![]() ![]() From here, the speaker remembers sleeping in his childhood bed and sharing a room with his brother, who he remembers once read a book called "the faithful and virtuous night" (28). The poem begins with a meditation on what it means to begin a story and how it is possible to end it after doing so, most succinctly summarized by the line "If it is so difficult to begin, imagine what it will be to end" (5). ![]() "Faithful and Virtuous Night" specifically cover the earliest portion of the painter's life-his early childhood and memories of growing up with his older brother and aunt. It is also the first of the "painter poems" in the collection-that is, those poems which follow the story of an English painter orphaned at a young age. ![]() " Faithful and Virtuous Night" is the fourth poem in Louise Glück's collection of the same name. ![]()
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