An Air That Kills: Housman's Blue Remembered Hills

A 3-minute lecture by Michael Blackburn on poem 40 of Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
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[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

I discovered this poem just a few years after I lost my dear wife. Every line meant so much to me and I will never forget it.

[@only1timmo]

So sorry for your lose. Do you please mind explaining why the poem reminded you so much of your fear late wife? Regards, Tim

[@mikefullermikefuller4711]

I have always loved this poem!

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

I have started trying to memorise some favourite lines and these beautiful poems are so achievable, I guess it's the rhyme. If anyone else is coming very late to poetry, our cultural legacy, it's well worth doing and not so impossible as one might assume. No one can take them from you, the words abide.

[@sallybilzon3507]

Of course, context helps to aid the meaning you take from it. For my husband it’s a childhood lost and also a country lost.

[@MrBoybergs]

Perfect

[@melcomepay6668]

I wish he had written air that THRILLS , please remember Houseman's view. that poetry should be understood with, or by our EMOTIONS , not our intellects......( Oh to be child again)....Mp

[@MsBettyRubble]

No, this is a poem of regret. 'Kills' is apt. 'Thrills' is not melancholy but hopeful or enthusiastic.