemporary Poetry. A CHRISTMAS SONG, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poet's Biography. First Line: Then from his throne the godhead bowed. Last Line: To wait the coming lord! Subject (s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Waiting; Nativity, The. THEN from His throne the Godhead bowed. To human form below,
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A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems “A Shropshire Lad”. These poems, with their themes of rural life, loss, and fleeting youth, resonated with the melancholic mood of the late Victorian era.
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