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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was French by birth but spent most of his life in England, becoming naturalised as British in 1902. He was an extremely prolific writer in a number of fields as well as being a poet, and he even found time to serve as a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1906 to 1910.
Although he wrote a great deal of “serious” poetry, he is best remembered today for his satirical and children’s poems. The latter included his 1896 collection “The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts” (followed by “More Beasts (for Worse Children)” in 1910) and “Cautionary Tales for Children” which appeared in 1907. There were eleven poems in this latter collection, plus a short introduction, with all the poems being written in rhyming couplets in a mock-heroic style.
“Matilda Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death” is one of the best-known Cautionary Tales. It comprises 50 lines of rhyming couplets, split into two sections of 30 and 20 lines. In the first section we meet Matilda, whose age is not given, and her Aunt, with whom Matilda appears to live in a large London house. We learn about Matilda’s habit of lying, and her Aunt’s opposite characteristic, at the very start:
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,
It made one Gasp and Stretch one’s Eyes;
Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,
Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth,
Attempted to Believe Matilda:
The effort very nearly killed her.
The mock-heroic tone is thus established straight away, aided by the use of upper-case initial letters for the most Important Words, except in the final line quoted above where one might expect the reader’s voice to drop to a lower register if the poem is being read aloud. The rhyming of “Matilda” with “killed her” also helps with the humour of the poem.
Matilda calls the Fire Brigade to the house, who arrive in force and proceed to run “their ladders through a score / Of windows on the Ball Room Floor; / And took Peculiar Pains to Souse / The Pictures up and down the House”. Matilda’s Aunt has great trouble in “showing them they were not needed; / And even then she had to pay / To get the Men to go away!” That is the final line of the first section, which does not need any more to tell the story and give the reader a fair idea of the conversation that Matilda will shortly have with her Aunt.
The second part of the poem is its denouement. It should surprise no-one that the outcome is a disastrous one, especially as the plot has already been given away by the poem’s title. The light tone is beautifully continued by the use of apparently extraneous detail in the opening lines:
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