by Amy Lowell
 

Structure and Meaning: An Introduction to Literature. Ed. Anthony Dube, John Karl Franson, Russell E. Murphy, and James W. Parins. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Comnpany, 1976

Response by Angela Fushtey

This poem is a long narrative poem written by Amy Lowell that is 107 lines long.  It can be found in the text noted above as Structure and Meaning.

I found this poem to be most interesting. It describes a girl in a garden and how she used to go there with her lover. The poem seems so happy yet takes a turn for the worse without any foreshadowing that something bad might happen. She is soon given the message that her soon to be husband is dead and she begins to talk of what future they were to have but never will because of a battle he died in.

I really enjoyed this poem because of the wonderful descriptionas that are given about the garden and all the beauty that is in the garden.. I also like how the use of the word patterns is interperted into the poem. The sudden out burst at the end suites the ending well:
                                                   "In a pattern called a war.
                                                   Christ ! What are patterns for?"
 
 

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