Episode 74 - Poetry Explication #4: Bells for John Whiteside‘s Daughter by John Crowe Ransom

The death of a child is brutally hard on us all.  Poet John Crowe Ransom writes of just such a hardship in beautiful rhyming lines in Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter.  He captures, brilliantly, the youthful excitement, wonder, and imagination of a young girl and her death before her time.  He uses beautiful, captivating imagery to which we can all relate.  This week, we explore his poem in this, our 4th explication.