“Is My Team Ploughing” by A.E. Housman

“Is my team ploughing,
    That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
    When I was man alive?”

Ay, the horses trample,
    The harness jingles now;
No change though you lie under
    The land you used to plough.

“Is football playing
    Along the shore,
With lads to chase the leather,
    Now I stand no more?”

Ay, the ball is flying,
    The lads play heart and soul;
The goal stands up, the keeper
    Stands up to keep the goal.

“Is my girl happy,
    That I though hard to leave,
And has she tired of weeping
    As she lies down at eve?”

Ay, she lies down lightly,
    She lies not down to weep;
Your girl is well contented.
    Be still, my lad, and sleep.

“Is my friend hearty,
    Now I am think and pine,
And has he found to sleep in a
    A better bed than mine?”

Yes, lad, I lie easy,
    I lie as lads would chose;
I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart,
    Never ask me whose.


Analysis;

a dead man talks to his friend from the grave. and his friend answers that nothing changed
after your death, the horses are still plowing, the boys are playing footballs...





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Break of Day
by John Donne

Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Why should we rise, because 'tis light?
Did we lie down, because 'twas night?
Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
Should in despite of light keep us together.

Light hath no tongue, but is all eye;
If it could speak as well as spy,
This were the worst that it could say,
That being well, I fain* would stay,
And that I loved my heart and honor so,
That I would not from him, that had them, go.

Must business thee from hence remove?
O, that's the worst disease of love.
The poor, the foul, the false, love can
Admit, but not the busied man.
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.


discussion and alalysis:

The speaker in the poem is a woman. She wakes up in the morning with her lover. She is upset that he must rise and leave her to go about his usual busy day. She says they should not allow themselves to be controlled.
 so easily, sleeping when it is night and waking when it is light. Their love should be strong enough to keep them together despite the daylight.

what is the poet complaining about?  are the two persons married or unmarried?

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