#Spring days of my life movie#
It seems to resemble the movie Return to me but as a good drama buddy of mine says, My Spring Days is more low-key. Image (bottom): A view of cherry blossoms opening during the spring (picture credit: Bruce Emmerling) Wikimedia Commons.The Spring Days of My Life is a drama that can easily capture the heart of a sentimental person like myself. Image (top): Portrait of William Shakespeare, Wikimedia Commons, public domain. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. Or enter the colder world of winter with our pick of the greatest Christmas poems. What would you say are the best poems about springtime? Have we missed any classics off this list? Check out our poems for March, or step into warmer weather with our selection of classic poems about summer, or our pick of poems about the English countryside. If you’re looking for more great poems, the best anthology of English poetry out there, in our opinion is the superb The Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Christopher Ricks. Follow the link above to read Chaucer’s opening section to his General Prologue in full. But Geoffrey Chaucer‘s majestic description of April (complete with its famous showers) is among the most celebrated descriptions of springtime in all English poetry, and it rings as true now as it did over 600 years ago when he wrote it. Okay, well here we haven’t got in mind the whole prologue – joyous and masterly as it is. Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages… The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘ The General Prologue‘ to The Canterbury Tales. The trees’ age is ‘written down in rings of grain’, after all. As well as his trenchantly sardonic poems about aspects of modern life, Larkin was also a great nature poet, and ‘The Trees’ is a fine brief lyric about the cycle of the seasons but also the sense that each spring is not just a rebirth, but also (shades of Rossetti and Dickinson again here) a reminder of death. This first appeared in Larkin’s final volume, High Windows, in 1974.
See the link above to read Rossetti’s poem in full. You can learn more about Rossetti’s life and work here. As with much of Rossetti’s poetry, however, death is never far behind – as with Dickinson’s poem above, there is a melancholy sense of the transient beauty of spring. This poem describes the way life begins all over again in the spring, and does so through the use of some beautifully vivid images. To scorch the world up in his noontide hour… He spreads their table that they nothing lack, –
#Spring days of my life full#
Follow the link above to read the full poem and learn more about it.īefore cleft swallows speed their journey back This is not as famous as, say, Sonnet 18 (‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’), which is a shame – it’s a wonderful evocation of spring, and, as with Tennyson, it’s a bittersweet poem about the season. As a consequence, spring seemed like a winter to him. One of the sonnets addressed to the ‘Fair Youth’, this poem sees Shakespeare bemoaning the fact that he could not appreciate all the beauty of spring around him because he was absent from the young man. That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him… Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, When proud pied April dress’d in all his trim Follow the link above to read the poem in full.įrom you have I been absent in the spring, One of the best poems in a great long poetic sequence. What grows in the speaker’s breast as spring comes into blossom is regret – regret that his dear friend is gone, that spring is a reminder that the world continues to turn and life carries on, but Tennyson’s friend does not return. H. (1850) – written in memory of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died young – offers a more bittersweet take on the arrival of spring. This canto from Alfred, Lord Tennyson‘s long elegy In Memoriam A. Follow the link above to read the full poem and learn more about it.Īlfred, Lord Tennyson, Canto CXV from In Memoriam. The final stanza of Dickinson’s poem also seems to acknowledge what we now call ‘SAD’ or Seasonal Affective Disorder, with the passing of spring affecting our contentedness. Written in around 1864 but not published until 1896 (as with many of Dickinson’s poems), ‘A Light Exists in Spring’ beautifully captures the way that spring slowly appears in our consciousness, like a light in the distance.
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