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An analysis of poem Leisure by W.H Davies
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Leisure
By William Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Theme:
The poem "Leisure" has been composed by an American poet William Davies. As the title of the poem suggests, it is about the availability of time for enjoying various delights oflife. These may range from the most ordinary every day pleasure to the extraordinary events. The poet is expressing over the rush and hurried manner in which we spend our lives. We deprive ourselves ofthe richness and diversity of life. The poet believes that life must be enjoyed in a casual leisurely manner. He thinks that we should spend our free time enjoying and appreciating the beauty of nature. We should find time to stand under the trees and look at beautiful objects of nature as sheep and cows do. While passing through the woods, we must pause to see the squirrels busy in hiding their nuts in the grass. We should also stop by streams of clear water glittering like skies at night. We must also find time to see the beautiful glance of a maiden and admire the skill of her dancing feet. We should not miss the beautiful smile playing at her face. In this way we can fill our lives with happiness. The poet expresses his grief at the fact that modern rush of life has deprived us of many commonplace pleasures. We run around after our material pursuits, so crazily that we get no time to spend in a relaxed manner. He warns us if our life remains full of worries and problems with no opportunity to enjoy its simple pleasures, it will be very miserable life.
Phonological features:
Rhyme scheme in the poem:
End rhyme in the first couplet is “aa”
End rhyme in the second couplet is “bb”
End rhyme in the third couplet is “cc”
End rhyme in the fourth couplet is “dd”
End rhyme in the fifth couplet is “ee”
End rhyme in the sixth couplet is “ff”
End rhyme in the seventh couplet is “aa”
Rhyme scheme in the poem is as follows:
1. care, stare
2. boughs, cows
3. pass, grass
4. daylight, night
5. glance, dance
6. can, began
7. care, stare
Alliteration:
Stand, stare in line “2”
Beneath, boughs in line “3”
Stare, sheep in line “4”
When, woods, we in line “5”
Streams, stars, skies in line “8”
Her, how in line “10”
Enrich, eyes in line “12”
Repetition:
In this poem, the poet repeats “no time to” 7 times in the whole poem. This repetition has shown that poet is strongly criticizing new generation that they have no time to enjoy the beauty of life, nature and usual phenomenon of daily routine.
Graphology: Graphology refers to the whole writing system: punctuation and paragraphing as well as spacing.
Graphological Feature: In this poem poet uses full stop (.) seven times at the end of all couplets. Poet uses comas (,) 10times and also uses apostrophe (‘) in fifth couplet.
Language and Style:
Personification:
In this poem we see that the word 'Beauty' is written using a capital 'B' - this means that there is more to it. Here the abstract concept- beauty of nature is almost given almost human-like qualities. When such an abstract idea like nature is given human qualities it is referred to as 'personification'. In this poem we can see the beauty of nature in many forms - i.e. you can see the "mouth", the smile in her eyes, and can "watch" her feet and see them "dance".
Imagery:
When the poet uses language to describe something that touches our five senses we call it imagery. In this poem we see a lot of examples of visual imagery.
Example:
Someone standing beneath the bough (line 1, couplet 2)
cows and sheep grazing and enjoying the beauty of nature around them (line 2, couplet 2)
Squirrels running around in the woods hiding their nuts in the grass (couplet 3)
Semantic features:
Simile:
Poet uses simile in the 4th line of the poem (And stare as long as sheep or cows.)
And in the 8th line as well (Streams full of stars, like skies at night.)
Lexical features:
Nouns Verbs Adverbs Adjectives
Life Care Beneath Full
Time Stand When broad
boughs Stare Where Poor
Sheep See
Cows Pass
Woods Hide
Squirrels Turn
Nuts Glance
Grass Watch
Stream Dance
Stars Wait
Skies Enrich
Night Smile
Feet
Mouth
Eyes
Findings of poem:
William Henry Davies uses very simple language in his poem. That’s why it is easily understandable to everyone. With the use of rhyme scheme, alliteration and repetition, he makes his poem straightforwardly logical. He raises a very good point and also criticize us that we have no time for our own self and the problems of our life makes our life much difficult. That’s why we are unable to enjoy the beauty of life.
Conclusion:The choice of words by the writer or the poet plays a very important role in meaning making. It helps the reader to understand the message the poet is trying to pass on. Stylistics, by this analysis has shown that there is a distinction between poetic and non- poetic language.
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Leisure
By William Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Theme:
The poem "Leisure" has been composed by an American poet William Davies. As the title of the poem suggests, it is about the availability of time for enjoying various delights oflife. These may range from the most ordinary every day pleasure to the extraordinary events. The poet is expressing over the rush and hurried manner in which we spend our lives. We deprive ourselves ofthe richness and diversity of life. The poet believes that life must be enjoyed in a casual leisurely manner. He thinks that we should spend our free time enjoying and appreciating the beauty of nature. We should find time to stand under the trees and look at beautiful objects of nature as sheep and cows do. While passing through the woods, we must pause to see the squirrels busy in hiding their nuts in the grass. We should also stop by streams of clear water glittering like skies at night. We must also find time to see the beautiful glance of a maiden and admire the skill of her dancing feet. We should not miss the beautiful smile playing at her face. In this way we can fill our lives with happiness. The poet expresses his grief at the fact that modern rush of life has deprived us of many commonplace pleasures. We run around after our material pursuits, so crazily that we get no time to spend in a relaxed manner. He warns us if our life remains full of worries and problems with no opportunity to enjoy its simple pleasures, it will be very miserable life.
Phonological features:
Rhyme scheme in the poem:
End rhyme in the first couplet is “aa”
End rhyme in the second couplet is “bb”
End rhyme in the third couplet is “cc”
End rhyme in the fourth couplet is “dd”
End rhyme in the fifth couplet is “ee”
End rhyme in the sixth couplet is “ff”
End rhyme in the seventh couplet is “aa”
Rhyme scheme in the poem is as follows:
1. care, stare
2. boughs, cows
3. pass, grass
4. daylight, night
5. glance, dance
6. can, began
7. care, stare
Alliteration:
Stand, stare in line “2”
Beneath, boughs in line “3”
Stare, sheep in line “4”
When, woods, we in line “5”
Streams, stars, skies in line “8”
Her, how in line “10”
Enrich, eyes in line “12”
Repetition:
In this poem, the poet repeats “no time to” 7 times in the whole poem. This repetition has shown that poet is strongly criticizing new generation that they have no time to enjoy the beauty of life, nature and usual phenomenon of daily routine.
Graphology: Graphology refers to the whole writing system: punctuation and paragraphing as well as spacing.
Graphological Feature: In this poem poet uses full stop (.) seven times at the end of all couplets. Poet uses comas (,) 10times and also uses apostrophe (‘) in fifth couplet.
Language and Style:
Personification:
In this poem we see that the word 'Beauty' is written using a capital 'B' - this means that there is more to it. Here the abstract concept- beauty of nature is almost given almost human-like qualities. When such an abstract idea like nature is given human qualities it is referred to as 'personification'. In this poem we can see the beauty of nature in many forms - i.e. you can see the "mouth", the smile in her eyes, and can "watch" her feet and see them "dance".
Imagery:
When the poet uses language to describe something that touches our five senses we call it imagery. In this poem we see a lot of examples of visual imagery.
Example:
Someone standing beneath the bough (line 1, couplet 2)
cows and sheep grazing and enjoying the beauty of nature around them (line 2, couplet 2)
Squirrels running around in the woods hiding their nuts in the grass (couplet 3)
Semantic features:
Simile:
Poet uses simile in the 4th line of the poem (And stare as long as sheep or cows.)
And in the 8th line as well (Streams full of stars, like skies at night.)
Lexical features:
Nouns Verbs Adverbs Adjectives
Life Care Beneath Full
Time Stand When broad
boughs Stare Where Poor
Sheep See
Cows Pass
Woods Hide
Squirrels Turn
Nuts Glance
Grass Watch
Stream Dance
Stars Wait
Skies Enrich
Night Smile
Feet
Mouth
Eyes
Findings of poem:
William Henry Davies uses very simple language in his poem. That’s why it is easily understandable to everyone. With the use of rhyme scheme, alliteration and repetition, he makes his poem straightforwardly logical. He raises a very good point and also criticize us that we have no time for our own self and the problems of our life makes our life much difficult. That’s why we are unable to enjoy the beauty of life.
Conclusion:The choice of words by the writer or the poet plays a very important role in meaning making. It helps the reader to understand the message the poet is trying to pass on. Stylistics, by this analysis has shown that there is a distinction between poetic and non- poetic language.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
An analysis of Langston Hughes’s Thank You M’am
An analysis of
Langston Hughes’s Thank You M’am
By NoumanAyub…
Introduction
Thank You M’am,is a very
interesting moral story written by Langston Hughes. Everyone makes mistakes in his/her life but
there are very rare people who learn from their own mistakes. The story features two characters; Roger and Mrs. Luella
Bates Washington Jones.
They meet when Roger attempts to steal her
purse as she is walking home late at night. Roger loses his balance, and Mrs.
Jones, who seems to be a substantial woman, first kicks him in the behind as he
is sprawled on the sidewalk, and then hauls him up and shakes him. She has the
boy pick up her purse, and begins to dress him down. Then the story takes a
turn,
"Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a
great mind to wash your face for you. Ain't you got nobody home to tell you to
wash your face?"
"No'm," said the boy.
"Then it will get washed this
evening," said the large woman starting up the street, dragging the
frightened boy behind her.
And with those simple lines, Hughes affects a
magical transformation turning a tough old black woman into everyone's mother
and a young hoodlum into everyone's friend, brother or son. By explaining the
crime -- it's out of a child's impoverished necessity -- and humanizing the
characters, he makes us understand that Roger is not a bad kid as much as he is
a kid trapped in difficult circumstances.
After a bit more physical and verbal
trouncing, Mrs. Jones' course of action is clear:
"But you put yourself in contact with
me," said the woman. "If you think that that contact is not going to
last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir,
you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones."
Sweat popped out on the boy's face and he
began to struggle.
Mrs. Jones puts the boy in a half-nelson and
drags him up the street and into her house where the "tough love"
lightens up on the toughness and starts to load up a bit on the love. She feeds
him, lectures him gently, and gives him the money he was attempting to steal so
that he may buy the blue suede shoes that he needs.
Then the story concludes:
She led him down the hall to the front door
and opened it. "Goodnight! Behave yourself, boy!" she said, looking
out into the street.
The boy wanted to say something else other
than, "Thank you, ma'am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but
although his lips moved, he couldn't even say that as he turned at the foot of
the barren stoop and looked back at the large woman in the door. Then she shut
the door.
Theme:
Theme of the story is, everyone makes many
mistakes in his/her life and what we do with our mistakes either learning from
them or continuing to make them. That is on us. And that thing makes an
individual unique.
Characters:
There are two main characters.
1.
Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a static character who is
a large African-American woman lives in somewhere in America. She lives in an
apartment. She is a kind, generous and forgiving and works at hair saloon.
Roger, a dynamic character. Roger is
protagonist. He has no family. He has wearing tennis shoes but not dressed
well. Not presentable according to Mrs. Jones. He looked as he were fourteen or
fifteen.
Narrator:
This story is written in third-person
narrative. And narrator in this story is Omniscient.
Narrative level:
Narrative level of this story is
“Extradiegetic” because narrator is not the part of the story.
Kind of Narration:
As we can se that story is written in a past
event and past events are recounted in the Ulterior narration. So the kind of
narration in this story is “Ulterior
Narration.”
Conflict:
The conflict in the story is person vs.
self-conflict. It is between Roger and himself. Roger, in the beginning of the
story urgue to steel a woman’s purse to be able to buy something for himself.
As the story processes, he realizes from Mrs. Luella Jones that stealing is not
good.
Plot:
Plot of the story is linear. Setting: Eleven o’clock at night on a deserted dark street and the rooming
house in which Mrs. Luella Jones lives.
Rising action:
Mrs. Jones makes the boy pick up the purse.
She tells him that he will remember Mrs. Jones
after she is done with him. She puts him in a half-nelson and continues to drag
him to her house.
Tells him to clean his face off with rag and
that she is going to feed him.
“The water dripping from his face, the boy
looked at her.”
Climax: The climax of the story is when Roger has a chance to run from
her apartment of Mrs. Jones but he doesn’t.” The door was open. He could make a
dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run”
Falling action:
Mrs. Jones feed the boy. She tells him about
her job at a hotel beauty-shop. Also tells him that she herself has made many
mistakes.
Conclusion:
Thank You M’am is an interesting moral story by third person extradiegetic
narrator who teaches us to be generous and forgiving for human beings. Narrator
gives us an important lesson through his writing thateveryone makes mistakes in
his/her life and we also made many mistakes in our life. So we should be kind
in with others.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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Stylistical analysis of W.H Davies' "leisure"
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Leisure
By William Henry Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Theme:
The poem "Leisure" has been composed by
an American poet William Davies. As the title of the poem suggests, it is about
the availability of time for enjoying various delights oflife. These may range
from the most ordinary every day pleasure to the extraordinary events. The poet
is expressing over the rush and hurried manner in which we spend our lives. We
deprive ourselves ofthe richness and diversity of life. The poet believes that
life must be enjoyed in a casual leisurely manner. He thinks that we should
spend our free time enjoying and appreciating the beauty of nature. We should
find time to stand under the trees and look at beautiful objects of nature as
sheep and cows do. While passing through the woods, we must pause to see the
squirrels busy in hiding their nuts in the grass. We should also stop by
streams of clear water glittering like skies at night. We must also find time
to see the beautiful glance of a maiden and admire the skill of her dancing
feet. We should not miss the beautiful smile playing at her face. In this way
we can fill our lives with happiness. The poet expresses his grief at the fact
that modern rush of life has deprived us of many commonplace pleasures. We run
around after our material pursuits, so crazily that we get no time to spend in
a relaxed manner. He warns us if our life remains full of worries and problems
with no opportunity to enjoy its simple pleasures, it will be very miserable
life.
Phonological features:
Rhyme scheme in the poem:
End
rhyme in the first couplet is “aa”
End
rhyme in the second couplet is “bb”
End
rhyme in the third couplet is “cc”
End
rhyme in the fourth couplet is “dd”
End
rhyme in the fifth couplet is “ee”
End
rhyme in the sixth couplet is “ff”
End
rhyme in the seventh couplet is “aa”
Rhyme scheme in the poem is as follows:
1. care, stare
2. boughs, cows
3. pass, grass
4. daylight, night
5. glance, dance
6. can, began
7. care, stare
Alliteration:
Stand, stare in line “2”
Beneath, boughs in line “3”
Stare, sheep in line “4”
When, woods, we in line “5”
Streams, stars, skies in line “8”
Her, how in line “10”
Enrich, eyes in line “12”
Repetition:
In this poem, the poet repeats “no time to” 7 times in
the whole poem. This repetition has shown that poet is strongly criticizing new
generation that they have no time to enjoy the beauty of life, nature and usual
phenomenon of daily routine.
Graphology: Graphology refers to the whole writing system:
punctuation and paragraphing as well as spacing.
Graphological Feature: In this poem poet uses full stop (.) seven
times at the end of all couplets. Poet uses comas (,) 10times and also uses
apostrophe (‘) in fifth couplet.
Language and Style:
Personification:
In this poem we see that the word
'Beauty' is written using a capital 'B' - this means that there is more to it.
Here the abstract concept- beauty of nature is almost given almost
human-like qualities. When such an abstract idea like nature is given
human qualities it is referred to as 'personification'. In this poem we can see
the beauty of nature in many forms - i.e. you can see the "mouth",
the smile in her eyes, and can "watch" her feet and see them
"dance".
Imagery:
When the poet uses language to describe
something that touches our five senses we call it imagery. In this poem we see
a lot of examples of visual imagery.
Example:
Someone standing beneath the bough
(line 1, couplet 2)
cows and sheep grazing and enjoying the
beauty of nature around them (line 2, couplet 2)
Squirrels running around in the woods hiding
their nuts in the grass (couplet 3)
Semantic features:
Simile:
Poet uses simile in the 4th line of the poem (And
stare as long as sheep or cows.)
And in the 8th
line as well (Streams full of stars, like skies at night.)
Lexical features:
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Adverbs
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Adjectives
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Life
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Care
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Beneath
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Full
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Time
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Stand
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When
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broad
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boughs
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Stare
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Where
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Poor
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Sheep
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See
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Cows
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Pass
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Woods
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Hide
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Squirrels
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Turn
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Nuts
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Glance
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Grass
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Watch
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Stream
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Dance
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Stars
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Wait
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Skies
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Enrich
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Night
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Smile
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Feet
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Mouth
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Eyes
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Findings of poem:
William Henry Davies uses very simple language in his
poem. That’s why it is easily understandable to everyone. With the use of rhyme
scheme, alliteration and repetition, he makes his poem straightforwardly logical.
He raises a very good point and also criticize us that we have no time for our
own self and the problems of our life makes our life much difficult. That’s why
we are unable to enjoy the beauty of life.
Conclusion:The choice of words by the writer or the poet
plays a very important role in meaning making. It helps the reader to
understand the message the poet is trying to pass on. Stylistics, by this
analysis has shown that there is a distinction between poetic and non- poetic
language as a means of defining literature.
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