Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von A Shropshire Lad
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will love this book if you enjoy short poems you can read aloud, songs of the countryside, tales of soldiers and sweethearts, and quiet thoughts about youth, time and the seasons.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A beacon burns on Clee Hill, and a country lad hears the drums of the army calling him away. It gives you farm boys, soldiers, lovers and the dead, all in plain, singing lines. First, meet the world of the poems.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A county of hills, towns and young menFree
- 2Spring is bright because it is brief
- 3Soldiers, early death and young glory
- 4Love, loss and the voices of the dead
- 5Exile in London and how to read aloud
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A county of hills, towns and young men
The poems are set in Shropshire, a county on the Welsh border. Housman names real places: Ludlow with its tower and fair, Wenlock Edge, Clee, Bredon Hill, Shrewsbury and the rivers Severn and Teme.
The opening poem shows the tone. Beacons burn on the hills for the Queen's fifty years on the throne, and the living remember friends who died in far wars, with Shropshire names read on tombstones by the Nile. Festival and grief stand side by side from the first page.
So the place is both a real map and a lost home. Listen for the names, because they act like a chorus that returns again and again.
That’s 1 of 5 key points.
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About this edition
Every format is free to start, and print and large print are at cost.
- LengthAbout 9,200 words
- Reading timeAbout 35 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary; paperback, hardcover and large print at cost
- LanguagesEnglish and 11 other languages
Questions about A Shropshire Lad
What is A Shropshire Lad about?
It is a book of sixty-three short poems about country lads in Shropshire. They cover young love, soldiers, early death, the seasons and homesickness, all in simple, song-like verse.
Who wrote A Shropshire Lad?
A. E. Housman wrote it. He was an English poet and a scholar of Latin, who died in 1936. This book is his best-known collection of poems.
What is the poem To an Athlete Dying Young about?
It is a poem about a town's champion runner, carried home in triumph and later in death. The speaker finds comfort in the thought that he leaves before his fame fades.
Is A Shropshire Lad easy to read?
The poems are short, use plain words and have strong rhythm and rhyme. Each one stands alone, so you can read a single poem in a minute or two.
What does the land of lost content mean?
It is a phrase from Poem XL. It means the happy time of youth and home that the speaker sees in memory as a distant country he cannot return to.