Question

Summary of the poem nicholas nye by walter de la mare

Answer 1

The poem is about a donkey which is named Nicholas Nye, which lives in a meadow (grazing land) in an orchard ( garden of fruit trees).

It seems that the poet used to visit that place to relax himself and lie down in the land of the orchard.  He would watch the donkeys from there.

Walter de la mare poem ''Nicholas Nye'' the central theme of the poem concerns empathizing with feelings of loneliness in ones old age.

The speaker describes the donkey being as being ''more than a score of a donkeys year''.

While we do not know the age of the speaker 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 the day long.

The connection between the speaker and the donkey is revealed when the speaker describes the donkey as seaming to smile at him and saying that something much better than words passed between them.

Due to their mutual old age and loneliness both the donkey and the speaker are able to feel empathy for each other, a feeling of the theme that the poem portrays.