Round-Pond (Richard Aldington)
Round-Pond presents a bright, wind-driven scene of water broken into small waves and lit by lemon-yellow afternoon sunlight. Sunlight scattered across the pond resembles gold crocus-petals in an irregular flight, while the water looks cold and the wind feels sharp. Around it, chestnut buds glimmer and begin to open as starlings chatter in the branches and blackbirds grow fat in the grass. The speaker finds the scene exhilarating, declaring it brave even as the cold wind seems to seek a new mistress.
By Richard Aldington · First published 1920 · Genre: Fiction, Biography, Historical Fiction · 136 words
First lines
Water ruffled and speckled by galloping wind Which puffs and spurts it into tiny pashing breakers Dashed with lemon-yellow afternoon sunlight.
The shining of the sun upon the water Is like a scattering of gold crocus-petals In a long wavering irregular flight.
The water is cold to the eye As the wind to the cheek.
In the budding chestnuts Whose sticky buds glimmer and are half-burst open The starlings make their clitter-clatter; And the blackbirds in the grass Are getting as fat as the pigeons.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Richard Aldington
- Date: 1920 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Fiction, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Length: 136 words
- Structure: 1 section, 5 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Fiction — The book is a narrative that is invented by the author D.H. Lawrence.
- Biography — The title highlights Richard Aldington which suggests it may contain instances from his life, making it partly biographical.
- Historical Fiction — Richard Aldington was a known historical figure, suggesting possible elements of historical fiction.
Tags
nature · poetry · impressionism · landscape · existentialism · modernism · symbolism · human experience · self-reflection · emotional depth · artistic expression · philosophy