for whom the bell tolls poem edgar allan poe

Today I’d like you to take any meaning or form of the word bell and write a poem of exactly 44 words (not counting your title), including the prompt word.Ī retired teacher, I am originally from London lived in Cologne, Germany for nearly eight years, and the Republic of Ireland for two years, where I gave birth to my daughter.

Sarah Teasdale wrote a lovely poem called ‘Bells’: įinally we have ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray: Īnd for those of us with an affinity for bluebells, here is a link to Anne Brontë’s delightful poem, ‘The Bluebell’: Then we have a poem that jingles and jangles with all sorts of bells: ‘The Bells’ by Edgar Allan Poe: The first one I have chosen is ‘The Cap and Bells’ by William Butler Yeats: It was interesting to select poems with bells in them. And if you enjoy cooking, you may have used a bell pepper.Īccording to Wikipedia, bell is a word common to the Low German dialects, possibly related to the former sense of ‘to bell’ (Old English: bellan, ‘to roar, to make a loud noise’).Īnd then we have bluebells, harebells, Canterbury bells and bellflowers. You might once have worn bell-bottoms, been accompanied to your hotel room by a bellboy, used a bell jar, or seen a flock of sheep following a bellwether. Colloquially to ‘give someone a bell’ means to call them on the telephone.

It is also commonly a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. In dictionaries, bell is defined as ‘a hollow metal object, typically in the shape of a deep inverted cup widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical note when struck, especially by means of a clapper inside’ and ‘a bell-shaped object or part of something’.īell can be a verb, as in to ‘provide with a bell or bells’ with an interesting example: “the young men were belling and hobbling the horses before releasing them”, and to ‘make a ringing sound likened to that of a bell’.

For whom the bell tolls poem edgar allan poe