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Tracing the basic “plot” of the poem, we see the grandmother turn to more practical affairs like adding more wood to the stove and preparing the tea in the kettle. The poem ends with both characters absorbed back in their own actions. Please note All comments are eligible for publication in The News-Letter. And her teacup full of dark brown tears. Birdlike, the almanac Busies herself about the stove, The grandmother cannot rise out of her mourning, while the child continually draws houses and wonders about the man with buttons. Reading the jokes from the almanac, But secretly, while the grandmother Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896, Reading is a powerful tool for self-actualization, Hear ye, holiday travelers: Some lesser-known tips as your journeys commence, Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation is the Democrats’ biggest failure, When life gives you apples, make apple pie, CovidSMS seeks to address the digital divide.
It was to be, says the Marvel Stove. the way the rain must dance on the house. beside the Little Marvel Stove, is watching the teakettle's small hard tears She shivers and says she thinks the house | December 8, 2016. A sestina is a very strict form of poetry. September rain falls on the house. Dance like mad on the hot black stove, laughing and talking to hide her tears. Hovers above the old grandmother It wasn’t until last week, when I came across the poem again in my Norton Anthology, that I realized the poem was a sestina, explaining the circular imagery and motions throughout the poem. September rain falls on the house. I appreciate that this sestina, like all good poems, offers readers a deeper meaning than its literal presentation on the page and that it accomplishes this feat by embracing and taking advantage of its structural format rather than succumbing to its limitations.
Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
And the child draws another inscrutable house. The grandmother is described as “laughing and talking to hide her tears” in the first stanza, but later in the poem, her teacup is “full of dark brown tears.” The lines showing her ever-present pain and inner turmoil are interwoven with the lines showing the child’s contentment as she “shows [her pictures] proudly to the grandmother.” They are interwoven because the sestina form dictates it. Then the child “Sestina” begins with the image of “September rain” falling on the house of a grandmother and her grandchild, both of whom are in the kitchen watching the tea kettle boil and reading an almanac.
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