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A famous English poet, journalist, and a humorist was born on May 23, 1799 named Thomas Hood. He was known for his work in Britain, United States, Germany, and Russia. His father named Thomas Hood was a partner in the bookselling and publishing firm of Vernor and Hood. His mother, Elizabeth Sands was the daughter of an engraver. Thomas Hood was one of the six children in the Hood family. His father later died 1811 and Hood became very ill that his family had to move to Dundee, Scotland. Something unusual about Thomas Hood is that he began to write when he was ill. Thomas Hood returned to London where he had an apprenticeship in the engraving trade and was hired by a former employee of his father in the Vernor and Hood bookselling and publishing …show more content…

Another line that Thomas Hood uses imagery is “I remember, I remember, where I used to swing, and thought the air must rush as fresh to swallows on the wing…” This line has imagery because it shows and imagines people of how they would play in the swings and feel the air rushing through their hair. Hood also uses imagery in line “The roses, red and white, the violets, and the lily-cups, those flowers made of light!” The imagery in this line is so strong that the reader could really imagine of how the flowers looks like. Imagery in this poem makes the reader remember about their childhood memories. Thomas Hood uses another literary device which is personification. In line “The little window where the sun came peeping in at morn;..” is use as personification because Thomas states that the sun was looking through the window. A sun cannot look at a window so it is used as a personification. In other words, the poet is trying to say that the sun rays were coming from the window. Furthermore, Thomas Hood uses repetition throughout the poem. He writes “I remember, I remember” in the beginning of each stanza to show the reader that he is writing about his …show more content…

The word “remember” tells the reader that is going to be about a memory or an event that had happened. In the first stanza of the poem which states “I remember, I remember, the house where I was born, the little window where the sun came peeping in at morn; he never came a wink too soon, nor brought too long a day, but now, I often wish the night had borne my breath away!” In other words, Thomas Hood tries to say that he remembers the house where he was born where the sun rays would hit the window every morning. He also says the God never came for him or gave him a long day and now he wishes that the night would carry him away. The second stanza states “I remember, I remember, the roses, red and white, the violets, and the lily-cups, those flowers made of light! The lilacs where the robin built, where my brother set the laburnum on his birthday,— the tree is living yet!” Hood states that he remembers the flowers of his childhood and the bird house where his brother planted his golden chain tree on his birthday where it is still standing. The third stanza Hood writes “I remember, I remember, where I was used to swing, and thought the air must rush as fresh to swallows on the wing; my spirit flew in feather then, that is so heavy now, and summer pools could hardly cool the fever on my brow!” On this stanza Thomas Hood says that he remembers the feeling

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