The Swing Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson was one of the first writers to write specifically for children and this lovely simple little poem is capable of being read by a 6 year old. To create literature for children is perhaps the greatest gift a writer can have and should never be underestimated. Although he wrote quite a lot I never feel, for all that, Stevenson ever really fulfilled his destiny as a writer, mainly as a result of his premature death. I still want to read the ending of 'Weir of Hermiston'...!

VISIT TO AN ART GALLERY It always amazes me how oil paint can simulate shapes and colors I recall a brown roof painted so brown that it held the barn tightly in a green field the sky overhead bathed the hills behind in gold and azure

so brown is something extreme..... this means going up in a swing was the extremest thing the narrator had done...... there are other words in the poem that express extremes: air so blue the pleasantest thing see so wide, cattle and all (all=everything) roof so brown**** flying (isn't flying extreme?)

Brown or so brown - what in the world are these guys talking about? Is either one of them such an accomplished poet that they can respond to 'The Swing' with such chutzpah? The poem is exactly what it seems - something a grandparent might well recite to a child whose swing is being pushed 'up in the air and down! '

Swings are associated with man's sub-conscious wish to fly.

Beautiful well written

what is the poem about?

i like this author he is amazing

One of my favorite poets . Heard one he wrote about God at church Tonight

Very very very beautiful sir....so great poem....