Audrey Christie

Bud: Deanie, you're a nice girl.

Wilma Dean: I'm not. I'm not a nice girl.

Miss Metcalf: Now, what do you think the poet means by this line ? Deanie Loomis.

Wilma Dean: I'm sorry, Miss Metcalf. I... I didn't hear the question.

Miss Metcalf: Well, I know it's Spring, Deanie, but I must ask you to pay more attention. I quoted some lines from Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Deanie. Did you hear them ?

Wilma Dean: I'm afraid not Miss Metcalf.

Miss Metcalf: Well, then I must ask to turn your text to page 380...

Wilma Dean: Yes.

Miss Metcalf: You read the lines to me. Stand, please.

Wilma Dean: "Though nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower/We will grieve not. Rather find/Strengh in what remains behind..."

Miss Metcalf: Now, perhaps you can tell me exactly what the poet means by such expressions as "Splendor in the grass" and "Glory in the Flower".

Wilma Dean: Well, I think it have some...

Miss Metcalf: Yes ?

Wilma Dean: Well, when we're young, we looks at thing very idealistically I guess. And I think Woodsworth means that... that when we're grow-up... then, we have to... forget the ideals of youth... and find strength... Miss Metcalf, may I please be...?