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    The poem describes a spring scene at Mrs. Appleby's house. The trees have frost, flowers are blooming in the windows, speckled fish are swimming in a china dish, and a tiny yellow bird is singing. The document then provides biographical information about the author Walter de la Mare. It discusses how he had a privileged childhood and remained interested in writing poetry for children throughout his career. It also analyzes his poetic style and reputation, noting he was sometimes seen as introverted but was technically skilled at creating atmosphere and subtle narratives.

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    Children's Literature

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    The poem describes a spring scene at Mrs. Appleby's house. The trees have frost, flowers are blooming in the windows, speckled fish are swimming in a china dish, and a tiny yellow bird is singing. The document then provides biographical information about the author Walter de la Mare. It discusses how he had a privileged childhood and remained interested in writing poetry for children throughout his career. It also analyzes his poetic style and reputation, noting he was sometimes seen as introverted but was technically skilled at creating atmosphere and subtle narratives.

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    The poem describes a spring scene at Mrs. Appleby's house. The trees have frost, flowers are blooming in the windows, speckled fish are swimming in a china dish, and a tiny yellow bird is singing. The document then provides biographical information about the author Walter de la Mare. It discusses how he had a privileged childhood and remained interested in writing poetry for children throughout his career. It also analyzes his poetic style and reputation, noting he was sometimes seen as introverted but was technically skilled at creating atmosphere and subtle narratives.

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    Children's Literature

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    The poem describes a spring scene at Mrs. Appleby's house. The trees have frost, flowers are blooming in the windows, speckled fish are swimming in a china dish, and a tiny yellow bird is singing. The document then provides biographical information about the author Walter de la Mare. It discusses how he had a privileged childhood and remained interested in writing poetry for children throughout his career. It also analyzes his poetic style and reputation, noting he was sometimes seen as introverted but was technically skilled at creating atmosphere and subtle narratives.

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    CHILDREN AND

    ADOLESCENT’S
    LITERATURE
    Dissecting poems
    ELIZAB
    ETH
    UPHAM
    MCWEB
    B
    When frost is shining on the trees
    It’s spring at Mrs. Appleby’s
    You smell it in the air before

    AT MRS. You step inside the kitchen door

    APPLEBY’ Rows of scarlet flowers bloom


    From every window in the room.

    S And funny little speckled fish


    Are swimming in a china dish.
    ELIZABETH UPHAM MCWEBB

    A tiny bird with yellow wings


    Just sit and sings and sings and SINGS!
    Outside when frost is on the trees,
    It’s spring at Mrs. Appleby’s
    Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was the prolific author of many volumes of poetry, short stories and
    novels, including one of the most enduringly popular poems in the English language, ‘The
    Listeners’. Born in Charlton, Kent, he was educated at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School in London.
    At sixteen he started work in the statistics department of Anglo-American Oil. He married in 1899
    and had four children and for many years he struggled to balance the life of the writer with the
    financial demands of family until, in 1908, he received a Civil List pension which enabled him to

    WALT
    concentrate on writing. His first book, a collection of poems called Songs of Childhood appeared in
    1902: the title gives us a clue to de la Mare’s key poetic concerns and establishes him in a tradition
    which stretches back to Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience and the ideals of the Romantics.
    Like them he had a privileged childhood, a time of unique vision uncontaminated by adult

    ER DE
    perceptions, and he remained throughout his career a keen and successful writer of poems for
    children. In a lecture on Rupert Brooke, de la Mare described children as “contemplatives, solitaries,
    fakirs who sink again and again out of the noise and fever of existence and into a waking vision.” In

    LA
    his own writing de la Mare is trying to re-awaken this vision which accounts for the yearning tone
    of much of his poetry. This preference for inward exploration has led, in some ways unfairly, to him
    being dismissed as an introverted poet of escape, a romantic ducking the complexities of modern
    life. Certainly his sometimes archaic diction, use of formal verse structures and central concerns are

    MARE
    largely at odds with the modernist movement which came to dominate poetic discourse from the
    1920s onwards. His critical reputation also suffered from his association with the Georgian
    movement which was later discredited by the modernists as an inadequate response to the changed
    circumstances of the world following the First World War. However, such criticism overlooks de la
    Mare’s great attributes: his technical skill, uncanny ability to create atmosphere and the subtle
    ambiguities of his elliptical narratives. De la Mare remained popular in his lifetime and writers as
    respected as W H Auden, Graham Greene and Angela Carter all spoke highly of him: perhaps at the
    50th Anniversary of his death a critical re-appraisal is merited.
    It’s a very odd thing-
    As odd as can be-
    That whatever Miss Tea. eats
    Turns into Miss T.;
    Porridge and apples,

    MISS T. Mince, muffins and mutton,


    Jam, junket, jumbles-
    WALTER DE LA MARE Not a rap, not a button
    It matters; the moment
    They’re out of her plate,
    Though shared by Miss Butcher
    And sour Mr. Bate;
    Tiny and cheerful,
    And neat as can be,
    Whatever Miss T. eats
    Turns into Miss T.

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