A Short Analysis of A. E. Housman’s ‘Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying’

This is a beautiful poem and is (along with “On Wenlock Edge”) my favourite Housman poem.

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‘Tell me not here, it needs not saying’ is one of the most famous poems from A. E. Housman’s second volume, Last Poems (1922). In this poem, which comes near the end of the collection, Housman reflects on his relationship with nature, before concluding that, although nature does not care or even know about him, he feels a close bond with it.

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