The House on the Hill

E520680

"The House on the Hill" is a well-known poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that reflects on loss, memory, and the irrevocable passage of time.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
The House on the Hill canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf poem
author Edwin Arlington Robinson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
explores emotional impact of time on human experience
haunting persistence of memory
sense of irrevocable change
form villanelle
genre lyric poetry
hasMood reflective
somber
hasNotableLine “There is nothing more to say”
“They are all gone away, the House is shut and still”
includedIn collections of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems
influenced later critical appreciation of Robinson’s technical skill
language English
literaryDevice alliteration
enjambment
imagery
repetition
symbolism
literaryMovement American poetry
meter iambic pentameter
narrativePerspective first-person speaker
recognizedFor evocative depiction of abandonment
use of the villanelle form to convey nostalgia and loss
refrain “There is nothing more to say”
“They are all gone away”
setting an abandoned house on a hill
structure 19-line villanelle with repeating refrains
subjectMatter remembrance of a deserted home and its former inhabitants
taughtIn courses on American poetry
courses on fixed poetic forms
theme irreversibility of the past
loss
memory
passage of time
tone elegiac
melancholic

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.