do you remember an inn miranda tarantella
Who is Miranda in Tarantella?
It has been suggested in various web sites that I, Miranda Mackintosh, am the original Miranda to whom Hillaire Belloc refers in his poem ‘Tarantella’. This is not true. Hillaire Belloc was a life long friend of my father, Hugh Mackintosh, and our family.
What is the poem tarantella about?
A tarantella is a folk dance with an up-beat tempo, a frenetic dance that was said to imitate tarantism, the physical spasms brought on by the bite of a spider. The rhythm of the poem has a hypnotic effect on the reader. The poem begins with an insistent question which becomes a refrain.
Who wrote Tarantella poem?
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc, “Tarantella”
Who wrote Do you remember an Inn Miranda?
Hilaire Belloc
About Hilaire Belloc
Belloc was an extremely versatile writer, who is best known for his original light verse for children. He was a passionate debater, becoming President of the Oxford Union in the 1890s, an accomplished historian and essayist and an MP representing Salford for four years.
Is there anybody there poem?
“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; “Is there anybody there?” he said.