Question:
What is the name of this poem?
I read this in either an English or American Literature class. I probably don't remember enough about this poem to get an answer but hope someone knows...also, who is the author??? It is about a guy who is nostalgic about the past. He hates the present and wishes he lived in the past when everything was better. The funny thing is that what he fanticizes about in actuality isn't as great as he thinks it is. There is one part where he's thinking about knighthood and how wonderful it was but any thinking person would know that with the heavy armour and not being able to move or see well it makes his fantasy laughable.
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Is it this?
Miniver Cheevy
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors.
Minever mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
Minever loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.
Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the medi㦶al grace
Of iron clothing.
Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.
Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
by E.A. Robinson