Houses (F. S. Flint) by Frank Stuart Flint
Evening settles over a quiet street, where a bird trills among poplars behind a house with a dark green door. Chimneys rise into the still sky, while steamers hoot on the Thames and passing cars, footsteps, and voices sound subdued in the dusk. The houses stand solid, square, shuttered by venetian blinds, seeming immovable against the world.
By Frank Stuart Flint · First published 1920 · Genre: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Modernist Literature · 142 words
First lines
Evening and quiet: / a bird trills in the poplar trees / behind the house with the dark green door / across the road.
Into the sky, / the red earthenware and the galvanised iron chimneys / thrust their cowls.
The hoot of the steamers on the Thames is plain.
No wind; / the trees merge, green with green; / a car whirs by; / footsteps and voices take their pitch / in the key of dusk, / far-off and near, subdued.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Frank Stuart Flint
- Date: 1920 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Modernist Literature
- Length: 142 words
- Structure: 1 section, 6 paragraphs
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Genres
- Poetry — The book is a collection of verses by D.H. Lawrence, hence classified under the poetry genre
- Literary Fiction — D.H. Lawrence is an influential literary writer known for his richly symbolic and poetic prose
- Modernist Literature — Lawrence's work falls under the Modernist movement, characterized by shifts in narrative voice and a stream-of-consciousness style
Tags
architecture · domesticity · human experience · nature · symbolism · modernism · interior · landscape · identity · social commentary · emotional resonance · cultural critique