The Daffodils
The poem Daffodils is all about the technique of writing poetry and also, at times in literature, the poetic of Wordsworth. The perfected example of ‘recollection in tranquillity’ of the poet. He saw some daffodils and enjoyed that sight; comes back home and he adds to his memories certain colouring of imagination and the poetic beauty and the poem is ready to be served to the masses!
However, apart from these things, the poem is also a masterpiece of the poet – the so-called nature poet of English nation. The poet enjoys in the abode of nature and he revels in the landscapes. He enjoys the river; he enjoys the flowers; he loves the sight… the poem is all about nature and love for nature. As an aid to it, the tone and rhythm of the poem makes it sublime! Wordsworth talks about the ‘bliss of solitude’ in this poem which he later takes up in his long poem The Prelude. The ‘company’ of nature, according to the poet in this poem is ‘jocund’, joyous and gay!
Wrapping up, the poem is a song of joy in the nature. In the heart of a poet, what he feels and sings, is a song; and the poet urges all of us to sing with him!
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Echo
Echo occurs when we speak; the sound of one person is echoed. Now, the poem Echo, by de la Mare is not simply about the echo of sound uttered by human beings. The poem is about the echo of actions by men and women in the world. Simply, the poem tells the readers that:
“Who cares? Who cares?”
The poet is overcome at some pauses in the poem with pessimism and it undermines his poetry perhaps. Whole poem, if interpreted otherwise, is the outcome of some pessimistic, lost person’s account and assumption of the world. There are both – the good and the bad persons in the world. Simply crying that who cares who cares does not make any sense more than revealing one’s heart about the world. Phrases like ‘dark air’ aid to the melancholy tone of the poem.
Indeed, the poem is sad account of the experience of echo. However, when we speak ‘everything is beautiful; I am happy!’ same thing we have to listen!
(Walter De La Mare, Poem, Echo, Poetry, New Poetry, Poem, New Poet, de la Mare)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Lake Isle of Innisfree is an account of the poet’s days at the place of the same name. W. B. Yeats is a great realist and spiritualist known for his scholarship and wide range of philosophy. In this poem, the poet is talking about the peace one gets in the lap of nature. Amid nature, in the love of natural scenery, nights and days in middle of the music of crickets and nature’s anklets… how beautiful can the life of a person be! The philosophy behind the poem, however, may be speculated, but – the ultimate home of a human being is nature!
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Everyone Sang
When joy comes, by any means, people generally feel excited and delighted. To express their joy, sometimes the emotional people start singing the songs of joy and happiness. The poem, as people and critics generally see it attached with, expresses the joy of people after the end of first world war in November 1918. However, it must not mar the wholesome effect of the poem in general; we must not be only Marxists and sum the poem up with that time social conditions!
Here one are is praising other art. Poetry is appraising singing! The comparisons are drawn in simple images. The freedom of joy is compared to the joy of birds set free of the cage. This image certainly creates the social scenario in the mind of the readers. The most important image in the poem, to me, seems the image of the setting Sun. ‘Beauty came like the setting Sun’ line seems to inspire many interpretations. Undoubtedly, the beauty of the setting Sun is incomparable; however, this beauty has other aspects too! Setting Sun brings night with it and night is known in the poems often as dark-image! Moreover, the song does never end! The song is sung forever… such is the joy of the poet and the people!
(Seigfried Sassoon, Poem, War poet, War Poetry, War age, 1914, 1918)
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke is the only claimed war-poet in real sense and general consensus of the critics and general readers. He was a soldier himself and took part in the war of the world. He had witnessed the war from centimetres distance and he had experienced the real agony and suffering of it!
This poem shares the voice of a soldier fighting for his home-land. What the country gives you and what you return back to your nation? Every solider fighting in the war for the nation is the child of the nation and he must yield his last breath to the service of the nation… the zenith of the poem is the scenario of patriotism!
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