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Our Casuarina Tree is an autobiographical poem . While living abroad, she is pining for the scenes of her native land and reliving the memories of childhood. In the first part of the poem the poet depicts the Casuarina Tree trailed by a creeper vine like a huge python, winding round and round the rough trunk, sunken deep with scars .
The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas written among a series of poems composed in 1802 about childhood. The first part of the poem was completed on 27 March 1802 and a copy was provided to Wordsworth's friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who responded with his own poem, "Dejection: An Ode", in April
Introductory section of the Childhood Memories second chapter, in its manuscript form. The second section opens with another nostalgic soliloquy, which famously begins with the words: "I wouldn't know what other people are like, but for myself, when I start thinking about my birthplace, Humulești, about the post holding the flue of the stove, round which mother used to tie a piece of string ...
Thomas had recorded work for the BBC since 1937, when he read poetry on air and talked about being a poet. [1] His radio work provided a minor source of income; in the early 1940s he began writing radio scripts and in late 1942 he wrote a 15-minute talk that was broadcast by the Welsh BBC in February 1943 titled Reminiscences of Childhood. [2]
The work has been described as a "saccharine poem", [15] but, on the other hand, it has been, and remains, of great public popularity, often evoking in people personal nostalgic memories of when the poem was frequently read to them in early childhood. [14] [note 4]
Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1800 The Pet-lamb 1800 A Pastoral "The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1800 I 1800 "It was an April morning, fresh and clear" Poems on the Naming of Places 1800 II 1800 To Joanna "Amid the smoke of cities did you pass"
Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]
In the 2002 episode "Rogue Planet" of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise, a member of a shape-shifting, telepathic alien species takes the form of a young woman to communicate with Captain Jonathan Archer, based on Archer's own childhood memories of hearing the poem. [6]