This is recalling the scene where Cathy sits warm in the kitchen on that stormy night and Heathcliff is out working, grooming the horses in the stable...
I hope, I have been able to capture the mood here?


Stormy night in Wuthering Heights



Wind is whistling upon the moor,
Cold is the hand of the wind,
You work in the stable thither
and I on the warm hearth sit,
Comfort stifles me when I
Think of your icy limbs,
Trying to entwine
Around the mare-
For some warmth from the wind...



Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright © Zoya Zaidi

Set on the stormy moors of northern England, this favourite classic novel of mine is filled with the cruel and ecstatic love between the characters Heathcliff and Catherine, as they grow together as children and later as lovers

Virginia Woolf wrote of Wuthering Heights, "It is as if she could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognisable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. Hers, then, is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts, with a few touches indicate the spirit of a face so that it needs no body; by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar."

Image: Title cover of Wurhering Heights 1664




Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-11-26 at 18:28

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Larz Gustafsson
Very English!
Great poem!

I suppose you have heard the Kate Bush song...?
2007-11-27


Kathy Lockhart
oh Zoya, this gives me that same feeling, that fire burning below the surface. Wonderfully written. : ) xx
2007-11-27


Christian Lanciai The PoetBay support member heart!
Emily was far ahead of her time. Her novel was brutally criticized, which probably added to her illness and fastened her too early death - all the Brontės (Bruntys - the family came from Ireland,) were of an extremely delicate physical condition - their father refused to attend Charlotte's wedding, and she died in her first childbirth. But they gradually took the world by storm, and the love of Cathy/Heathcliff has proved enduring indeed - today most couples don't marry any more.
2007-11-27


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
May of the books writan at the time of '' Wuthring Heights'' , were the only way , woman , educated woman , could express them selfs . To express them selfs and their frustrations , sexuality but just one way. Marriages were no more than '' arranged '' marriages, so many many woman found them selfs in loveless marriages. No more than '' broude mayers. Marriages based on the joining of '' great family's''. Some of lesser family's marring off daughters in to greater famyls. The books , such as '' sense and sensibility , '' depict this very well. The books are in some what historical documents.Certainly sociological documents. Thank you fore such a good write , Zoya.

Ken D Williams
2007-11-26