Rooms
Charlotte Mew’s poem “Rooms” was published in her 1929 collection “The Rambling Sailor”.
Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15 November 1869 in Bloomsbury, London, England, and she died on 24 March 1928 in Westminster, London, England, at the age of 58.Mew’s poems are varied. Some of them are passionate discussions of faith and the possibility of belief in God; others are proto-modernist in form and atmosphere. She made experimental use of long, prose-like lines, and varieties of enjambment and indentation. Many of her poems are in the form of dramatic monologues, and she often wrote from the point of view of a male persona. Two concern mental illness.
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I remember rooms that have had their part In the steady slowing down of the heart. The room in Paris, the room at Geneva, The little damp room with the seaweed smell, And that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide — Rooms where for good or for ill — things died. But there is the room where we (two) lie dead, Though every morning we seem to wake and might just as well seem to sleep again As we shall somewhere in the other quieter, dustier bed Out there in the sun — in the rain.