what have you learnt about poetry from this poem?

Hey guys,
first thing first, I’m supposed to analyse a poem and reflect on it. so here’s the poem:
The Mother by Robert William Service
Your children grow from you apart,
Afar and still afar;
And yet it should rejoice your heart
To see how glad they are;
In school and sport, in work and play,
And last, in wedded bliss
How others claim [...]

April 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Discussion | 10 comments

Help analyze this poem, should be an easy one?

“There’s something in your face, Michael, I’ve seen it all the day;
There’s something quare that wasn’t there when first ye wint away. . . .”

“It’s just the Army life, mother, the drill, the left and right,
That puts the stiffinin’ in yer spine and locks yer jaw up tight. . . .”

“There’s something in your eyes, [...]

March 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Discussion | One comment

Hate by Robert William Service (poem)?

I had a bitter enemy,
His heart to hate he gave,
And when I died he swore that he
Would dance upon my grave;
That he would leap and laugh because
A livid corpse was I,
And that’s the reason why I was
In no great haste to die.

And then – such is the quirk of fate,
One day with joy I [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Discussion | 3 comments