I got about halfway through this thing and couldn't take it anymore.
I like it and I like the author. Though I think this poem was written more for herself, in sort of a "let's make sure I remember what great a time I had in England so that when I'm an old grandma I can look back and smile and read it to my grand-daughter."
Still well worth reading
2004-04-09
Added by: Pauline Burton
"White Cliffs" can seem too long if you read it as a single story-poem, from beginning to end. I think it's a collection of poems on a theme, chronologically ordered, and it's best to dip in and out and pick your own favourites. Old-fashioned? Maybe - but that's part of its charm - and the pain of losing someone you love to war is very real.
a memory
2004-12-07
Added by: Martha A. Mitchell
How wonderful to find The White Cliffs. In the spring of 1950 I memorized a carefully cut version of The White Cliffs for my freshman speech final at Emerson College in Boston, MA. When I found it, I read through the first two verses, and my eyes filled with tears.. So many memories flooded back.
I'm refering to the poem, and its impact on me at the age of 20, in a memoire manuscript about "coming out" at the age of 74, after 2 marriages and 5 children.
When she asks, "Why do we fall in love?..." I think even then I knew my body danced to a different tune, but it was a different time.
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I like it and I like the author. Though I think this poem was written more for herself, in sort of a "let's make sure I remember what great a time I had in England so that when I'm an old grandma I can look back and smile and read it to my grand-daughter."