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can you help me for this poem?!thanks?
Empty House by Stephen Spender
I'm from Italy and I need your help for a test: can you tell me something to tell the teacher about this poem?for example what do you feel reading it or something about the structure..thanks you a lot!
EMPTY HOUSE
Then,when the child was gone,
I was alone
In the house, suddenly grown vast.Each noise
Explained its orign away
Animal , vegetable , mineral ,
Nail,creaking board, or little mouse.
But mostly there was quiet of after a battle
Round the room where lay
The soldiers and the paint-box , all the toys.
Then, when I went to tidy these away,
My hands refused to serve:
My body was this house,
Each plaything that he’d touched, an exposed nerve.
thanks!
i think maybe the poem is about a child who has died and the pain, anguish and silence that the narrator now feels in the empty house which had once been made a battle ground of an ill child.
The exposed nerves basically means that each thing that the child has touched has practically been grown over with nerves and maybe the narrator is unable to touch these things in fear of breaking down in pain.
There is also a sense of isolation - since this presumed death the house has grown large and every noise is heard because of this.
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