The Dumka By B. H. Fairchild

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Throughout each varying stage of life comes opportunity for experiences, yet also opportunity for reflection. Old age is coupled with a relatively quieter, simpler way of life than that of younger years and it is in that time that one is able to look back upon the memories of the past. In the poem “The Dumka,” by B.H. Fairchild, the old couple spends countless evenings sitting side by side as memories of their past flood over them.
Their easy-going, quiet lifestyle grants them infinite opportunities to reflect upon prominent times of their younger years. “Alone in the house” (lines 29 and 30),
“the music of their lives” (line 39) plays out and they are taken back to the thirties and the years of war. In contrast to their old age, the 1930’s