Ninetieth Birthday (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: R. S. Thomas
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Grandparents or grandchildren, Rites or ceremonies, Old age or elderly people, Parties, Aging, Wales or Welsh people
The Poem
R. S. Thomas’s “Ninetieth Birthday” is a poem of two stanzas of unequal length written in free verse. The second stanza is further divided for emphasis, the seventh line beginning immediately below the end of the sixth line rather than at the left margin as do the other lines. The poem is written in the second person; though the speaker seems to be addressing another person, it is possible to read the poem as the speaker’s own memories or thoughts about an event. The poem describes a person going to visit an old woman, perhaps a mother or grandmother, on the...
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