Who wrote the poem I said to the man who stood at The Gate of the Year?
Who wrote the poem I said to the man who stood at The Gate of the Year?
Minnie Louise Haskins
God Knows, also known as The Gate of the Year was written by Minnie Louise Haskins and famously broadcast by HM King George VI as part of his 1939 Christmas broadcast: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
Who wrote the gate?
“The Gate” is a song recorded by Icelandic musician Björk. It was released on 15 September 2017 through One Little Indian as the lead single from her ninth studio album, Utopia (2017). The song was written and produced by Björk and Arca.
What is the meaning of gate of the year?
“The Gate of the Year” is the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. The title given to it by the author was “God Knows”. She studied and then taught at the London School of Economics in the first half of the twentieth century.
When was the gate of the year written?
1908
The poem, written in 1908 and privately published in 1912, was part of a collection titled The Desert. It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire.
When did King George VI quote the Queen’s Christmas poem?
It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire. The poem may have been brought to his attention by his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Consort ).
Who was the real King George VI?
By the way, King George VI is the father of the current Queen of England, the stuttering king about which the Oscar-winning movie, the King’s Speech, is about. The British were already at war with Germany by Christmas of 1939 and the British people were expecting to see London bombed any day or night.
When did King George VI write the Christmas poem’A Christmas Carol’?
According to Wikipedia, the poem was written in 1908 and privately published in 1912. King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British empire. It was thought that his wife, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Consort, shared it with him.
Why did George VI excerpt “God knows”?
George VI excerpted the first lines of the poem, “God Knows” (aka “The Gate of the Year”) by Minnie Louise Haskins to illuminate the spiritual comfort he believed his subjects might seek as the Axis powers confronted the Allies in the early days of World War II.