Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter By Ransom

Ransom describes “John Whiteside’s” daughter as an energetic child. She is portrayed as a young child with a vivid imagination. Her image expresses the theme of “childlike imagination” in lines three and four by saying, “It is no wonder her brown study/ Astonishes us all.” By using this wording, Ransom invites the reader to look at the world through the eyes of a young girl. Ransom continues to explain the adventure of the daughter in lines ten and eleven by giving the image of geese floating and drifting on a still pond. He alludes to the geese as being “like a snow cloud”. “Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter” uses imagery in the title of the poem as well as in lines seventeen and eighteen. “But now go the bells, and we are ready,/