Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SPENSERIAN STANZAS A-downe the river banke the boates ' chugge, Y-passing ever uppe and downe they go, The loathlie garbage barge and swinking tugge, Some moving swiftlie, others e'en more slow, And al the while the river stronge doth flow. Oftimes the fogge outside the wall is rent By steamer looming bigge, anon a low And lonlie cry up-from its funnelles sent Shrieks loudlie through the fogge its wilde and sad lament. Then cometh eek a straunge and cleadlie sound As dying rattle from a dragon's maw That maddened sinks from many a bloudie wound, Y-covered with his blacke and stinking gore. The faireste youths that sleepe their bookes o'er Rise uppe y-white of face and deadlie pale. What might this mean, this clamour which before E'en do the very lords and sages quaile, That rattleth al about like deadlie storm of haile? And when bright Phoebus settleth in the west, And murkie blacknesse cloudeth every streete, Forth from the walls each gorged and haggarcl guest Doth go, with mental nourishmente replete, And each into the dimnesse doth retreate, And fadeth full right willingly away, But still the river murmureth at the feete Of those blacke walls and danke, as if to say, E'en let the prisoners free. Tomorrow comes another day. WWC realize that the spelling of this word is Chaucerian. NFO: the benefit of Miss Carey and the very young, the deadlie sound is the riveting which went on across the way in 1930. l58l

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ENGLISH COMPOSITION A Critical A pprecialion of The Lady In The Lake As I have not lately read The Lady In The Lake, I shall or will find it terribly difficult to write a critical appreciation of this poem. But, on the other hand, nevertheless, a critical appreciation is awfully difficult to write anyway and so maybe mine will not be so much worse than somebody else. The Lady In The Lake is a good poem. It is a good poem because Scott, who wrote it, is a good writer and Scott is a good writer because he is in the Oxford Book of English Verse which is a good book. Having given my opinion of Scott and his poetry I shall or will go on to specifically discussing The Lady In The Lake. The background of The Lady In The Lake is very good. It is an awfully good background. If I were to see that background I should or would know it among a thousand. There is a lot of good descriptions about the background. An example of this is: The stag at eve had drunk his fill Wliere danced the moon on Monan's fill. and: Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. The plot is good. It is a frightfully good plot. It is almost as good as a good movie. That is to say, I, myself, personally was thrilled by it. It is terribly melodramatic. There are some awfully dramatic scenes in it. Drama is when if you don't just walk around the stage saying things, but if one does something much more subtle, such as saying: Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. It is all about a girl named Ellen and a man named Fitzjames and a man named Malcolm Graeme and a man named Roderick Dhu and some other men. These men are all madly in love with Ellen. I can only give this brief summary of the plot because I am getting sleepy. The metre is very good. It is very suitable. It is an excellent metre. It is fast because in a poem like The Lady In The Lake you want to go fast because one has only a short time to read it in and would not stay up all night to read U91