Hello readers here I am sharing my views on various poems. which is part of my classroom activity.
1) 'The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme
Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,
In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
Now see I
That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy.
Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.In this poem writer recollecting his past time. In which he had gold heels on the hard pavement. He tries to say that now he do not has that blanket of pleasure,luxuries so he request to God to give a blanket of stars. But the blanket of God is in poor condition, but though there is a need of blanket suggest spirituality.
2.) ‘The
Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme
Darkness
I
stop to watch a star shine
in
the boghole -
A
star no longer, but a silver
light.
I
look at it and pass on.
Word "Darkness" itself describe night, sadness also
connect with beauty of night, beauty of moon. It also
describes peace of mind. Poet is not able to see stars; but
there is "a silver ribbon of light" and poet looked it at that
there is no stars but light is still be there. So here poet
describe the beauty of stars and night.
3.)
'Image' - Edward Storer
Forsaken
lovers,
Burning
to a chaste white moon
Upon
strange Pyres of loneliness and
drought
The title suggest itself the image of Victorian age.
Poem is depiction of forsaken lover is described.
The
poem as per its title “Image” presents an image of the
modern
people and their way of living, they requires purity
like moon.
4.)
"In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound
The
apparition of these faces in the Crowd;
Petals
on a wet, black bough
In this poem poet compares faces of people which he
found in crowd with the "petals on a wet, black bough."
5.)
'The Pool' - Hilda Doolittle
Are
you alive?
I
touch you
You
quiver trembling like a sea-fish
I
cover you with my net
What
are you- banded one?
Here poet says about overpowering or colonizing
someone. It is not alive because now it is there the net of
somebody fish after going in the end cannot survive for
longer.
6.)
"Insouciance" – Richard Aldington
In
and out of the dreary trenches
Trudging
cheerily under the stars
I
make for myself little poems
Delicate
as a flock of doves
They
fly away like white-winged
Doves.
His poem's comparison is with love. Here the words
"Trudging" and "Cheerily" give the image of life where we
are doing many things unwilling.
7.)
Morning at the Window - T. S. Eliot
They
are rattling breakfast plates in basement
kitchens,
And
along the trampled edges of the street
I
am aware of the damp souls of housemaid
Sprouting
despondentlyat area gates.
The
brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted
faces from the bottom of the street,
And
tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An
aimless smile that hovers in the air
And
vanishes along the level of the roofs.
The whole poem has negative words. The word
"Ratting" means vibrating shaking plates. Damp means in
low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
8.)
The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams
so
much depends
upon
a
red wheel
barrow
glazed
with rain
water
beside
the white
chicken.
Red wheel, white chicken these all are symbols
and through these poet try to say about human beings. It
means be connected with white people and their life.
9.)
Anecdote of the Jar- Wallace Stevens
I
placed a jar in Tennessee,
And
round it was, upon a hill.
It
made the slovenly wilderness
Surround
that hill.
The
wilderness rose up to it,
And
sprawled around, no longer wild.
The
jar was round upon the ground
And
tall and of a port in air.
It
took dominion everywhere.
The
jar was gray and bare.
It
did not give of bird or bush,
Like
nothing else in Tennessee.
Comparison between artificiality and natural
things.Good example of artificiality and natural thing is fast
food and Natural home made food like. Here we can say
that
we equally live both the life. But now a days we all are
more
attracted to artificial things. which is very harmful for us.So
its better to be natural rather than artificial.
10.)
‘l (a‘-E. E. Cummings
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
This poem reflects the modern time people were
people living in one country together like leafs live on a tree
but when they fall it is only their fall. There was not strong
relation between them. One question pops up in my mind
after reading this poem that Can we trust people or not.
