Leisure
Poet: W.H Davies
What is this life if total of care,
We withdraw hold no fourth dimension to stand upwards together with stare?
No fourth dimension to stand upwards beneath the boughs
And stare every bit long every bit sheep together with cows.
No fourth dimension to consider when woods nosotros pass
Where squirrel enshroud their nuts inward grass.
No fourth dimension to consider inward broad daylight
Streams total of stars,like skies at night.
No fourth dimension to plow at Beauty s' glance
And sentry her feet, how tin they dance.
No fourth dimension to hold off till her oral fissure can
Enrich that grin her eyes began.
A piteous life if,full of care,
We withdraw hold no fourth dimension to stand upwards together with stare.
LEISURE William Davies Leisure” is a beautiful verse form past times William Davies. As the championship of the verse form suggests, it is virtually the availability of fourth dimension for relishing diverse delights of life. The poet is lamenting over the rushed together with hurried manners of the modern man. The modern human being has no costless fourth dimension to bask the delights of nature..The poet feels that the life must live relished at whatsoever cost. The verse form is a revolt against the hurried manners of the modern man. The modern human being is a passing life total of stuff pursuits. .He is all the fourth dimension running after the stuff pursuits. He is only making pots of money. He is so busy that he has totally ignored the beauties of nature all around him. He has never seen the squirrels hiding their nuts inward the grass, the streams total of stars at the twenty-four threescore minutes menses fourth dimension similar sky inward which stars twinkle at the night. The modern human being is so busy that he never observes the smiling confront of beautiful objects of nature. The objects of nature are smiling together with dancing amongst total enthusiasm. Away from nature, the modern human being s’ life has move a swirl of sorrows together with tension. He is passing a hard together with total of sorrows life. If he wants to withdraw hold peace together with comforts inward his life, he must withdraw hold some spare fourth dimension to bask the beauties of nature. Nature is the only matter which tin give comforts to his life.
Reference:
These lines withdraw hold been taken from the poem, "Leisure" composed past times W.H.Davies
Context:
In this verse form the poet is of the stance that the acquaint historic menses human being is passing a real busy life together with he has no fourth dimension to bask the beauty of the nature .This is why his life is total of tensions together with sorrows. The poet suggests that the modern human being has some spare fourth dimension to bask the beauty of nature inward monastic tell to larn existent enjoyment inward his life.
Explanation:
In the given lines the poet is of the stance that the modern human being is so busy inward his or her life that he is totally ignorant of the beauties of nature together with nature is offering all this costless of cost. The poet has used personification inward the given lines. In personification , the poet endowers the qualities of animate to inanimate objects together with things.
TARTARY
If I were lord of Tartary
Myself together with me alone,
My bed should live of ivory,
Of beaten aureate my throne,
And inward my courtroom should peacocks flaunt,
And inward my forests tigers haunt,
And inward my pools great fishes slant,
Their fins athwart the sun.
If I were lord of Tartary,
Trumpeters every day
To every repast would summon me,
And inward my courtyard bray,
And inward the eventide lamps would shine,
Yellow every bit honey, crimson every bit wine,
While harp together with flute together with mandoline,
Made music sugariness together with gay.
If I wrere lord of Tartary,
I 'd apparel a robe of beads,
White together with gold, together with greenish they 'd be-
And clustered thick every bit seeds,
And ere should wane the morning-star,
I 'd don my robe together with scimitar,
And zebras 7 should pull my car
Through Tartary dark glades.
Lord of the fruits of Tartary,
Her river silverish pale!
Lord of the hills of Tartary,
Glen, thicket,wood, together with dale!
Her flashing stars, her scented breeze
Her trembling lakes, similar foamless seas,
Her bird-delighting citron trees,
In every regal vale.
Walter De La Mare Walter De La Mare is known for his dream verses. He enjoys creating imaginary atmosphere. Tartary is dream verse form inward which the poet gives us a beautiful description of an imaginary solid ground The verse form is a journeying into the realm of imagination. The poet imagines himself to live the lord of Tartary. There is a rich diversity of exotic colors inward the poem. The poet wants to live the sole ruler of the imaginative solid ground Tartary. He wishes to withdraw hold the bed made of elephant teeth. His throne would live of beaten aureate together with peacocks would live moving beautifully inward his royal court. His forests would live total of tigers together with his pools would live total of fishes of rare kind. Being the lord of that imaginative land, he would similar to bask the music of his ain choice together with his house would ever live ringing amongst sugariness music. Being the lord of Tartary, he would apparel a robe which would live beautifully decorated amongst beads of dissimilar colours. His automobile would live drawn past times 7 zebras. Being the absolute sovereign of Tartary, he would live the sole possessor of everything there. He would bask the beauty of its rivers, hills, valleys, forests together with thickets. He would bask the freshness of scented breeze. His lakes together with seas would give him great pleasure. His birds would give him delights amongst their sugariness melodies.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Elizabeth Sewell This is a brusk sugariness verse form which tells us virtually the promises of the poetess made past times her at the arrival of New Year. Generally the novel twelvemonth arrival is a fourth dimension of merry making, dancing, drinking etc. It is also a tome of self-examination together with for the training of the adjacent twelvemonth inward a ameliorate way. In the verse form the poetess is determined to celebrate the New Year's Day away from traditional manners. At the arrival of the New Year's Day she makes iii promises to herself. This verse form also tells us that the poetess had been a talkative lady together with this habit of talking had contaminated her soul. She had totally forgotten of her rootage that was why she had move somewhat proudy. In the past times years, she had no courage to confront the bitter realities of life. Now, at the arrival of the novel tear, she makes iii promises to herself. Her initiative of all hope to herself is that she would remain tranquillity most of the fourth dimension together with motive behind this hope is that she wants to purify her dead soul. May live she has leant, “Silence is gold. “Her 2nd hope is that she would know of her life rootage 2 times a day. By doing so , she would escape the vanity of life. He 3rd hope is that she would confront the bitter realities of life. She would prevarication inward the bony arms of reality together with would larn comfort out of it. Reality is but similar bitter pill, hard to swallow but furnish comfort inward the long run The verse form is brusk but message is deep one.
WOMAN WORK
Maya Angelou
The poem, Woman Work" describes the irksome together with dismal experience of a mutual adult woman who is ever busy inward the household activities. The adult woman gives went to her disgust for the irksome drab life of doing domestic chores similar cooking, cleaning, washing etc. She has to attend the children. She has to create clean the floors together with she also has to purchase nutrient from the market. She has to create the nutrient for the members of her family. She has to facial expression after her petty babies. She has to move on the line solid tidy together with to move on everything inward order. She has also to facial expression after her garden. She cheers every bit if she were non a normal human beingness but a machine. She has lost her identity. She wants re-assurance. She knows that nature tin re-assure her together with aid her render to the normal life. This is why she requests to the elements of nature to aid her .She wants to convey refuge inward the lap of the nature. She requests the sunshine to smooth on her, pelting to pelting on her, snowflakes to autumn gently on her. She becomes somewhat possessive virtually the objects of nature. She wants peace together with comfort together with nature is the only matter which tin give her peace together with comfort
THE REBEL
D.J. Enright
The Rebel" is a satirical verse form past times D.J. Enright. It is a verse form total f ironic remarks together with situations. It is semi humorous. The verse form projects the contrasts inward the personality of a rebel. This rebel goes against the norms together with regulations of the guild inward monastic tell to live looked different. The verse form bears a moral message that nosotros should non bear stupidly to others similar him. When at that spot is a tendency of having brusk pilus inward the society, the rebel lets his pilus grow long. When the people are having long hair, the rebel grows his pilus short. When wearing uniform wearing apparel is the monastic tell of the day, the rebel wears colorful wearing apparel or vice versa. When at that spot is consummate quiet inward the class, the rebel creates a disturbance. When students start questioning to the lecturer, the rebel does non say fifty-fifty a unmarried word. In the companionship of domestic dog lovers, he gives preference to the cats together with inward the companionship of cat’s lovers he puts goodness words for dogs. In the mutual frigidity weather, when the people are greeting for sunshine, he prays for the pelting together with when the people great for rain, he regrets the absence of the sun. When people similar to move out to attend a meeting, he stays at the abode together with reads some mass or vice versa. When people asks for more, he says no cheers together with when people say no thanks, he asks for to a greater extent than The poet real beautifully presents these contrasts inward the personality of rebel. These contrasts create humour for the reader.
PATRIOT INTO TRAITOR
Robert Browning
This verse form tells us that zilch is permanent inward the basis of politics. People may similar some politicians right away but may plow against him inward the adjacent moment. The verse form is a beautiful dramatic monologue of Browning..The verse form also furthers the thought that if a politico practise nepotism, uses unfair agency together with misuses his power, he is washed away inward the listing of top ranking. The patriot turned into traitor is telling his story that how 1 twelvemonth agone he was welcomed past times the people when he came into the basis of politics. People were prepare to move out for him. They were throwing flowers over him madly. They wanted consider fifty-fifty a glimpse of their favourite hero .Banners together with flags were pasted to welcome him. The people were prepare to lay downwards their lives fifty-fifty on a slight signal given to them past times the hero. They were prepare to practise impossible tasks for him. After 1 twelvemonth the province of affairs changes. And it all happens due to his follies together with misdeeds. Now the populace has tuned against him. There are ntot giving him a warm welcome. The irony of province of affairs works. Now he is beingness tried nether the treason charges. He is beingness taken to gallows where he is to live hanged every bit the outcome for his misdeeds. Now at that spot is non a large gathering , only some sick people are there. People are showering stones over him every bit they loathe him shape the gist of their heart. The terminal stanza of this sonnet tells us the optimism of the patriot turned into traitor. He is of the stance that he has got the upper-case alphabetic character penalty every bit the vantage for his misdeeds together with inward the adjacent basis God would favour him together with would forgive him. So inward this province of affairs he is safer rather than safe.
The Huntsman Edward
Lowbury Edward
Lowbury is a human being of versatile personality. He ordinarily writes the poems bearing some moral lessons. He remained inward Republic of Kenya for 2 years. Basically , this verse form is based on Kenyan folktale but amongst a moral message. The irony together with suspense inward the verse form create a shocking impact. Kagwa was a hunter who used to hunt lions inward the forest. One twenty-four threescore minutes menses , inward the forest, he saw a skull of a human being which talked t him. He asked the skull, “How did yous come upwards here?” The skull replied, “Talking brought me here.”Kagwa was a fool. He did non empathize the message of the skull. He went to manful somebody monarch palace together with told the manful somebody monarch virtually the talking scull. The manful somebody monarch was a wise person. He said that he had never heard or seen a skull which could speak. He sent his 2 guards amongst kagwa to the wood to search the skull amongst that quality. He ordered the guards that they must kill Kagwa if they works life no talking skull. They nosotros cyberspace to the forest. For days together with night, they works life nothing. At lastly they saw the skull lying nether a tree. Kagwa implored the skull how it had come upwards inward that situation. The skull was mum. As per the orders of the king, the guard killed Kaggwa amongst a sword. When they departed, the skull opened its oral fissure together with said, “Huntsman, how did yous come upwards here?” The daed Kagwa answered, “Talking brought me here.”The hunter becomes hunted at the destination of the peon.
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
. The tone together with mental attitude of the poetess inward the verse form is mocking non serious but the underlying message is serious. The truthful fine art of losing helps us inculcate a spirit of credence together with resignation. The loss of door keys together with the loss of an empire should live faced amongst a smiling confront together with a stout heart. In this way a defeat or disaster loses its bitterness together with gives us hope together with strength to facial expression ahead. Life is fusion of success together with failure, joy together with sorrows, gain together with loss etc. During the brusk bridge of life, 1 has to confront some unexpected together with precipitous turns. Sometimes these turns add together to our joy together with sometimes to our sorrows. Failure together with losses inward life are numerous together with consequently, sorrows dominate. Yet 1 has to hope for a ameliorate time. The verse form is virtually the fine art of becoming adept of losing things. The poetess says that it is non at all hard to move an adept of losing things. To live the original of losing things, nosotros should lose something every twenty-four threescore minutes menses without feeling disturbed at the loss..The poetess lost herself her woman parent s’ sentry together with iii loved houses where she had lived She also forgot 2 cities, some states, rivers together with a continent. The loss of all this did non campaign disturbance for her. She is non fifty-fifty bothered virtually the loss of love, dear vices together with the gestures of love. She has mastered the fine art of losing together with is, therefore, comfortable together with does non experience whatsoever disturbance at losing anything.
The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth is a famous poet of nature. He by together with large writes virtually the Mother Nature. He seeks double pleasance inward the objects of nature; initiative of all he observes nature physically, secondly past times flashing dorsum the memories of his experience. The Solitary Reaper”, is a delightful verse form past times Wordsworth..During his see to Scotland, he came across a lovely maiden who was working all solitary inward the fields. She was singing together with reaping the crops. The daughter had move an object of nature for the poet. She was singing a sugariness vocal inward her native language. The poet was unable to empathize the meanings of the song. But he was much impressed past times the symphony of the song. The poet compared the phonation of the daughter to that of cuckoo bird, cooing at the islands of Hebrides, that of the chanting of nightingale, that of desert vocalizer but he concluded that her phonation was sweeter than all vices. The poet had a strong want to know virtually the subject of the song. He tried to gauge the subject of the vocal every bit it was beingness sung inward a local dialect.The poet was much impressed past times the vocal of that girl. The poet together with so went away together with crossed into some other valley. He could non hear the music physically but he was enjoying it inward his imagination. He felt that his oculus was total of the music of her song. Thus the poet suggests that nature gives him double pleasure. He enjoys it at the fourth dimension when he is physically inward contact amongst objects of nature together with he enjoys them over again when he recollects them inward his imagination. Their beauty is stored inward his imagination for ever which is a permanent source of joy for him.
All The World ‘s Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Stage
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist together with the poet. He ordinarily writes dramatic tragedies. But every off together with on , he writes poem. He himself was a goodness actor. So, inward this poem, nosotros bring out this touch. He has compared the basis to a phase together with men together with women its actors together with actresses. He divides the life bridge of a human being into 7 acts. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 human being comes on the phase of basis together with after performing his assigned roles he leaves the phase I , e dies. First of all he plays the purpose of an baby who is weeping together with vomiting out milk inward his nurses’ arms. After that, he becomes a schoolhouse going child, who is going to schoolhouse unwillingly amongst his bag. Then he becomes a lover who is sighing similar a furnace together with singing lamentable songs which he had composed inward the praise of his honey s’ eye- brow. At the 4th stage, he becomes a soldier, a practical human being who quick inward quarrel together with is prepare to move out for the sake of bubble reputation. His 5th purpose is similar that of a wise somebody amongst a fair circular belly who quotes modern instances together with proverbs inward his talks. The 6th phase turns him into a leaned together with slippered pantaloon erstwhile human being heaving glasses on his nose. His phonation trembles when he speaks. At the 7th together with lastly stage, he becomes also much erstwhile man. He develops a hobbit of forgetting things. He is without teeth, without eye-sight together with sans taste. Now he is prepare to leave of absence the phase of the world.
A POISON TREE
William Blake
The poem, “A Poison Tree” is built upwards on several contrasts: friend, foe; love, hate; trust, deceit, etc. The linguistic communication of the verse form is unproblematic soundless the message of the verse form is deep one. The poet talks virtually the nourishment of hatred. Hated is the outcome of mistrust, friends tin forget together with forgive but enemies nurse their grudges The poet gives a moral lesson past times describing imaginary events.The poet was angry amongst his friend. He expressed his wrath to him together with ultimately his angriness vanished. But 1 time he was angry amongst his foe, he did non tell him virtually his angriness together with every bit a outcome his angriness multiplied. The poet nursed this pant of hatred. He sunned it amongst faux smiles together with watered it past times his fears. The poet s’ hatred became a tree. At lastly it bore an apple tree on it. The foe thought that it was his friend s’ apple. So, 1 nighttime he entered secretly into his garden together with ate the apple tree which was total of poison. The toxicant worked together with the foe died at once. In the adjacent morning, the poet was real happy to consider him lying dead nether the apple tree tree. So, the feelings of hatred took the life of a person.
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
Emily Dickinson
It is a mystic verse form written past times a mystic poetess Emily Dickinson. Her by together with large poems bears the subject of death. Death is a gateway to the adjacent world. Everyone believes that, Death conquers all”. It is a reality which cannot live denied. Death is definite; at that spot is no escape from it. We may or may non think but it comes definitely at its appointed time.We should non live afraid of it because it is non the end. It is the get-go of novel life. The poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death” also describes the same fact virtually death. The poetess talks virtually expiry together with its gentle nature of its approach. Death is seen non an destination but every bit the get-go of immortality. This verse form also gives symbolic meanings. The children playing inward the basis symbolizes childhood. The plain of gazing grain symbolizes the youth together with the setting Sun presents the symbol of erstwhile age. Ultimately, her imagined funeral journeying reached the grave. It seems every bit swelling of the ground. It is similar a abode whose roof is scarcely visible. It is the house where the poetess is to live buried. After death, inward the adjacent world, the concept of fourth dimension together with infinite vanishes. Many centuries elapses but to the poetess it feels shorter than a day. Now she has guessed that her journeying of life is non towards expiry but it was a journeying towards eternity. Throughout the poem, the poetess’ handling also dash is real polite. The verse form elaborates the subject of death.
LIGHTS OUT
Edward Thomas.
Lights out “is a verse form that views slumber from a real interesting angle. Sleep has a paramount mightiness over all human being s’ passionate interests together with activities, his joys together with sorrows. No 1 tin withstand its lure. All day, from early on morn men pursue diverse activities, goodness or bad but at nighttime autumn they completely relinquish the witting concur upon life. They bring out themselves of a precipitous submerged past times the oblivion of sleep. The authorisation of slumber equalizes all men both who treaded the direct path together with those who tread the crooked path of life. After reading the poem, a sense of gratitude is around for the approbation of sleep. Life is a ceaseless struggle. Man works from dawn to dusk together with keeps himself busy inward the diverse activities of life. He is, at times, successful, but miserably fails at the diverse occasions. He is ordinarily exhausted past times the twenty-four threescore minutes menses long struggle. The tensions of life operate heavily on him. He is completely tired together with worn out. At night, he abandons his work. When asleep, he is forgetful of everything, goodness or bad, happy or unhappy. Sleep works a tonic lawsuit on him. In the morning, he is fresh, prepare to part the activities of life 1 time again. The poet pleads that the slumber is a great gift of God, a approbation on human beings.Sleep sooths together with comforts us past times making us forget everything for the fourth dimension being.Same is the instance of death. It saves us from all mad activities of life together with its worries. The verse form dwells on the mightiness of sleep. Our routine activities, our desires together with ambitions must give way to the concur that slumber has over us. Things that are most dearly cherished, every bit a favorite mass or a loved confront are willing relinquished every bit nosotros bring out ourselves slipping gently into the blessed basis of sleep. It has the equalizing effect. All are bailiwick to its spell saltation power, ---the rich, the poor, the virtuous or the vicious.
THE VANISHING VILLAGE
R.S. Thomas
Thomas is a Welsh poet who was born inward Wales inward 1903.He got his early on didactics at a local schoolhouse together with after on joined a seminary for becoming a priest In the poem, “The vanishing Village”, the poet laments over the rapid reject of the villages. It is said that the basis is turning fast into a Global Village without villages. The unchecked, unabated large scale migration towards cities goes on worldwide. The poet does non similar it. He believes inward the theory of Plato that the hamlet is the basic unit of measurement of the world. In the verse form the poet has projected a gloomy moving-picture demo of a hamlet that is on its way to destruction. There are a few houses inward the village. It has only 1 street that is leading nowhere together with is eaten away past times the tide of greenish grass. It agency that the hamlet is disconnected from the residuum of the world..The hamlet contains the population equal to none, so at that spot is petty action inward it. There is only 1 store together with 1 inn inward the village. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dark domestic dog that is sitting inward the hot Sun together with slap-up its fleas is the only history. The concept of fourth dimension together with infinite is beingness vanished inward the village. The daughter moving from 1 door to some other is a ray of hope. The verse form is based on the Plato s’ theory that the hamlet is the basic unit of measurement of this world. If 1 wants to salve the world, 1 must salve the village. Large scale immigration to the cities must live checked.
WHEN I HAVE FEARS
John Keats
John Keats was born inward 1795 together with died inward 1821.He is 1 of the greatest English linguistic communication romantics poets. His early on verse form including ‘Endymion’ had to confront severe criticism. His 2nd mass appeared inward 1820 together with this contains his best operate including the great ode. The sonnet, “ When I Fears “, is of great significance when nosotros bear inward withdraw heed the fact that Keats died at a real immature historic menses of twenty-six years old. The subject of the sonnets is the fears of the poet that he would move out inward a immature historic menses earlier the fulfillment of his poetic potent9ial.His initiative of all fearfulness is that he may move out soon. The poet was suffering from T.B together with at that fourth dimension it was a real fatal disease. So, his this fearfulness came truthful when he died at the ripe historic menses of 20 six. His 2nd fearfulness was that he volition non move a famous poet inward his life. The reality is totally inward favor of this fearfulness inward the withdraw heed of the poet. When he started writing poetry, he had to confront a severe criticism, so he was non able to larn the expected fame. In instance of his love he remained unsuccessful. He was inward love amongst a beautiful adult woman but his love was 1 sided together with unreflecting every bit that adult woman was inward love amongst some other fellow. Keats was a great lover of beauty. He was of the view, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 matter of beauty is a joy forever,” But inward his life bridge Keats did non relish the gustation of beauty. Rejected from every sphere of life, he is standing solitary on the shore of the basis together with is thinking that love together with fame or zilch inward this world
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KUBLLA KHAN
S.T. Coleridge
Coleridge is a basis famous poet. Just every bit Keats shows his identity inward beauty, Coleridge shows his identity inward supernaturalism. His basis famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” together with “Christable” are the best examples of Coleridge s’ supernaturalism. In this poem, he speaks of the grandeur of Kubla Khan s’ palace. The poet takes the flying inward his imagination together with tries to create the palace every bit a rare device. The verse form has been written nether the influence of opium. Under the lawsuit of this medicine he dreamed of the house of Kubla Khan a Mongol emperor In the verse form the poet is non discussing virtually kubla khan but of his palace. Kubla khan ordered to create a palace inward Xanadu where the sacred river Alph flowed. It was a site of superb beauty. It was a house every bit enchanted every bit a house that is haunted past times a adult woman wailing for her demon lover. There was a romantic chasm which went obliquely downwards to the gradient of greenish loma covered amongst cedarn trees. Out of this chasm, at that spot gushed out a great outpouring vaulting out stones amongst water. The river passed through the enchanted solid ground for 5 miles earlier falling into the sea..The palace was built inward the fertile basis of x miles area. The reflection of the domes of the palace floated mid inward the mid of the sacred river. Once the poet saw a maiden who was singing of mountain Abora .She was an Abyssinian girl. The poet was much impressed past times the symphony of her song. The poet desires to revive the vocal of that daughter every bit amongst the aid of that vocal he wants to rebuild the palace of Kubla Khan inward his imagination. In the destination , the poet has labeled Kubla khan every bit a supernatural graphic symbol who forces the seers to unopen their eyes amongst holy dread every bit he has been fed amongst heavenly food.
Poem Snake past times D.H Lawrence
Poet: W.H Davies
What is this life if total of care,
We withdraw hold no fourth dimension to stand upwards together with stare?
No fourth dimension to stand upwards beneath the boughs
And stare every bit long every bit sheep together with cows.
No fourth dimension to consider when woods nosotros pass
Where squirrel enshroud their nuts inward grass.
No fourth dimension to consider inward broad daylight
Streams total of stars,like skies at night.
No fourth dimension to plow at Beauty s' glance
And sentry her feet, how tin they dance.
No fourth dimension to hold off till her oral fissure can
Enrich that grin her eyes began.
A piteous life if,full of care,
We withdraw hold no fourth dimension to stand upwards together with stare.
LEISURE William Davies Leisure” is a beautiful verse form past times William Davies. As the championship of the verse form suggests, it is virtually the availability of fourth dimension for relishing diverse delights of life. The poet is lamenting over the rushed together with hurried manners of the modern man. The modern human being has no costless fourth dimension to bask the delights of nature..The poet feels that the life must live relished at whatsoever cost. The verse form is a revolt against the hurried manners of the modern man. The modern human being is a passing life total of stuff pursuits. .He is all the fourth dimension running after the stuff pursuits. He is only making pots of money. He is so busy that he has totally ignored the beauties of nature all around him. He has never seen the squirrels hiding their nuts inward the grass, the streams total of stars at the twenty-four threescore minutes menses fourth dimension similar sky inward which stars twinkle at the night. The modern human being is so busy that he never observes the smiling confront of beautiful objects of nature. The objects of nature are smiling together with dancing amongst total enthusiasm. Away from nature, the modern human being s’ life has move a swirl of sorrows together with tension. He is passing a hard together with total of sorrows life. If he wants to withdraw hold peace together with comforts inward his life, he must withdraw hold some spare fourth dimension to bask the beauties of nature. Nature is the only matter which tin give comforts to his life.
Reference:
These lines withdraw hold been taken from the poem, "Leisure" composed past times W.H.Davies
Context:
In this verse form the poet is of the stance that the acquaint historic menses human being is passing a real busy life together with he has no fourth dimension to bask the beauty of the nature .This is why his life is total of tensions together with sorrows. The poet suggests that the modern human being has some spare fourth dimension to bask the beauty of nature inward monastic tell to larn existent enjoyment inward his life.
Explanation:
In the given lines the poet is of the stance that the modern human being is so busy inward his or her life that he is totally ignorant of the beauties of nature together with nature is offering all this costless of cost. The poet has used personification inward the given lines. In personification , the poet endowers the qualities of animate to inanimate objects together with things.
TARTARY
If I were lord of Tartary
Myself together with me alone,
My bed should live of ivory,
Of beaten aureate my throne,
And inward my courtroom should peacocks flaunt,
And inward my forests tigers haunt,
And inward my pools great fishes slant,
Their fins athwart the sun.
If I were lord of Tartary,
Trumpeters every day
To every repast would summon me,
And inward my courtyard bray,
And inward the eventide lamps would shine,
Yellow every bit honey, crimson every bit wine,
While harp together with flute together with mandoline,
Made music sugariness together with gay.
If I wrere lord of Tartary,
I 'd apparel a robe of beads,
White together with gold, together with greenish they 'd be-
And clustered thick every bit seeds,
And ere should wane the morning-star,
I 'd don my robe together with scimitar,
And zebras 7 should pull my car
Through Tartary dark glades.
Lord of the fruits of Tartary,
Her river silverish pale!
Lord of the hills of Tartary,
Glen, thicket,wood, together with dale!
Her flashing stars, her scented breeze
Her trembling lakes, similar foamless seas,
Her bird-delighting citron trees,
In every regal vale.
Walter De La Mare Walter De La Mare is known for his dream verses. He enjoys creating imaginary atmosphere. Tartary is dream verse form inward which the poet gives us a beautiful description of an imaginary solid ground The verse form is a journeying into the realm of imagination. The poet imagines himself to live the lord of Tartary. There is a rich diversity of exotic colors inward the poem. The poet wants to live the sole ruler of the imaginative solid ground Tartary. He wishes to withdraw hold the bed made of elephant teeth. His throne would live of beaten aureate together with peacocks would live moving beautifully inward his royal court. His forests would live total of tigers together with his pools would live total of fishes of rare kind. Being the lord of that imaginative land, he would similar to bask the music of his ain choice together with his house would ever live ringing amongst sugariness music. Being the lord of Tartary, he would apparel a robe which would live beautifully decorated amongst beads of dissimilar colours. His automobile would live drawn past times 7 zebras. Being the absolute sovereign of Tartary, he would live the sole possessor of everything there. He would bask the beauty of its rivers, hills, valleys, forests together with thickets. He would bask the freshness of scented breeze. His lakes together with seas would give him great pleasure. His birds would give him delights amongst their sugariness melodies.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Elizabeth Sewell This is a brusk sugariness verse form which tells us virtually the promises of the poetess made past times her at the arrival of New Year. Generally the novel twelvemonth arrival is a fourth dimension of merry making, dancing, drinking etc. It is also a tome of self-examination together with for the training of the adjacent twelvemonth inward a ameliorate way. In the verse form the poetess is determined to celebrate the New Year's Day away from traditional manners. At the arrival of the New Year's Day she makes iii promises to herself. This verse form also tells us that the poetess had been a talkative lady together with this habit of talking had contaminated her soul. She had totally forgotten of her rootage that was why she had move somewhat proudy. In the past times years, she had no courage to confront the bitter realities of life. Now, at the arrival of the novel tear, she makes iii promises to herself. Her initiative of all hope to herself is that she would remain tranquillity most of the fourth dimension together with motive behind this hope is that she wants to purify her dead soul. May live she has leant, “Silence is gold. “Her 2nd hope is that she would know of her life rootage 2 times a day. By doing so , she would escape the vanity of life. He 3rd hope is that she would confront the bitter realities of life. She would prevarication inward the bony arms of reality together with would larn comfort out of it. Reality is but similar bitter pill, hard to swallow but furnish comfort inward the long run The verse form is brusk but message is deep one.
WOMAN WORK
Maya Angelou
The poem, Woman Work" describes the irksome together with dismal experience of a mutual adult woman who is ever busy inward the household activities. The adult woman gives went to her disgust for the irksome drab life of doing domestic chores similar cooking, cleaning, washing etc. She has to attend the children. She has to create clean the floors together with she also has to purchase nutrient from the market. She has to create the nutrient for the members of her family. She has to facial expression after her petty babies. She has to move on the line solid tidy together with to move on everything inward order. She has also to facial expression after her garden. She cheers every bit if she were non a normal human beingness but a machine. She has lost her identity. She wants re-assurance. She knows that nature tin re-assure her together with aid her render to the normal life. This is why she requests to the elements of nature to aid her .She wants to convey refuge inward the lap of the nature. She requests the sunshine to smooth on her, pelting to pelting on her, snowflakes to autumn gently on her. She becomes somewhat possessive virtually the objects of nature. She wants peace together with comfort together with nature is the only matter which tin give her peace together with comfort
THE REBEL
D.J. Enright
The Rebel" is a satirical verse form past times D.J. Enright. It is a verse form total f ironic remarks together with situations. It is semi humorous. The verse form projects the contrasts inward the personality of a rebel. This rebel goes against the norms together with regulations of the guild inward monastic tell to live looked different. The verse form bears a moral message that nosotros should non bear stupidly to others similar him. When at that spot is a tendency of having brusk pilus inward the society, the rebel lets his pilus grow long. When the people are having long hair, the rebel grows his pilus short. When wearing uniform wearing apparel is the monastic tell of the day, the rebel wears colorful wearing apparel or vice versa. When at that spot is consummate quiet inward the class, the rebel creates a disturbance. When students start questioning to the lecturer, the rebel does non say fifty-fifty a unmarried word. In the companionship of domestic dog lovers, he gives preference to the cats together with inward the companionship of cat’s lovers he puts goodness words for dogs. In the mutual frigidity weather, when the people are greeting for sunshine, he prays for the pelting together with when the people great for rain, he regrets the absence of the sun. When people similar to move out to attend a meeting, he stays at the abode together with reads some mass or vice versa. When people asks for more, he says no cheers together with when people say no thanks, he asks for to a greater extent than The poet real beautifully presents these contrasts inward the personality of rebel. These contrasts create humour for the reader.
PATRIOT INTO TRAITOR
Robert Browning
This verse form tells us that zilch is permanent inward the basis of politics. People may similar some politicians right away but may plow against him inward the adjacent moment. The verse form is a beautiful dramatic monologue of Browning..The verse form also furthers the thought that if a politico practise nepotism, uses unfair agency together with misuses his power, he is washed away inward the listing of top ranking. The patriot turned into traitor is telling his story that how 1 twelvemonth agone he was welcomed past times the people when he came into the basis of politics. People were prepare to move out for him. They were throwing flowers over him madly. They wanted consider fifty-fifty a glimpse of their favourite hero .Banners together with flags were pasted to welcome him. The people were prepare to lay downwards their lives fifty-fifty on a slight signal given to them past times the hero. They were prepare to practise impossible tasks for him. After 1 twelvemonth the province of affairs changes. And it all happens due to his follies together with misdeeds. Now the populace has tuned against him. There are ntot giving him a warm welcome. The irony of province of affairs works. Now he is beingness tried nether the treason charges. He is beingness taken to gallows where he is to live hanged every bit the outcome for his misdeeds. Now at that spot is non a large gathering , only some sick people are there. People are showering stones over him every bit they loathe him shape the gist of their heart. The terminal stanza of this sonnet tells us the optimism of the patriot turned into traitor. He is of the stance that he has got the upper-case alphabetic character penalty every bit the vantage for his misdeeds together with inward the adjacent basis God would favour him together with would forgive him. So inward this province of affairs he is safer rather than safe.
The Huntsman Edward
Lowbury Edward
Lowbury is a human being of versatile personality. He ordinarily writes the poems bearing some moral lessons. He remained inward Republic of Kenya for 2 years. Basically , this verse form is based on Kenyan folktale but amongst a moral message. The irony together with suspense inward the verse form create a shocking impact. Kagwa was a hunter who used to hunt lions inward the forest. One twenty-four threescore minutes menses , inward the forest, he saw a skull of a human being which talked t him. He asked the skull, “How did yous come upwards here?” The skull replied, “Talking brought me here.”Kagwa was a fool. He did non empathize the message of the skull. He went to manful somebody monarch palace together with told the manful somebody monarch virtually the talking scull. The manful somebody monarch was a wise person. He said that he had never heard or seen a skull which could speak. He sent his 2 guards amongst kagwa to the wood to search the skull amongst that quality. He ordered the guards that they must kill Kagwa if they works life no talking skull. They nosotros cyberspace to the forest. For days together with night, they works life nothing. At lastly they saw the skull lying nether a tree. Kagwa implored the skull how it had come upwards inward that situation. The skull was mum. As per the orders of the king, the guard killed Kaggwa amongst a sword. When they departed, the skull opened its oral fissure together with said, “Huntsman, how did yous come upwards here?” The daed Kagwa answered, “Talking brought me here.”The hunter becomes hunted at the destination of the peon.
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
. The tone together with mental attitude of the poetess inward the verse form is mocking non serious but the underlying message is serious. The truthful fine art of losing helps us inculcate a spirit of credence together with resignation. The loss of door keys together with the loss of an empire should live faced amongst a smiling confront together with a stout heart. In this way a defeat or disaster loses its bitterness together with gives us hope together with strength to facial expression ahead. Life is fusion of success together with failure, joy together with sorrows, gain together with loss etc. During the brusk bridge of life, 1 has to confront some unexpected together with precipitous turns. Sometimes these turns add together to our joy together with sometimes to our sorrows. Failure together with losses inward life are numerous together with consequently, sorrows dominate. Yet 1 has to hope for a ameliorate time. The verse form is virtually the fine art of becoming adept of losing things. The poetess says that it is non at all hard to move an adept of losing things. To live the original of losing things, nosotros should lose something every twenty-four threescore minutes menses without feeling disturbed at the loss..The poetess lost herself her woman parent s’ sentry together with iii loved houses where she had lived She also forgot 2 cities, some states, rivers together with a continent. The loss of all this did non campaign disturbance for her. She is non fifty-fifty bothered virtually the loss of love, dear vices together with the gestures of love. She has mastered the fine art of losing together with is, therefore, comfortable together with does non experience whatsoever disturbance at losing anything.
The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth is a famous poet of nature. He by together with large writes virtually the Mother Nature. He seeks double pleasance inward the objects of nature; initiative of all he observes nature physically, secondly past times flashing dorsum the memories of his experience. The Solitary Reaper”, is a delightful verse form past times Wordsworth..During his see to Scotland, he came across a lovely maiden who was working all solitary inward the fields. She was singing together with reaping the crops. The daughter had move an object of nature for the poet. She was singing a sugariness vocal inward her native language. The poet was unable to empathize the meanings of the song. But he was much impressed past times the symphony of the song. The poet compared the phonation of the daughter to that of cuckoo bird, cooing at the islands of Hebrides, that of the chanting of nightingale, that of desert vocalizer but he concluded that her phonation was sweeter than all vices. The poet had a strong want to know virtually the subject of the song. He tried to gauge the subject of the vocal every bit it was beingness sung inward a local dialect.The poet was much impressed past times the vocal of that girl. The poet together with so went away together with crossed into some other valley. He could non hear the music physically but he was enjoying it inward his imagination. He felt that his oculus was total of the music of her song. Thus the poet suggests that nature gives him double pleasure. He enjoys it at the fourth dimension when he is physically inward contact amongst objects of nature together with he enjoys them over again when he recollects them inward his imagination. Their beauty is stored inward his imagination for ever which is a permanent source of joy for him.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist together with the poet. He ordinarily writes dramatic tragedies. But every off together with on , he writes poem. He himself was a goodness actor. So, inward this poem, nosotros bring out this touch. He has compared the basis to a phase together with men together with women its actors together with actresses. He divides the life bridge of a human being into 7 acts. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 human being comes on the phase of basis together with after performing his assigned roles he leaves the phase I , e dies. First of all he plays the purpose of an baby who is weeping together with vomiting out milk inward his nurses’ arms. After that, he becomes a schoolhouse going child, who is going to schoolhouse unwillingly amongst his bag. Then he becomes a lover who is sighing similar a furnace together with singing lamentable songs which he had composed inward the praise of his honey s’ eye- brow. At the 4th stage, he becomes a soldier, a practical human being who quick inward quarrel together with is prepare to move out for the sake of bubble reputation. His 5th purpose is similar that of a wise somebody amongst a fair circular belly who quotes modern instances together with proverbs inward his talks. The 6th phase turns him into a leaned together with slippered pantaloon erstwhile human being heaving glasses on his nose. His phonation trembles when he speaks. At the 7th together with lastly stage, he becomes also much erstwhile man. He develops a hobbit of forgetting things. He is without teeth, without eye-sight together with sans taste. Now he is prepare to leave of absence the phase of the world.
A POISON TREE
William Blake
The poem, “A Poison Tree” is built upwards on several contrasts: friend, foe; love, hate; trust, deceit, etc. The linguistic communication of the verse form is unproblematic soundless the message of the verse form is deep one. The poet talks virtually the nourishment of hatred. Hated is the outcome of mistrust, friends tin forget together with forgive but enemies nurse their grudges The poet gives a moral lesson past times describing imaginary events.The poet was angry amongst his friend. He expressed his wrath to him together with ultimately his angriness vanished. But 1 time he was angry amongst his foe, he did non tell him virtually his angriness together with every bit a outcome his angriness multiplied. The poet nursed this pant of hatred. He sunned it amongst faux smiles together with watered it past times his fears. The poet s’ hatred became a tree. At lastly it bore an apple tree on it. The foe thought that it was his friend s’ apple. So, 1 nighttime he entered secretly into his garden together with ate the apple tree which was total of poison. The toxicant worked together with the foe died at once. In the adjacent morning, the poet was real happy to consider him lying dead nether the apple tree tree. So, the feelings of hatred took the life of a person.
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
Emily Dickinson
It is a mystic verse form written past times a mystic poetess Emily Dickinson. Her by together with large poems bears the subject of death. Death is a gateway to the adjacent world. Everyone believes that, Death conquers all”. It is a reality which cannot live denied. Death is definite; at that spot is no escape from it. We may or may non think but it comes definitely at its appointed time.We should non live afraid of it because it is non the end. It is the get-go of novel life. The poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death” also describes the same fact virtually death. The poetess talks virtually expiry together with its gentle nature of its approach. Death is seen non an destination but every bit the get-go of immortality. This verse form also gives symbolic meanings. The children playing inward the basis symbolizes childhood. The plain of gazing grain symbolizes the youth together with the setting Sun presents the symbol of erstwhile age. Ultimately, her imagined funeral journeying reached the grave. It seems every bit swelling of the ground. It is similar a abode whose roof is scarcely visible. It is the house where the poetess is to live buried. After death, inward the adjacent world, the concept of fourth dimension together with infinite vanishes. Many centuries elapses but to the poetess it feels shorter than a day. Now she has guessed that her journeying of life is non towards expiry but it was a journeying towards eternity. Throughout the poem, the poetess’ handling also dash is real polite. The verse form elaborates the subject of death.
LIGHTS OUT
Edward Thomas.
Lights out “is a verse form that views slumber from a real interesting angle. Sleep has a paramount mightiness over all human being s’ passionate interests together with activities, his joys together with sorrows. No 1 tin withstand its lure. All day, from early on morn men pursue diverse activities, goodness or bad but at nighttime autumn they completely relinquish the witting concur upon life. They bring out themselves of a precipitous submerged past times the oblivion of sleep. The authorisation of slumber equalizes all men both who treaded the direct path together with those who tread the crooked path of life. After reading the poem, a sense of gratitude is around for the approbation of sleep. Life is a ceaseless struggle. Man works from dawn to dusk together with keeps himself busy inward the diverse activities of life. He is, at times, successful, but miserably fails at the diverse occasions. He is ordinarily exhausted past times the twenty-four threescore minutes menses long struggle. The tensions of life operate heavily on him. He is completely tired together with worn out. At night, he abandons his work. When asleep, he is forgetful of everything, goodness or bad, happy or unhappy. Sleep works a tonic lawsuit on him. In the morning, he is fresh, prepare to part the activities of life 1 time again. The poet pleads that the slumber is a great gift of God, a approbation on human beings.Sleep sooths together with comforts us past times making us forget everything for the fourth dimension being.Same is the instance of death. It saves us from all mad activities of life together with its worries. The verse form dwells on the mightiness of sleep. Our routine activities, our desires together with ambitions must give way to the concur that slumber has over us. Things that are most dearly cherished, every bit a favorite mass or a loved confront are willing relinquished every bit nosotros bring out ourselves slipping gently into the blessed basis of sleep. It has the equalizing effect. All are bailiwick to its spell saltation power, ---the rich, the poor, the virtuous or the vicious.
THE VANISHING VILLAGE
R.S. Thomas
Thomas is a Welsh poet who was born inward Wales inward 1903.He got his early on didactics at a local schoolhouse together with after on joined a seminary for becoming a priest In the poem, “The vanishing Village”, the poet laments over the rapid reject of the villages. It is said that the basis is turning fast into a Global Village without villages. The unchecked, unabated large scale migration towards cities goes on worldwide. The poet does non similar it. He believes inward the theory of Plato that the hamlet is the basic unit of measurement of the world. In the verse form the poet has projected a gloomy moving-picture demo of a hamlet that is on its way to destruction. There are a few houses inward the village. It has only 1 street that is leading nowhere together with is eaten away past times the tide of greenish grass. It agency that the hamlet is disconnected from the residuum of the world..The hamlet contains the population equal to none, so at that spot is petty action inward it. There is only 1 store together with 1 inn inward the village. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dark domestic dog that is sitting inward the hot Sun together with slap-up its fleas is the only history. The concept of fourth dimension together with infinite is beingness vanished inward the village. The daughter moving from 1 door to some other is a ray of hope. The verse form is based on the Plato s’ theory that the hamlet is the basic unit of measurement of this world. If 1 wants to salve the world, 1 must salve the village. Large scale immigration to the cities must live checked.
WHEN I HAVE FEARS
John Keats
John Keats was born inward 1795 together with died inward 1821.He is 1 of the greatest English linguistic communication romantics poets. His early on verse form including ‘Endymion’ had to confront severe criticism. His 2nd mass appeared inward 1820 together with this contains his best operate including the great ode. The sonnet, “ When I Fears “, is of great significance when nosotros bear inward withdraw heed the fact that Keats died at a real immature historic menses of twenty-six years old. The subject of the sonnets is the fears of the poet that he would move out inward a immature historic menses earlier the fulfillment of his poetic potent9ial.His initiative of all fearfulness is that he may move out soon. The poet was suffering from T.B together with at that fourth dimension it was a real fatal disease. So, his this fearfulness came truthful when he died at the ripe historic menses of 20 six. His 2nd fearfulness was that he volition non move a famous poet inward his life. The reality is totally inward favor of this fearfulness inward the withdraw heed of the poet. When he started writing poetry, he had to confront a severe criticism, so he was non able to larn the expected fame. In instance of his love he remained unsuccessful. He was inward love amongst a beautiful adult woman but his love was 1 sided together with unreflecting every bit that adult woman was inward love amongst some other fellow. Keats was a great lover of beauty. He was of the view, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 matter of beauty is a joy forever,” But inward his life bridge Keats did non relish the gustation of beauty. Rejected from every sphere of life, he is standing solitary on the shore of the basis together with is thinking that love together with fame or zilch inward this world
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KUBLLA KHAN
S.T. Coleridge
Coleridge is a basis famous poet. Just every bit Keats shows his identity inward beauty, Coleridge shows his identity inward supernaturalism. His basis famous poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” together with “Christable” are the best examples of Coleridge s’ supernaturalism. In this poem, he speaks of the grandeur of Kubla Khan s’ palace. The poet takes the flying inward his imagination together with tries to create the palace every bit a rare device. The verse form has been written nether the influence of opium. Under the lawsuit of this medicine he dreamed of the house of Kubla Khan a Mongol emperor In the verse form the poet is non discussing virtually kubla khan but of his palace. Kubla khan ordered to create a palace inward Xanadu where the sacred river Alph flowed. It was a site of superb beauty. It was a house every bit enchanted every bit a house that is haunted past times a adult woman wailing for her demon lover. There was a romantic chasm which went obliquely downwards to the gradient of greenish loma covered amongst cedarn trees. Out of this chasm, at that spot gushed out a great outpouring vaulting out stones amongst water. The river passed through the enchanted solid ground for 5 miles earlier falling into the sea..The palace was built inward the fertile basis of x miles area. The reflection of the domes of the palace floated mid inward the mid of the sacred river. Once the poet saw a maiden who was singing of mountain Abora .She was an Abyssinian girl. The poet was much impressed past times the symphony of her song. The poet desires to revive the vocal of that daughter every bit amongst the aid of that vocal he wants to rebuild the palace of Kubla Khan inward his imagination. In the destination , the poet has labeled Kubla khan every bit a supernatural graphic symbol who forces the seers to unopen their eyes amongst holy dread every bit he has been fed amongst heavenly food.
Poem Snake past times D.H Lawrence
