John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1888. He was the oldest of two sisters and a brother. In 1909 he received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He continued his studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England. Before returning home from 1917 to 1919 he served in the First World War. He was assigned to the U.S. Field Artillery Training Base in Saumur, France. Following his discharge from the Army, he returned to Tennessee and became a member of the English department at Vanderbilt. He founded the “Fugitive Group” where he and other members argued against the dominance of modern industrialism, science, and urbanism. The group stood for the virtues of agrarian life, tradition and literature. Ransom’s two essays Who Owns America? in 1936 and I’ll Take My Stand in 1930 outlined the groups ideas and motives. In 1937 he left Vanderbilt and moved to Ohio where he became a professor of poetry at Kenyon College. At Kenyon he founded a literary magazine called the Kenyon Review. He became a leading voice of the “new criticism” which advocated the close study of literary texts that had been isolated from social, historical, and biographical considerations. Du
The third stanza describes the state of the pond and the geese after the young girl has passed away. The geese again were “lazy” and still “like a snow cloud” blanketing the pond. Since they were no longer disturbed by the girl the geese had resumed their normal placid lives back at the pond. They went about there business in a quiet “sleepy” manner. The narrator noticed the change in the mood at the pond. The once active pond, when the girl spent her days there chasing the geese and running around, fell quiet. There was no more noise and no more little girl laughing and playing. The last line in the stanza clarifies how the narrator felt about the little girl. We were forced to assume in the first stanza, however, now we know that she was probably loud and bothersome to her neighbor. The narrator says was glad that there was finally peace and quiet outside and at the pond when he says, “Who cried in goose, Alas”. This line is clever since both the duck and the narrator are relieved that finally the noise has ceased. Of old scraps of laces, snipped into curious shreds— Her wars were bruited in our high window. But now go the bells, and we are ready, Dripping their snow on the green grass,
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Approximate Word count = 2521
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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