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The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
The later poem recreates the "Valley of Seclusion" image in the form of a dell. Even the image of a passerby looking in on the cottage found in Reflection is repeated. Similarly, the compulsion to enter into the world and help humanity is included, but it is altered from being motivated by guilt to a warning message against a possible invasion ...
The poem was published in the October 1796 Monthly Magazine, [22] under the title Reflections on Entering into Active Life. A poem Which Affects Not to be Poetry. [23] Reflections was included in Coleridge's 28 October 1797 collection of poems and the anthologies that followed. [22] The themes of Reflections are similar to those of The Eolian Harp.
According to the critic Carl Woodring, "She Dwelt" can also be read as an elegy. He views the poem and the Lucy series in general as elegiac "in the sense of sober meditation on death or a subject related to death", and that they have "the economy and the general air of epitaphs in the Greek Anthology ... if all elegies are mitigations of death, the Lucy poems are also meditations on simple ...
Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.
This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher, for thirty-six years he has been on a ...
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820–43); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1845–) 1807 Admonition 1806 "Well may'st thou halt-and gaze with brightening eye!" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 Beloved Vale! I said, "when I shall con 1806 " 'Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con" Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...