The Landscape near an Aerodrome (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Spender
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, 1930’s, Airplanes or jets, Airports, Airlines
The Poem
Stephen Spender’s “The Landscape near an Aerodrome” is a poem of thirty lines arranged into six stanzas of five lines each. The poem is a description of the flight of an airplane and its landing at an urban airport. Such a flight would still have been a somewhat unusual event in the 1930’s, and the speaker meditates upon the meaning and significance of the airplane, the landscape over which it flies, and the airport (“aerodrome” means airfield or airport) at which it arrives. The title suggests that the focus of the poem is the landscape, but in the first...
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