Ismael Guzman
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
February 22, 2016
Ms. Stronks
ELA 8
February 22, 2016
All But Blind
In All But Blind by Walter de la Mare, there is four stanzas, there is three lines in stanza one, four in stanza two, four in three and four. Their is fifteen in total. There is repetition with “All but Blind” in stanza’s two and three. In this poem he is talking about nature and simply how the animals/nature acts at different times of day. About Walter de la Mare he was born on April 25, 1873, in Charlton, London United Kingdom. He went to St. Paul’s Cathedral School. Lucy Sophia Browning, James Edward de la Mare, he won the Carnegie Medal and died June 22, 1956, Twickenham, United Kingdom. One of his quotes are Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers. Walter de la Mare talks about nature and life, “Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers” tells me that it is got late to say sorry, you cant give gifts to ay sorry. He has many other poems like Silver, Some One, Nicholas Nye, The Listeners, A Song of Enchantment, Music, and All That’s Past. He has more quotes like hopeful and inspiring ones, for example “A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. “