Home-Thoughts, from Abroad Themes

England, Albion, Old Blighty—call it what you want, but the speaker of "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" calls it home. It's a place he's eager to get back to, but he can't. Instead, he's stuck shuffl...

This may come as a shock—are you sitting down? Good. "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" is a pretty popular poem in England. It's not hard to see why, after all. In twenty lines, it does as much as any...

An orchard isn't exactly natural in the way that, say, a forest is. The word "orchard" suggests that humans are stopping by on a regular basis, pruning tree limbs and picking fruit. Still, "Home-Th...