Summary of the poem 'The Train' by Mary Elizabeth
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A green eye-and a red-in the dark.
Thunder-smoke-and a spark.
It is there-it is here-flashed by.
Whither will the wild thing fly?
It is rushing, tearing thro— the night,
Rending her gloom in its flight/
It shatters her silence with shrieks,
Where is it the wild thing seeks?
Alas! For it hurries away
Them that are fain to stay.
Hurrah! For it carries home
Lovers and friends that roam.
Where are you, Time and Space?
The world is a little place.
Your reign is over and done,
You are one.
The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge is a three stanza poem that tells a short narrative about the journey, and arrival, of a woman, widely considered to be the witch in the poem, at the house of a man whose life is changed forever when he lets her in. The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABCBDEE FGHGIJJ KLMLNOO. The pattern stays the same throughout and only the rhyming words change. The Witch is a short narrative poem in which the initial speaker of the poem, the witch, is describing the trial she has endured and all of the hardships she faced as she wandered around the earth. She tells the reader she is not strong in body and her “clothes are wet.” The journey has been hard on her and the reader may ask, how did she do it? This is the first clue that there is more to this woman than one might initially think. She is begging outside of a home she has never visited before, asking to be let in. She spends the second stanza elaborating on her bad circumstances and emphasizing her maidenhood. She speaks of her cold hands and of herself as a “little maiden.” She seeks to put at rest the mind of the resident of the home.
The final stanza concludes the story and is told from the perspective of the homeowner. He has let her into his home and since then the “flame” on his hearth has gone out. He has lost something integral to his life and it was taken from him by this witch. It is clear by the last lines that it was due to his choice to let her in the home that his life was changed forever. It is not made clear what she has done or why exactly his life is so changed.