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Hallelujah

            
             Housman seems to be a very morbid man. As one reads this poem, an interesting image pops into the brain. Lieutenant-Colonel Mary Jane was a woman who was standing on the station platform at a train station. For some reason or another, Mary Jane fell from the platform and onto the tracks. She seems to have fallen right before a train pulled through the station. At this happening, all Mary Jane could utter was the word "Hallelujah!". After she had said this word, the train pulled through and ran her over; she was chopped up into little pieces. An onlooker responds to the situation by telling Mary Jane that the train has passed, it is gone. Everyone else chants "Hallelujah!" as they gather up the little fragments that remain of poor Lieutenant-Colonel Mary Jane.
             As stated above, reading this poem puts a gruesome, yet amusing image to mind. It is very sad for poor Mary Jane to fall onto the tracks in the first place, but to get ran over and smashed into little pieces by a huge train is very disheartening. However, the reaction of the onlookers is just plain wrong. They shout "Hallelujah!" as they pick up the pieces of Mary Jane. One would think that the scene would be utterly disgusting, but they just go about, picking up the pieces of the poor woman who lost her life on that fateful day.
             No one knows why Housman composed such a gruesome poem, but it shows that he has a sick sense of humor. As the poem is read, the reader thinks of how unfortunate it was for this young woman to fall onto the tracks from the station platform, and one would find it odd that she shouts out "Hallelujah!" as she falls. However, the mood completely changes when the onlookers chant "Hallelujah!" as they pick up her pieces after the train has hit her. This poem is a very odd one indeed.
            


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