In This Weather, In This Windy Storm
In this weather, in this windy storm,
I would never have sent the children out;
They were carried outside -
I could say nothing about it!
In this weather, in this roaring storm,
I would never have let the children out.
I was afraid they had fallen ill,
but these thoughts are now idle.
In this weather, in this cruel storm,
I would never have let the children out;
I was worried they would die the next day -
but this is now no concern.
In this weather, in this cruel storm,
I would never have sent the children out;
They were carried outside -
I could say nothing about it!
In this weather, in this roaring, cruel storm,
they rest as they did in their mother's house:
they are frightened by no storm,
and are covered by the hand of God.
Friedrich Rückert
This Poem speaks to me because Friedrich Ruckert uses detail to emphasize the way the children felt after they went outside. It lets you know how the main person feels about sending the children out and what occurs to the children. As each stanza is complete it goes into how the storm changes, it starts off as windy, than roaring, than cruel, and last roaring and cruel. I believe that Ruckert is developing a morose feeling to how the actions that happen. This poem is not cheerful is is sad it has many emotions and you can sense them when you read it.
Poems like this help a reader understand what the poet could have been feeling when they wrote it. I believe Friedrich Ruckert was sad about something or maybe going through a hard time. He shows so much emotion in this poem because of the way he characterizes the storm and connects it to the children and the different things that happen because of them going out. If they would not have been sent out than maybe they would not have gone through the things that happened.
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I agree with your personal response but I think that the mood changes at the end of the poem because the children are no longer fearful but they are safe ,covered by the hand of God. The mother or what I assume is the mother or caretaker in this poem, is regretful of her actions. The mood in the begining is as you said before morose and sorrowful. She sounds condescending as she decribes her thoughts against the people who carried the children outside. It is a sad poem and in the begining it is not clear that the children are dead in the begining but after the third stanza it is clear.
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