Today’s poem owes a strong debt to Cowper’s “The Poplar Field” but also features a few stylistic echoes of Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” all while achieving a (superior?) effect of its own.
What Sean has to say about the human significance of trees and their loss is very relevant to us Brits as the trial of two (apparent, alleged) idiots who cut down the sycamore of Sycamore Gap, a famous and much-loved tree on Hadrian's Wall in the North of England. I imagine that not all your US readers will know about it, but it's been big here in the UK. I went to the Wall a few years ago and the tree was a highlight of my visit as it was for many many others.
What Sean has to say about the human significance of trees and their loss is very relevant to us Brits as the trial of two (apparent, alleged) idiots who cut down the sycamore of Sycamore Gap, a famous and much-loved tree on Hadrian's Wall in the North of England. I imagine that not all your US readers will know about it, but it's been big here in the UK. I went to the Wall a few years ago and the tree was a highlight of my visit as it was for many many others.
Mr. Johnson, I have a question about the line that reads, “Since country is so tender
To touch, her being só slender,”:
What is the reason for the accent over the “o” of the second “só?”