The Village Blacksmith - Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was never really into poetry. I just didn't get it.
For most poems, I can't get the rhythm just by reading the words on the page. Even if I read the poem aloud, I still can't get the rhythm.
This poem I do get. I understand the imagery, and I get the rhythm.
I especially like how I came to know of it.
I was listening to "Car Talk" on NPR one day, and the poem was mentioned in their weekly puzzler.
The question was "what is a smithy?"
Turns out, a smithy is the workshop of a [black]smith.
So, in one of those strange gyrations of the universe that keep things interesting, I learned a new word, and discovered a poem that I liked - while listening to two brothers talk about cars on the radio.
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Posted by David at October 11, 2002 07:33 PM
My mother used to recite this poem to me when I was little, and I always loved it, although I only rem. the first verse. She was born in the south of Ireland in 1910 and grew up on a farm where they had work horses, so she often saw the Blacksmith at work. There is something about this poem that has a special meaning for me, it has been in my head for a few days and so I was delighted to find it so easily when I decided to check the net.Thank you.
Posted by: roisin on August 7, 2003 04:53 PMMy mother used to recite this poem to me when I was little, and I always loved it, although I only rem. the first verse. She was born in the south of Ireland in 1910 and grew up on a farm where they had work horses, so she often saw the Blacksmith at work. There is something about this poem that has a special meaning for me, it has been in my head for a few days and so I was delighted to find it so easily when I decided to check the net.Thank you.
Posted by: roisin on August 7, 2003 04:53 PMI read it as a prisoner of war in camp Beale, California. I just loved it, but I didn't learn it by heart. Now and then I rememberd; rememberd just a few lines and each time I regretted not to know the whole. Now I have found it, more by chance than by searching and I am very happy about it!
Posted by: Niesner on November 19, 2003 01:27 PM