"Jenny Kissed Me" by Leigh Hunt, a discussion of the poem and the poet
Jenny kissed me when we met, sat
jumping from the chair it in;
time, you thief, who love to get
set
candy in the list that in:
say I'm tired, say I'm sorry
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kissed me.
Leigh Hunt was an English 19th-century essayist, critic, poet and publisher. Hunting was not a famous poet, although his "Jenny Kissed Me" has enjoyed and often cited for nearly two centuries. However, Hunt lived during a time of English Romanticism and was influential in the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John Keats. He was also to coincide with Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Charles Dickens. Such a large company has Leigh Hunt distinguished status.
About "Jenny Kissed Me"
1835 Leigh Hunt and his large family moved to London at Chelsea and was neighboring poet and author, Thomas Carlyle, in his proposal. The two became close friends and Hunt was home to his friends always open, of which there were many.
Two stories exist. One story is that Leigh Hunt, the Carlyle visited to deliver the news that he was about to publish one of Thomas Carlyle poems. When the news about Carlyle's wife Jane was delivered, she jumped up and kissed him.
The other story that hunting during a winter was sick with influenza and absent so long that when he finally recovered and went to visit the Carlyle, Jane jumped up and kissed him when he at the door appeared . Two days later a hunting servant held a note, addressed: "From Mr. Hunt to Mrs. Carlyle." It contained the poem "Jenny kissed me."
The second story is the most frequently repeated.
Fortunately hunting was a wise editor, because it was used in the original design Jenny Nelly and the word "jaundiced" instead of "tired" in the fifth line.
Supposedly Leigh Hunt, a flirtatious man, often in trouble with his wife. Also allegedly, Jane Carlyle was a bit sour and better known for their acid tongue as for impulsive tendency.
The poem, "Jenny Kissed Me" was variously described as whimsical, charming, simple and unaffected. Many readers encounter it for the first time during their school age years and remember them throughout their lives. Many girls were called "Jenny" as a result of the fond memories of the poem.
The first striking structural feature of "Jenny Kissed Me" is the trochaic meters. This is characterized by a foot, that a syllable includes that followed by a soundless. This device is not used in formal English poetry because it can sound singing.
The trochaic meter is more common in children's songs, where a singing rhythm is welcome. Think of "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are."
The singing effect is offset by the abab rhyme scheme in the poem as a aabb rhyme scheme opposite. Former rhyme scheme creates a four-line verse as the basic unit of the poem, as in "Jenny Kissed Me". The latter rhyme scheme generates two line couplets which enhance the singing effect how children's songs in.
trochaic meter can also seriously or sound difficult due to the fact that the trochaic foot a falling pattern has (stressed syllable of a unstressed Syllable). But "Kissed Jenny Me" is a cheerful poem and is supported through the use of feminine rhymes.
lines, which will end with a stressed syllable said that male and rows to end with an unstressed syllable to be female. In "Jenny Kissed Me" lines 1, 3, 5 and 7 are male, but not worn the rhyme pattern throughout poem. Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of them are female and helps to compensate the masculine rhymes and help to make the poem feel lighter and brighter.
The insightful end to "Jenny Kissed Me" always brings a smile to the face of the reader.
About Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt was born 1784 in England and died in 1859. Many English poets and writers were contemporaries of Leigh Hunt, including Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Dickens, Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, and Charles Darwin.
While Hunt lifetime England in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 deals with America, and the 23-year period of the Napoleonic Wars with France. While Hunt lifetime the French Revolution occurred and Napoleon became Emperor of France. Later steam engines created an industrial revolution, and Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands and reported his findings. For a period of three years Hunt friends and supporters, Keats, Shelley and Byron all died young. Leigh Hunt was born
in 1784 in a poor family near London and attended school in London at Christ's Hospital founded a school 240 years earlier for the education of poor children. After leaving school, hunting took a job as a clerk in the War Office.
to start 1805 hunting with his older brother a partnership, John, a printer, a newspaper called The News. Three years later, the brothers were leaving the newspaper and created a political week that called her liberal reputation of the auditor. Among other topics, the auditor for many reforms in parliament called criticize King George III and called for the abolition of slavery.
The power of journalism came of age in this period of English history with the publication of numerous critical newspapers which were collectively known as "radical press." Consequently, the government has been very busy, though usually without success, the "radical press" for seditious libel prosecution.
In 1812, the Hunts a product to the inspector wrote that the Prince Regent, later King George IV, "a violator of his word, called a libertine to over like ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties , the companion of players and demireps. "As a result, John and Leigh hunt were selected by a jury of defamation and sentenced sentenced to two years in prison.
Although the examiner , while in prison, writing Leigh Hunt separation from his family still convinced avert him from political writings and focus on literary writing.
is released shortly after from prison, went hunting Leigh in his favorite house in Hampstead, where he could spend quality time with his wife and three children and with his literary friends. Among the friends who had stayed with hunting time in his Hampstead house Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.
had introduced earlier hunting the world to the writings of Keats and Shelley in the pages of the Examiner. His section "Young Poets" Keats and Shelley gave access to valuable space where some of her first works were published.
Keats welcomed about a year hunting guardianship. He broke away Hunt when a critic labeled Hunt and Keats as members of "The Cockney School of Poetry".
1818 Shelley and his family decided to move to Italy for health and financial reasons. His friend, Lord Byron was living at the time in Italy and the two corresponded for several years, while each lived in different parts of Italy.
would in 1821, as Shelley and Byron were both in Pisa, presented Shelley a new magazine called liberal, the Shelley, Byron, and friend, Leigh Hunt, published in Italy. Shelley sent money and an invitation to hunt and promised to provide a home and income for Hunt and his large family.
Hunt liked the view of Shelley and Byron combine in Italy and took his family in Genoa and then to take Shelley to Leghorn. After their meeting Hunt and his family to Pisa Byron went to join, and Shelley sets sail in his boat, the "Don Juan", for his home on the coast in the Casa Magni on.
Boots Shelley was surprised in a storm and sank. Shelley body and his crew flushed a few days later in Corsica ashore. Local prohibited health laws, the movement of the body to Rome or Pisa, so a month later Hunt, Byron, and family members attended a cremation of Shelley of the body. After cremation chase ended the heart that he finally returned to Shelley's wife Mary owned by Shelley.
Lord Byron was not interested in the liberal and soon leave Italy unfolding in Greece a dominant interest in the Civil War to take. Byron died in Greece of respiratory disease in 1823.
Hunt and his family were left in Italy without their friends and without income. Hunt published a few editions of the Liberal , but lacked the heart and soul and failed. Hunt received an advance for literary works and took his family, which now included seven children back to England.
hunting most of the rest of his life was impoverished. Charles Dickens was to be instrumental in agitating the Government for the payment of a pension to pay England needy authors. In 1847 hunting pensioner who alleviated, but not eliminated began his financial constraints.
Quick moves return from Italy, Hunt Chelsea, where, as he had done in the Hampstead house, he opened home to his literary friends.
The publication of Dickens' novel Bleak House to be by some critics as his best work, though its certainly not the most popular, included a character modeled after Leigh Hunt be said. The book caused a gap between Dickens and hunting to develop.
The Bleak House character, Harold Skimpole, has been described as "airy, careless and objectionable." Skimpole claims to be a child, when it comes to finances and manages all other pay his way through life to have.
Although Dickens denied that this was a characterization of Hunt and offered apologies, Hunt and his literary friends were offended.
Leigh Hunt died at the age of 75, well had of his many friends in memory. William Hazlitt, the painter and writer, said that "in conversation he is all life and animation, combining the liveliness of the schoolboy with the means of wit and taste of the scholar."
