RESPECTED SIR,
Interpretation
of ten short poems
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.
--
Modernist literature at first seems difficult to understand. In this
poem, Hulme is trying to escape from earthly realities and wants
himself to be wined up with comfortable lies.
2.) ‘The
Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme
Darkness
I
stop to watch a star shine
in
the boghole -
A
star no longer, but a silver
ribbon
of light.
I
look at it and pass on.
The
poet express about loneliness or emptiness.when he passes from the
street he found a star but when he goes near ,it is not star but a
silver ribbon.Star is a symbol of brightness or hope but the poet can
not see it for long time.
3.)
'Image' - Edward Storer
Forsaken
lovers,
Burning
to a chaste white moon
Upon
strange Pyres of loneliness and
drought
The
poem as per its title “Image” presents an image of the modern
people and their way of living, they requires purity like moon. They
all are burning with various diseases like sexual perversion and
nothingness which T. S. Eliot has also presented in The Waste Land
and in these four lines this image of loneliness of modern era is
presented.
4.)
"In a station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound
The
apparition of these faces in the Crowd;
Petals
on a wet, black bough
As
the petals on black bough is not live even it is wet. The same
situation is happening with all men. Who are habituated to work daily
without any feeling or expression. Crowd has no face of feeling that
seems to be true here
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?
As
a bi-sexual person, Doolittle faced just such a situation. She played
many roles; but, ultimately, she became a many faceted person.
Sometimes, we have difficulty, especially as adolescents,
understanding our feelings. We do not know what our emotions mean.
We question who we are and what we want from life. It might be
satisfying to have someone pull us close and help us to understand as
the poet says in the last line
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.
In
this poem, poet compares his poems with dove. It flies far away from
himself and at last, it becomes difficult to say that it was mine.
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.
Morning
at the window - morning at the window signs towards the way of living
without end , purpose ,if you try to pass your life then it can't
provide us that real joy of life that actually we have to. -
Ethusiasm only has chances to wait for death with new spirit within.
8.)
The Red Wheelbarrow -William Carlos Williams
so
much depends
upon
a
red wheel
barrow
glazed
with rain
water
beside
the white
chicken.
Here
we can say that poet used the word “wheel”, “rain”, “water”
and “white chicken”. The dictionary meaning of “wheel borrows”
is “a small, one wheeled cart with handles at one end for
transporting small loads. It Is like “bullock cart” but bullock
cart is pushed by bull but wheel borrow may be pushed by man for
transporting little goods and luggage's. Here we can see that the
poet uses “chicken” which is the younger one of hen/cock. So we
can say that it is a poem about the sacrifice of a younger one in
this modern age.
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.
Through
this poem we can understand that how the life
becomes
mixer of both the things. And indirectly we can
say
it is hybridization. As same in our country we are eating both the
things
pizza as well as rotala.
10.)
‘l (a‘-E. E. Cummings
l(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
Here
poet discussed about the state “Tennessee” in United States of
America. In this poem poet placed a jar on the hill. After some time
jar at hill owns the place slowly and steadily. Through this line
poet wants to say that how an outsider comes as different place and
owns that place or we can say that an outsider made.
