‘Bei Hennef’ describes the effect twilight has to clear a speaker’s mind and make him see the strength of his love. Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt, How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart When will the bell ring, and end this weariness? This piece is one of three sections in the volume titled, “The Schoolmaster”. The speaker determines that the last “embers” of his life are not going to be wasted on these students. He’s in charge of sixty students who do lazy work and ignore his instruction.
Lawrence poem is told from the perspective of a teacher exhausted with his thoughtless class of students. Which weaves its way through the creeper leaves What large, dark hands are those at the window As the poem comes to its conclusion, death, or this unnamed and loosely described predator, comes for the speaker themselves.
Death is one of the primary characters in this piece. By describing what one could see on a farm, through numerous very lyrical lines, he alludes to these various themes. Lawrence is a poem about the universality of love, passion, and death. Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously. Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,Īnd at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree The final image is of the “silence of blood.” Here are a few lines: As the poem concludes, it becomes clear that one voice, the father’s, overcame the mother’s.
There are “Two voices,” a mother and father, who sound angry. The speaker describes how the branches moved through the air, making shrieking noising as if trying to slash at the wind. The poem describes a family huddling inside a home while the wind whips around outside. This is a short poem that compares domestic conflict and abuse to a storm outside the house.
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