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Comment 4 of 4, added on July 25th, 2006 at 3:39 PM.
After seeing the film Walkabout this became my favourite poem signifying to me everything about lost childhood.
Chas from United Kingdom
Comment 3 of 4, added on November 3rd, 2005 at 8:59 PM.
i thought this poem was very interesting and unique ! i had to read this for school and i thought it relaxing but i was in just the right mood to read it and I'm happy that i did !
Kahlee from United States
Comment 2 of 4, added on June 26th, 2005 at 4:12 PM.
This poem was used at the end of the film "Walkabout".
I thought it was an ideal choice.
John from United Kingdom
Comment 1 of 4, added on April 10th, 2005 at 9:13 AM.
Many years ago, I had an uncle and aunt who farmed near to Fockbury in Worcestershire. On the estate was an old country house, bigger than a cottage, called "Housmans" and it was there that A.E. Housman lived as a child and young man. Aa I grew up I read the now unfashionable verses of A Shropshire Lad and learned that A.E.H. had never ever lived in that county, but from where he lived, the view of those Shropshire Hills was visible. He had an obsession with untimely death and suicide, of young men going off to war and dying for their country. He rose, belatedly through academia to great heights and became Professor of Classics at Cambridge, an austere and remote man. But he espoused a love for Shropshire and the jealous pride of a native although he had no claim to it.
Blue Remembered Hills is a lament for lost youth and enormormously evocative, quoted very often.
Philip Dickinson from United Kingdom
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After seeing the film Walkabout this became my favourite poem signifying to me everything about lost childhood.
Chas from United Kingdom