House on a Cliff (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis MacNeice
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Home, Ireland or Irish people, Time, Houses, mansions, or manors, Aging
The Poem
“House on a Cliff” is a sixteen-line poem in flexible iambic pentameter rhymed abcb and divided into three stanzas of four lines each. The title sets the scene and, to a certain extent, the mood as it creates an image of a life lived in a precarious place exposed to the elements. The poem is written in the third person, and the narrator is seemingly omniscient, moving quickly and repeatedly from descriptions of the interior of a house and its inhabitant to descriptions of the night outside and back again.
“House on a Cliff” begins indoors, where...
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