Poem Analysis

Analysis

Paraphrase:

First stanza: The speaker is crying while looking at the fields remembering the past.

Second stanza: The speaker is watching at the fields from the dawn to the sunset, still thinking in the past.

Third stanza: Reveals the speaker is watching from a house, hearing the birds in the morning.

Fourth stanza: Thinks in the one he olved, who have probably died.

Title:

 The title seems totalk about his tears which by reading the poem we will know that are because of having lost a loved one. By saying the tears are idle we can know that is a pain that will not leave, because the tears will stay there as she is dead.

By Nikos Mac Millan and Jeremy Ryan