Summary Of Adlestrop By Edward Thomas

In Edward Thomas's poem “Adlestrop,” he uses a train ride to describe a life-altering encounter. When the train stopped unexpectedly, it opened his mind to a new world. Edward Thomas, a British poet, and essayist enlisted in the British army for World War One. He uses his war experience to inspire him to write this poem. The first stanza focuses on being straightforward and using concise syntax, while the second stanza sets a placid tone. The third and fourth stanza is where readers see Thomas’ connection between society and nature by his description of a placid and abstract environment around the train stop. Throughout this poem, Thomas disassembles his story into individual unique components to speculate its allure. He does this by being straightforward and having concise syntax, then moving on to fully establish a placid tone, and how he expected more at the train stop, and last he uses repetition to establish

He does this by abruptly stating “Yes I Remember Adlestrop” (Thomas 1). With Thomas starting out the poem this way it makes the readers believe that he is either talking to someone or telling a story to someone. He then goes on to implement realism into the poem when he confirms that this took place in the past rather than a made up story. This becomes true when he says, “The name, because one afternoon,” (Thomas 2) this infers that he is talking as if this has already happened, thus bringing to light the realism within the poem. Thomas then moves to establish a deep connection between him and his readers in the next few lines. The way he says, “Unwontedly. It was late in June” (Thomas 4), allows readers to connect to his poem even more by naming a month of the year. Naming non-physical personages, such as months, are things readers can easily connect to, immersing them more into his poem. Thomas then goes on to establish a placid tone within the second stanza to add another unique way to look at his