Question

Please give me summary of Nicholas Nye

Answer 1

Summary of the Poem: Nicholas Nyeby Walter de la Mare (For Grade VIII) This poem is about a donkey, namedNicholas Nye, which lives in a meadow (grazing land) in an orchard (garden of fruit trees). ... One day, the poet is inspired to write a poem on the donkey.

Answer 2

Walter de la Mare's poem "Nicholas Nye" is set in a meadow with an orchard. The speaker of the poem spends all of his days, from dawn until dusk, in the meadow where an old donkey, which the speaker calls Nicholas Nye, lives.

We can tell the poem is set in a meadow beginning at dawn due to the opening three lines of the second stanza describing the donkey:

Alone with his shadow he'd drowse in the meadow,
Lazily swinging his tail,
At break of day he used to bray--.
If the speaker was not there with the donkey in the meadow at sunrise, the speaker would not know that the donkey was braying at sunrise. In addition, we know the speaker does not leave the meadow until sundown due to the first four lines of the final stanza:

But dusk would come in the apple boughs,
...
And home I'd trudge to mine.
The central theme of the poem concerns empathizing with feelings of loneliness in one's old age. In the poem, the speaker describes the donkey as being "more than a score of donkey's years." A score is 20 years, which is rather old for a donkey. While we don't know the speaker's age, we know that he feels a deep connection with the donkey and has plenty of time on his hands to loaf around the meadow all day long. The connection between the speaker and donkey is revealed when the speaker describes the donkey as seeming to smile at him and says that "[s]omething much better than words" passed between them. Due to this connection and the manner in which the speaker spends his time, we can assume the speaker is also in his old age and feels a sense of comradeship with the old donkey because the donkey is just as old and lonely as he is. Due to their mutual old age and loneliness, both the donkey and speaker are able to feel empathy for each other, a feeling the theme of the poem promotes.

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