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.
