Question

explanation of the poem I REMEMBER I REMEMBER

Answer 1

Hi,
In the poem, Hood initially portrays his childhood and the house where he was born. Those beautiful days where the sun rays came and beautiful days were there in the proportion. However in the last two lines, he says about his present situation and how he wished the night had tolerated his breath.

The second stanza describes about the days of his childhood, where he sees and feels the beautiful colors of roses and lilies and the lilacs and talks about a tree that he and his brother spent days even on his brother’s day.

However in the third stanza, he gives a combination feel of his past and present. He says about playing with a swing and enjoying the breeze and wind and he was all energetic and high in sprits and when he recalls those times with his present, he does not even have the energy to lift a brow. The pool water was very cool and enjoyable, but now it is not even sufficient to cool his fever.

The last para say that he remembers how he used to think in the wildest manners about tress and their heights that they reached the sky which was so childish and now as a frown up, he misses all those thoughts and days and he understand that nothing is attainable that he desires for at this point of time.

Hope it helped!