To His Love
Ivor Gurney
He's gone, and all our plans
Are useless indeed.
We'll walk no more on Cotswold
Where the sheep feed
Quietly and take no heed.
His body that was so quick
Is not as you
Knew it, on Severn river
Under the blue
Driving our small boat through.
You would not know him now ...
But still he died
Nobly, so cover him over
With violets of pride
Purple from Severn side.
Cover him, cover him soon!
And with thick-set
Masses of memoried flowers—
Hide that red wet
Thing I must somehow forget.
Gurney, Ivor. "To His Love." Poetry Foundation. Web.
In this elegy, the three stages can be seen. The first stage, grief, is shown clearly in the first sentence when the author says, "He's gone, and all our plans are useless indeed." The author isgrieving the loss of his love as well as the loss of their future life together. The second stage, admiration, is shown in the second stanza where he talks about how the deceased was known before he died, "on Severn river under the blue driving our small boat through." The author is remembering the good things about him and admiring his life, as well as their life together. The final stage, consolation, can best be seen in the second to last stanza where it says, "But still he died nobly, so cover him over with violets of pride purple from Severn side" Although the author is upset and missing his lover, he realizes that no matter how much he thinks about him and tries to remember him, he is still gone and he just has to deal with that.
Over all the poem has a good message about dealing with death. When someone dies, their life is over, but that doesn't mean that everyone else's lives have to stop too. It's going to be hard, but you just have to accept the fact that their gone and try to move on with your life.
He's gone, and all our plans
Are useless indeed.
We'll walk no more on Cotswold
Where the sheep feed
Quietly and take no heed.
His body that was so quick
Is not as you
Knew it, on Severn river
Under the blue
Driving our small boat through.
You would not know him now ...
But still he died
Nobly, so cover him over
With violets of pride
Purple from Severn side.
Cover him, cover him soon!
And with thick-set
Masses of memoried flowers—
Hide that red wet
Thing I must somehow forget.
Gurney, Ivor. "To His Love." Poetry Foundation. Web.
Gurney, Ivor. "To His Love." Poetry Foundation. Web.
In this elegy, the three stages can be seen. The first stage, grief, is shown clearly in the first sentence when the author says, "He's gone, and all our plans are useless indeed." The author isgrieving the loss of his love as well as the loss of their future life together. The second stage, admiration, is shown in the second stanza where he talks about how the deceased was known before he died, "on Severn river under the blue driving our small boat through." The author is remembering the good things about him and admiring his life, as well as their life together. The final stage, consolation, can best be seen in the second to last stanza where it says, "But still he died nobly, so cover him over with violets of pride purple from Severn side" Although the author is upset and missing his lover, he realizes that no matter how much he thinks about him and tries to remember him, he is still gone and he just has to deal with that.
Over all the poem has a good message about dealing with death. When someone dies, their life is over, but that doesn't mean that everyone else's lives have to stop too. It's going to be hard, but you just have to accept the fact that their gone and try to move on with your life.
Over all the poem has a good message about dealing with death. When someone dies, their life is over, but that doesn't mean that everyone else's lives have to stop too. It's going to be hard, but you just have to accept the fact that their gone and try to move on with your life.
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