Talk:’Tis
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[edit] Meaning of "'Tis"
Hi, what does 'Tis mean in this title? "It is"? --217.82.4.65 15:55, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, it's an archaic English expression. Compare "'Twas", meaning "It was".--Pharos 18:55, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I think the significance was that at the end of Angela's Ashes, McCourt and another newcomer marvel at how much freedom and joy America holds compared to Ireland back then. Sorry, this is from memory and inexact. The man says something like, "Tis a wonderful country!" And McCourt simply answers: "'Tis." End of book. The experience of that postive "Tis" is the next book.
I'm surprised that this summary doesn't include the artistic climax, in which NYU teacher Charles Calitri gives the battered immigrant McCourt the confidence to write. It's really moving. McCourt doesn't include it, but Calitri himself became one of the best selling authors of the 1950s. Died in 1985. Kind of sad that he didn't live to know he had this grateful student or to see him win the Pulitzer Prize. Profhum (talk) 08:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
