Halfway Down (poem)

Ernest Shepard illustration for "Halfway Down".
Ernest Shepard illustration for "Halfway Down".

"Halfway Down" is a poem by A.A. Milne, included in the 1924 collection When We Were Very Young. A "juvenile meditation", Zena Sutherland comments in Children & Books that both the poem and Ernest Shepard's illustration "has caught the mood of suspended action that is always overtaking small children on stairs."[1] Christopher Robin, the child in Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories, is the presumed narrator of the poem.[2]

  1. ^ Sutherland, Zena (1997). Children & Books (9th ed.). Longman. p. 292. ISBN 0-673-99733-2.
  2. ^ Swann, Thomas Burnett (1971). Twayne's English authors series: A. A. Milne. Twayne Publishers. p. 75.