The speaker of this poem remarks on how the title character's "wars were bruited in our high window" as she "took arms against her shadow" "among the orchard trees and beyond."
The speaker of this poem remarks on how the title character's "wars were bruited in our high window" as she "took arms against her shadow" "among the orchard trees and beyond." The title character "with rod" ends the "noon-apple dream" of the geese that are the dominant image of the third and fourth stanzas of this poem, which is often paired with the author's "Dead Boy." The author's best-known pupil commented on the words "astonishes" and "vexed," which the speaker uses to describe the title character's "brown study." For ten points, name this elegy in which the toll of the title objects signifies the death of a little girl, the most famous poem of John Crowe Ransom.
The speaker of this poem remarks on how the title character's "wars were bruited in our high window" as she "took arms against her shadow" "among the orchard trees and beyond."
“{Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter}”