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I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
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Christmas bell is a significant part of the celebration. It is the very sound of the bell which beats the blues of the cold December whilst coifing the right backdrop for an immense cheer. The effervescent relation of Christmas bell and the Christmas celebration has been celebrated by poets and thinkers. The gong of the bell announces the onset of the Christmas which is typically the occasion of sharing and caring, the event of spreading the message of love. The eminent poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in his wonderful poem I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, quite ideally illustrates the |
romance of the Christmas bells. The poem is not only a famous Christmas carol but the verse with its yarn and fervor stands out as one of the well written anti war poem depicting the poet’s persona in the most colossal way.
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
'There is no peace on earth,' I said,
'For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.'
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
'God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.'
Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
The optimistic attitude of the poet, the very realization that after all God is not dead offers an unmatched diction to the poem whilst making it a sublime Christmas Carol of sheer verve.
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