Tag: Nature
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Poem on his Birthday (part i) – Dylan Thomas
Stanza 1. In this poem, it’s Thomas’s ‘thirty-fifth‘ birthday. It’s just another ‘sandgrain‘ day in the ongoing hourglass of his life, except that it’s the half-way point in the Biblically allotted ‘three score years and ten’. The ‘mustardseed sun‘, however, the small, orange sun of late October, is more than three-quarters of the way along […]
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William Wordsworth’s God
It seems to me that Wordsworth, in these “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”, is describing a kind of experience that lies, for more than a few people, at the root of what could be called ‘a religious sensibility’. Once upon a time, human beings thought the universe was very small – a […]
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The Eagle
Alfred Lord Tennyson wordsinthewoods – WordPress.com This poem is a masterpiece of concision. In just 6 lines, it packs a punch and, in doing so, includes some ‘tricks of the trade’. There’s alliteration. Note the initial letter ‘c’, 4 times in the 1st two lines. There’s caesura. The pause at the comma in line 3 […]
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Delius – Romance, Emotion and Beauty in Music
Since I’ve now written a fair number of blogs, it’s time I put in a word for one of my favourite composers, Frederick Delius, who was born in England of German parents in 1862. He knew he had to be a composer when he spent a year or so in Florida, and was utterly entranced, […]
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