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Comment 20 of 20, added on April 25th, 2007 at 9:49 AM.
MY MOM(NELLIE RAY)RECITED THIS POEM AS A YOUNG GIRL IN
SCHOOL IN NEEDVILLE,TX. SHE WON THE CONTEST. I HEARD HER RECITE THIS POEM
IN HER LATE 70'S AND SHE REMEMBERED IT ALL. SHE PASSED AWAY IN MAY"05, AND
THE HOME SHE LIVED IN, NOW HAS NOBODY IN IT. I WISH I HAD RECITED THIS POEM
AT HER FUNERAL BECAUSE SHE LOVED IT!!!!
CATHERINE DAVIS from United States
Comment 19 of 20, added on January 5th, 2007 at 7:37 PM.
I used to recite in plays and contests in school and this is one of my
prize poems. I've always loved it and include this in poems I give as
gifts. It's so sad to think of this house that did it's job and now is
alone and so true to life, Isn't it?
alice dailey from United States
Comment 18 of 20, added on April 13th, 2006 at 10:31 PM.
I heard this poem for the very first time last night. It was recited by a
woman who is 87 years old. My grandparents lived in Suffern, and as a
child we would walk the country roads after dinner in the summer,
when the light was long and lingered. We would cross a wooden bridge that
spanned that Erie track and there was, indeed, an old abandoned farm house
that we kids would call 'haunted'....I wonder if it was the same
house.......
Vivian Clayton from United States
Comment 17 of 20, added on April 12th, 2006 at 10:39 PM.
I remember having to recite this poem in elementary school and now 40 years
later my interpretation of the poem is much different from elementary
school. I know someone who had a house and never rented it out or allowed
anyone to live in it. I passed by this house everyday for 15 years and
would always think about the poem "The House with Nobody in It". I felt
exactly the way Kilmer may have felt. I used the analogy that like this
house, life is to be lived and not wasted; don't have a "body and mind" and
leave it idle; utilize your god given talents or they will become like the
house on Suffern.(Tragic)
Rita from United States
Comment 16 of 20, added on March 15th, 2006 at 12:20 PM.
I am doing a reserch project and I can't find any literary criticism and I
don't really know what the poem means so if any body has any idea please
explain and post thanks
Jordan from United States
Comment 15 of 20, added on January 24th, 2006 at 7:17 PM.
I too have loved this poem ever since I heard it in grammar school I always
felt sad for the house.The house is longing for a family to live in it
again. It remembers the days when there was love and laughter echoing from
it's walls
joyce from United States
Comment 14 of 20, added on November 10th, 2005 at 9:59 AM.
I've loved this poem since elementary school, when I was required to
memorize it for english class. I lived in southwestern Connecticut and
went through Suffern, NY years later looking for the house!! The memory of
the words gripped me as much as my other favorite, "The Barefoot Boy" by
John Greenleaf Whittier. To me it means we should always look back, and of
course, try to make things better.
Lois Mitchell from United States
Comment 13 of 20, added on September 28th, 2005 at 2:57 PM.
My grandma is now 85 and some dementia has set in, but of all the things
that she remembers is this poem. She can recite it when everything else is
upside down. This is what I will read at her funeral as she has told it to
me so many times.
Margeaux from United States
Comment 12 of 20, added on September 20th, 2005 at 12:54 AM.
My Mum read poetry to us almost every night, from what I think is the same
red book. I always loved this one, and still had most of it memorized until
just recently. (I'm getting old, ok?) My imagination took me to that house
time and time again, and the house looked sad, lonely. It imparts the idea
that places are still alive when it is clear that something good and decent
took place.
I still have the same love for some special places and things that made a
difference in my life. I feel lucky to have had a mum who knew a lot about
literature, and by reading to us, we all learned to read well before
kindergarten. I think it's early brain-training.
K Barber from United States
Comment 11 of 20, added on June 18th, 2005 at 9:36 AM.
As kids in Brooklyn, NY, roller-skating on the slate sidewalks, or sitting
on the stoops, we recited snatches of the poem. The haunting refrain of
the sad house with nobody in it left us petrified of ghosts. But, what
always mystified me--and why I liked this poem above many others--was
Kilmer's lonely and metaphysical walk along the Erie railroad tracks. Why
did he want to walk to Suffern, NY from his home in New Jersey? That
question has never been answered to my satisfaction. It is a rhetorical
question, so please don't delete this comment. Joyce Kilmer should be
recognized as, and given the honorable title of, America's poet laureate.
David Arturi from United States
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MY MOM(NELLIE RAY)RECITED THIS POEM AS A YOUNG GIRL IN
SCHOOL IN NEEDVILLE,TX. SHE WON THE CONTEST. I HEARD HER RECITE THIS POEM
IN HER LATE 70'S AND SHE REMEMBERED IT ALL. SHE PASSED AWAY IN MAY"05, AND
THE HOME SHE LIVED IN, NOW HAS NOBODY IN IT. I WISH I HAD RECITED THIS POEM
AT HER FUNERAL BECAUSE SHE LOVED IT!!!!
CATHERINE DAVIS from United States