"The land of Nod" By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Nod

From Breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay,

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do--

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

Literary devices

-Allegory

What I think this poem means-

I believe that this poem is saying how he lives his life every day, but in the night time he enters another world. That in this world of dreams there are so many different and interesting things to see and do.

Biography

Robert Louis

Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born

on November 13, 1850, in

Edinburgh Scotland

Stevenson was prone to catching illness,

or other wise caught it very easily,

so that caused him to spend his early winters in

bed, reading his favorite works, such as some

done by william shakespeare, Sir walter scott and

the novel, the Arabian nights.

Stevenson's father

wanted him to earn a

degree in law, so to fulfill

his fathers wishes, he earned

one, but later had a stronger

desire to work with literature.

In 1876, he met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, a married woman ten years older than him. When she decided to return to San Francisco soon after they met, Stevenson followed, taking the long voyage across the Atlantic and across the United States .

When Stevenson arrived in California, he had to recover from a close brush with death from the voyage. After he recovered, he married Fanny Osbourne the following May.

His first novel "Treasure Island", was published in

1884, succesfully followed by "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1886

After the death of his father in 1887, he and his family moved to the U.S., planning to move to Colorado. When they arrived in New York however, they decided to stay for the winter. In summer-time he stayed in the Hawaiian islands for an extended time. In 1890, Stevenson purchased a four hundred-acre property in Upolu, one of the Samoan islands. He had took the native name Tusitala (Samoan for "Story Writer")

On December 3, 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson collapsed, possibly because of cerebral hemorrhage, (Rupturing of a blood vessle in the brain) and died.

The End

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In 1876, he met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, a married woman ten years his elder. When she decided to return to San Francisco soon after they met, Stevenson followed, taking the long voyage across the Atlantic and across the United States

All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do--

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do--

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do--

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

What i think the poem means-

I think that the poem is saying how he lives life normally every day,

but at night he enters a different world, a world of dreams and all

the things that he sees in it.

In 1876, he met Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, a married woman ten years older than him. When she decided to go back to san fransico, he decided to follow her, but during the voyage he came near death. After he recovered, he and Fanny married later that May.

The End

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