Name : Huriyah Dzahabiyyah
NIM : 2223180086
Class : 3B
POETRY
1. Find the nature of the poem (Theme, tone, feeling, and intention)
A. Elegy (W.H Auden) – In Memory of W.B Yeast
I
He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
And snow disfigured the public statues;
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
Far from his illness
The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests,
The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays;
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
But for him it was his last afternoon as himself,
An afternoon of nurses and rumours;
The provinces of his body revolted,
The squares of his mind were empty,
Silence invaded the suburbs,
The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers.
Now he is scattered among a hundred cities
And wholly given over to unfamiliar affections,
To find his happiness in another kind of wood
And be punished under a foreign code of conscience.
The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.
But in the importance and noise of to-morrow
When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse,
And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed,
And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom,
A few thousand will think of this day
As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
II
You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:
The parish of rich women, physical decay,
Yourself. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
III
Earth, receive an honoured guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry.
In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
Each sequestered in its hate;
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice;
With the farming of a
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
THEME : Death. After all, its elegy.
TONE :
1. (Tone : Sad and gloomy)
He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
But for him it was his last afternoon as himself,
2. (Tone : Dissapointed and assertive)
You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
3. (Tone : Grateful and passionate)
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
FEELING :
Part 1 : Feeling deep and gloomy. We can also sense Auden making
broader point about immortality of poets. They survive or don’t survive
depending on who reads them.
Part 2 : Auden felt disappointment about poetry that does not change
anything, including death, even though he thinks poetry can survive and
remain a part of history itself.
Part 3 : A feeling of appreciation and grateful for the poet's work
because tears will be healed by poetry from the deceased.
INTENTION : Poetry needs to teach humankind to rejoice and to endure hideous times of
life. Poets also must create great eternal art from disasters of their times.
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
THEME : Nature and vivid imagery.
TONE : Quiet and contemplate.
FEELING : The feeling of poem is quiet that give calm and isolated.
INTENTION : We must to spread the love everyday, everytime, everwhere.
C. Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
THEME : Vanity / arrogance.
TONE : Ironic solemnity.
FEELING : Desolation, emptiness, futility of kind of tyrannous greatness Ozymandias
pursued.
INTENTION: We must remember that pride will come before it falls and there is no power
to conquer nature, so we should not be arrogant because it is of no use.
2. Find Method of Writing ( Rhythm & rhyme, imagery, the concrete word, diction,
figures of speech)
A. Spring (William Shakespreare)
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When dai-sies pied, and vio-lets blue, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And la-dy-smocks all sil-ver-white, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And cuc-koo-buds of yel-low hue A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Do paint the mea-dows with de-light, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
The cuc-koo then, on ev-ery tree, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Mocks mar-ried men, for thus sings he: B
u / : 2 metrical feet = Iambic Dimeter (unstressed-stressed)
'Cuc-koo!
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Cuc-koo, cuc-koo!' O word of fear, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Un-pleas-ing to a mar-ried ear. B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When shep-herds pipe on oa-ten straws, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And mer-ry larks are plough-men's clocks, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When tur-tles tread, and rooks, and daws, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And mai-dens bleach their sum-mer smocks, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
The cuc-koo then, on ev-ery tree, C
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Mocks mar-ried men, for thus sings he: C
u / : 2 metrical feet = Iambic Dimeter (unstressed-stressed)
'Cuc-koo! A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Cuc-koo, cuc-koo!' O word of fear, D
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Un-pleas-ing to a mar-ried ear. D
RHYTHM (meter): unstressed – stressed (Iambic tetrameter and Iambic dimeter)
RHYME : Rhyme scheme (ABABCCADD)
IMAGERY : Natural, Feminine, Nature Imagery. (visual, audiotory, kinesthetic)
CONCRETE WORD : Cuckoo bird, spring, married ear, lady smocks.
DICTION :
Line 1 : Give us bunch of floral symbols for innocence, virtue, and loyalty.
Cuckoo bird : the married men how to ‘cuckoo’ those man are.
Flowers : rebirth and springtime like beauty and femininity.
Daises : signaling spring arrival, purity, innocence, virtue.
Violet : women’s “blue” hue like our bestfriend, virtuousness, and loyalty.
Line 2 :
Lady smocks : lady in this flower’s name refers to connection between women and
flowers. It also helps that there’s reference to maidens and “their summer smocks”.
Now, we have subtle connection between flowers, ladies, and adultery.
Line 3 :
Cuckoo-buds : the last flowers in this poem that refers to cuckoo-buds makes that
cuckoo-cuckold connection even more obvious.
Yellow hue : It has mostly negative association including deception or disgrace. That
field of yellow cuckoo-buds like reflection of disgrace felt by all those married men
who fear they are cuckold.
Line 5-6 and 14-18 :
Cuckoo : sounds like cuckold that old fashioned term for guy with wife who isn’t
really into monogamy thing. So wheneve married guys see/hear one of these birds
makes them contemplate the unsavory, embarrassing prospect of being a cuckold.
Line 10-11 : Connection between man and natural.
Marry larks : making some music of their own. These little guys are notorious for
singing with sunrise. Conlusion, the men are mirroring birds with the songs they’re
piping and birds are mirroring clocks of human world.
Line 12-13 :
Turles, rooks, and daws (names of bird) : all of the bird are treading.
Tread : describe act of birds mating.
Bleach their summer smocks : when put together with previous line, we got that
when birds start mating, young women start dressing to impress.
FIGURE OF SPEECH : Metaphors, irony, and symbolism
B. Winter (William Shakespeare)
u /u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When i-ci-cles hang by the wall A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And Dick the she-pherd blows his nail B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And Tom bears logs in-to the hall, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And milk comes fro-zen home in pail, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When Blood is nipped and ways be foul, C
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Then night-ly sings the sta-ring owl, C
u / : 2 metrical feet = Iambic Dimeter (unstressed-stressed)
Tu-who; D
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Tu-whit, tu-who: a mer-ry note, F
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
While grea-sy Joan doth keel the pot. F
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When all a-loud the wind doth blow, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And cou-ghing drowns the par-son's saw, B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And birds sit broo-ding in the snow, A
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
And Ma-rian's nose looks red and raw B
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
When roas-ted crabs hiss in the bowl, C
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Then night-ly sings the sta-ring owl, C
u / : 2 metrical feet = Iambic Dimeter (unstressed-stressed)
Tu-who; D
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
Tu-whit, tu-who: a mer-ry note, F
u / u / u / u / : 4 feet = Iambic Tetrameter (unstressed-stressed)
While grea-sy Joan doth keel the pot. F
RHYTHM (meter): unstressed-stressed (Iambic tetrameter and Iambic dimeter)
RHYME : Rhyme schme (ABABCCDFF)
IMAGERY : Season imagery (hearing, visual)
CONCRETE WORD : Winter; Crabs ; Tu-with to-who, song that owl’s singing everynight
and its scary sound ; Merry not, sound of owl is very ugly and scary but he found it happy
because its only sound he could hear at night in th winter ; Red and row, because of very cold
weather and sickness.
DICTION :
Winter : associated with something negative like discontent.
Icicle : thin point stick of ice that hangs down from something such as roof.
Log : peace of cut trees
Pail : bucket
Nightly : every night
Nipped : frozen
Foul : disgusting, very ugly
Brood : to think sadly
Hiss : sound
Saw : tool with sharp points
Parson : man of the church
Keel : cooling
Merry : happy
Blow : to remove
Crabs : a wild fruit
FIGURE OF SPEECH : Irony and metaphors
