Poetry
Title:
Childhood Memorize as reflected in Hood’s poem “I Remember, I
Remember”.
An
analyze by using biographical criticism
Indry
Frisiskawaty Ibrahim H. (321412026)
Haslinda
Basara (321412126)
GORONTALO STATE
OF UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF
LETTER AND CULTURE
ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT
2013
Introduction
1.1 literary criticism
judicial
criticism: Literary criticism that seeks to analyze and
explain the effect of literary work based principally or theme, organization,
technique, and style, and base the judgments on the basis of individual critics
standard-general standard on greatness and exceptional works literature.
inductive
criticism: literary criticism that outlines the parts of
literature based on the phenomena that exist objectively. inductive critics
researching literature objectively, without the use of standards that from
remain outside himself.
According to
en.wikipedia.org “A biographical criticism is a type of literary criticism in which the
life and times of a writer or a poet is broken down to see how that may have
impacted their writings. It's believed that how someone grew up, where they
lived, and what the times were like have a huge impact on how and what about
they write. Samuel Johnson, in his book Lives of the Poets, uses this method
intensively, and is one of the first people to use this criticism.”
Biographical
criticism is a form of Literary criticism which analyzes a
writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their
works of literature * m is the practice of analyzing a literary work through
the lens of an author’s experience.
1.2 Poem (Biography of poet etc)
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3
May 1845) was a British
humorist
and poet.
His son, Tom
Hood,
became a well known playwright and editor.
Early Life: He was born in London to
Thomas Hood and Elizabeth Sands in the Poultry (Cheapside)
above his father's bookshop. Hood's paternal family had been Scottish farmers
from the village of Errol near Dundee. The Elder
Hood was a partner in the business of Verner, Hood, and Sharp, and was a member
of the Associated booksellers. Hood's son, Tom Hood, claimed that his
grandfather had been the first to open up the book trade with America and he
had great success in new editions of old book.for the press a new edition of Paul
and Virginia.
Hood left his private school
master at 14 years of age and was admitted soon after into the counting
house of a friend of his family, where he "turned his stool into a Pegasus on three
legs, every foot, of course, being a dactyl or a spondee."; However, the
uncongenial profession affected his health, which was never strong, and he
began to study engraving. The exact nature and course of his study is unclear
and various sources tell different stories. Reid emphasizes his work under his
maternal uncle Robert Sands.[2]
But no papers of apprenticeship exist and we also know from his letters that he
studied with a Mr. Harris. Furthermore, Hood's daughter in her Memorials
mentions her father's association with the Le Keux brothers who were successful
engravers in the City.[3]
The labour of engraving was no better for his health than the counting house
had been, and Hood was sent to his father's relations at Dundee,
Scotland. Here he stayed in the house of his maternal aunt, Jean Keay, for
some months and then, after a falling out with her he moved on to the boarding
house of one of her friends, Mrs Butterworth, where he lived for the rest of
his time in Scotland.[4]
In Dundee, Hood made a number of close friends with whom he continue to
correspond for many years, led a healthy outdoor life, and also became a large
and indiscriminate reader. It was also during his time here that Hood began to
seriously write poetry and had his first published work, a letter to the editor
of the Dundee Advertiser.
Early writings and introduction to literary society; Before long Hood contributed humorous and poetical articles to the provincial newspapers and magazines. As a proof of his literary vocation, he used to write out his poems in printed characters, believing that this process best enabled him to understand his own peculiarities and faults, and probably unaware that Samuel Taylor Coleridge had recommended some such method of criticism when he said he thought "print settles it." On his return to London in 1818 he applied himself to engraving, enabling him later to illustrate his various humours and fancies by quaint devices.
In 1821, John Scott, the editor of the London
Magazine, was killed in a duel, and the periodical passed into the hands of some friends
of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor. His installation into this post
at once introduced him to the literary society of the time; and in becoming the
associate of John Hamilton Reynolds, Charles Lamb, Henry Cary, Thomas
de Quincey, Allan Cunningham, Bryan
Procter, Serjeant Talfourd, Hartley
Coleridge, the peasant-poet John Clare
and other contributors to the magazine, he gradually developed his own powers.
Discussion
I Remember, I remember
By
: Thomas Hood
I remember, I remember
The house where I was born
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn.
He never came a wink too soon,
Nor brought too long a day;
But now I often with the night
Had borne my breath away!
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups. –
Those flowers made of light!
The lilac’s where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday, --
The tree is living yet!
I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallow on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then,
That is so heavy now,
And summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow!
I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.
It was a childish ignorance
But now ‘tis little joy
To know I’m farther off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
***
This poem is by Thomas Hood (1799-18450)
and can be found in a number of anthologies, including the following:
The
Faber Popular Reciter (Faber, and Faber. 1978)
Immortal
Poems of The English (Simon and Schuster 1952)
Favourite
Poems Old and New (Doubleday,1957)
The
Top 500 poems (Columbia University Press, 1992)
I
Remember, I Remember (Red Fox, 1993)
The little given is sometimes, ‘ I
Remember, I Remember’, other times ‘Past and Present’.
The
part “But now I often with the night. Had borne my breath away!” suggest us if
hood wishes to died, because he childhood is more beautiful than his adulthood.
The
part “And where my brother set. The laburnum on his birthday, --. The tree is
living yet!” this part tells about hood’s family members. It make us believe
that if the tragic things have been occurred especially his brother, because of
consumption.
The
part “My spirit flew in feathers then, that is so heavy now,” it suggest us if
the bliss didn’t last long. Everything will be change.
This
poems tells about Thomas childhood.
Thomas described about the situation of
his house where he was born. In that house he felt everything’s like quickly,
it’s because in his childhood there are many things that beautiful. But now, he
feel everyday’s very long because of some reason.
In
the second stanza, Thomas described about the situation when his brother’s
born, the situation of the landscape where he spent his life is very beautiful,
He describe if it felt peace. But now
everything’s felt overcrowd and it so hard to find the situation like that. The
life was gone, he’s beautiful childhood was gone. The beautiful landscape, his
childish ignorance, everything was gone, and become the memory. Besides, his
brother was dead.
The
hometown where he spent his life is very beautiful, contrast with the situation
in this era. Hood tried to drag us to memorize about our childhood, to
contemplate about the changed of situation. He also tried to show how
everything’s changed.
Thomas
parents had been Scottish
farmers from the village of Errol near Dundee.
So, the place that Thomas said in the poetry
probably is in the Errol village. But if we evaluate from the first stanza, the
Thomas said that “I remember, I remember. The house where
I was born”. So, the place which intended here’s London, England.
In
the early of Thomas carrier. Tom Hood, his son said if her grandfather who’s a
farmer that had been the first to open up the book trade with America and he
had great success in new editions of old book. And it made everything’s going
easy for Thomas Hood to faced with the art world.
This poem included in the figurative
language is used Repetition. Because the words “ I remember, I remember” always
emphasized in the each stanza. It means the author’s memorize is as a subject
matter of this poetry. The author emphasized if his memorize as a subject
matter because he has a memory about his childhood and he tells about it.
This poetry included in the Ballad
poem because this poem tells a past story of the poet. ballade is French in origin and
made up 0f 28 lines, usually three stanzas of 8 lines and a concluding stanzas,
called envoy, of 4 lines. the last line of each stanza is the same and the
scheme is ababbcbc and the envoy’s is bcbc.
And the last, the theme of this poem
is the memory.
Conclusion
I got a conclusion if every poems
has a story, from the society, the other people, or from the author itself.
Every author has a purposed why their make a poem. And every poems has a
correlation with the author/poet. This poem have a figurative language, it’s
used repetition because always repeat the words “I remember, I remember” as a
emphasis if this poem tells about the memorize of the author. So, I conclude if
the poem tells about the Thomas biography when he was a child, and until now
when everything was gone he tried to remember that.
References
·
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hood
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