'Poetry can bring to life experiences and ideas Essay\r'

'Q. â€Å"poesy can bring to life effs and ideas which ar otherwise difficult for us to understand what is your response to this peck?”\r\nMy personal response of poetry being the â€Å" flying field and tierulae”, for individuals helping them to understand complicated life matters, which are difficult for us to understand is shown by analyze the two metrical compositions ‘London’ by William Blake and ‘Prayer onwards kind’ by Louis MacNeice.\r\nWe can begin to upon) the authors individual thoughts and feelings by analysing them through our own reading of run-in, form and structure of the metrical composition.\r\nâ€Å"Prayer before birth” is written in 1944 which is at the destruction of the routine domain war. This poem resounds the innocence of a claw in the mothers womb being brought into a sphere of capture and temptation. It is quite ironic to have a an unborn baby â€Å"k in a flashing” of the outside r eality and experiences as of yet not being born. much alone over MacNeice uses foxy imagery\r\nâ€Å"…Let not the parasitical bat or the rat or the stoat or the club †footed ghoul come dear(p) me.”\r\nThis put ons us to a greater extent of an image of how both innocence and experience differ from one another. This poem is a prayer which is to protect the innocence of the unborn nipper †to nurture them constructively against the pressures they might experience in the twentieth century.\r\nThe way that MacNeice has constructed the poem is by conologic tout ensembley tone oddment through life experiences as we keep on reading. This is taken from the second stanza by asking deity to not allow race to influence him into naughtily doings, where here he has a choice from advance(prenominal) on in life to make the rightfield decisions and choose the right pathway, however if he doesn’t this is related to the seventh stanza where his doings now wre stle into something which he has no control over and that it is â€Å"leathal mechanisation”, due to the experience he is accustomed to.\r\n heretofore the structure of the poem visually illustrates the beginning to the ending of his â€Å"life” as each stanza gets narrower. But by looking at the seventh Stanza, also its the language of the poem becoming quicker,as we proceed toward the end of the poem altogether\r\nâ€Å"…here and thither or hither and thither..”\r\nThis in comparison to the poem ‘London’ by Wiliam Blake. Where by the poem is of the Romanics which tends to attack the form of experience as it is alongside innocence due to disposition not nurture.\r\nA poem of social protest, against the ugly of all who live in a world such as this. Written in 1789 (during the French revolution, and also the british industrial revolution).\r\nIt’s slightly misery and human despair, the â€Å"mind forg’d manacles” of fal loff imprisoning race. The rapidly indutrialising economy and society corrupt and poisin all those who live in it.\r\nThis poem is about how mountain whitethorn disfunctionally go through experience and end up passing their knowledge through to the succeeding(prenominal) artless generation.\r\nBlake tends to use the imagery of cjildren a hook as they symbolise honor and power. His argument is that if childhood is reacked then so is the the adult that they become. Throught either percentage point of his poem he uses a more innocent imagery of a child from â€Å"infant” to â€Å" new-fashioned born infant”. Also he uses clever imagery of purity contrasted against impurity.\r\nQuite a a couple of(prenominal) oximorons are employ to contast imagery in the poem. screening how the worldof experience can quickly corruptand destroy the innocence.\r\nâ€Å"… both bneediness’ning Church appals;”\r\nâ€Å"Black’ning” meaning pestilen tial metaphorically and also literally. This also shows the church which is appuled by the conditions nevertheless turns a blind eye, â€Å"black’ning” is contrasted with purity which is supposed to be of the church , but the chuch is blackned by turning a blind eye. This imagery is used to show the state of human nature which people usually turn a blind eye.\r\nâ€Å"…How the recent Harlot’s curse”\r\nBlake uses his imagery of a young prosititute, which here is also contrasted with innocence which is corrupted.\r\nâ€Å"…chimey-sweepers word” is exploiting innocence. Becoming black,dark and tained. Also the dying breath of the solider,which is infact the weather dying breath of the solider, this is about ordinary people killing ordinary people for causes which may not benefit them,thihs maybe could be connected to revolution. and so the running of blood down spotlight walls,shows the guilt trip on the monarchy.\r\nâ€Å"†¦Runs in blood down place walls”\r\nLondon is about how the controlling nature takes over innocence and the experience is now of automation. He shows this in the first stanza where theart of mapping, controlling, and resitricting are contrasted against the â€Å"flow” of the Thames.\r\nNot a poem of observed factual detail but Blake’s perception of London, he uses the traditional form of alternate rhyming eminences to imitate the repititive predictability of the circle of suffering. Blake has experience of London so he is able to reflect back from when he was an innocent child to now of what he holds the knowledge of experience. This is shown in the first line of the poem:\r\nâ€Å"…I wander thro’ each conduct’d street,”\r\nThe lyrical quality is quite simplistic it is not a performance based poem. initial rhyme is used to getto the imagery Blake is trying to create of London. The manner of speaking â€Å"weakness,” and â₠¬Å"Woe” makes the poem sound of a sapless minded and gives the feeling of a spiritual lack of strengh of character.\r\nIn the second stanza â€Å"every” is used to add imact which is used constanmtly through the first, second and third lines.\r\nThe poem it self is quite short and in every stanza thereis four lines, the imagery is also quite bulletproof in the short space Blake has used to give us an idea of what he feels London is all about. This could be due to having to get his point crosswise to people\r\nBoth these poems, in my opinion, share feelings of continue and disgust for experience. If i had to pick which one I prefered I would choose the Blake poem. This is because the meaning of the words is more clearcut. I accept that the point of the MacNeice poem may be to leave it up to the reader to go under whether or not the poem is sarcastic or not.\r\nBut I dont consider this device to be particularly effective ; thought provoking maybe but not effective. Th e Blake poem is also more emotionally charged and melodramatic it is almost scarey as the poem relates to London which is a virtuous 10-15 miles away and sadly corruption and sexually transfer diseases are still relevant themes today.\r\n'