April 7 Hardy

Disasters at sea have inspired many a poem, few more chilling than Thomas Hardy’s, which embodies his own peculiar sense of fate in recording the disaster of the fourteenth of April nineteen hundred and twelve when the Titanic, on her maiden voyage to America, struck an iceberg. THE  CONVERGENCE  OF  THE  TWAIN By Thomas Hardy […]

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April 2 Watson

In contrast to the lusty young man of Spenser’s personification, in William Watson’s lines April appears as a young girl, referring to the frequent periods of sunshine and showers characteristic of this month. APRIL    William Watson April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears!

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