The poet wrote that this poem's third and fourth quatrains could be played for comedy, specifically in the images of the title character, who "with rod" made the lazy geese scuttle "from their noon apple-dreams.
The poet wrote that this poem's third and fourth quatrains could be played for comedy, specifically in the images of the title character, who "with rod" made the lazy geese scuttle "from their noon apple-dreams." The second stanza says of the title character, "Her wars were bruited in our high window," [*] while the poem opens by remarking "There was such speed in her little body, / And such lightness in her footfall." Robert Penn Warren claimed that the poem's effect was embodied in the words astonishes and vexed in a study of the poet, Penn Warren's former teacher. FTP, name this elegy written on the death of a neighbor's youngest girl, a poem by John Crowe Ransom.
The poet wrote that this poem's third and fourth quatrains could be played for comedy, specifically in the images of the title character, who "with rod" made the lazy geese scuttle "from their noon apple-dreams.
“{Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter}”