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3 The Inchcape Rock (Appreciation)

The famous ballad “The Inchcape Rock” is written by the renowned English poet Robert Southey. The
basic theme of the poem is that those who do bad things will ultimately be punished accordingly and
poetic justice was done.

This is the ballad of seventeen stanzas of four lines each with the regular rhyming couplet with the
rhyme scheme, aabb. As the poem has four lines stanzas which is also known as quatrains. The present
poem is about an attempt by the Abbot of Aberbrothok to install the warning bell 🔔 on Inchcape which
was removed by a pirate, Ralph. The pirates met with an accident on the same rock on his return
journey. Poet tells the above story in the narrative style. Though the language looks simple, it has many
old English words. The poet has used various imageries and symbols to create the live beautiful mental
picture before the eyes of the readers. The poet also enriched the beauty of the poem with various
figures of speech. Prominent figures of speech in the poem are personification, alliteration, repetition,
Inversion, simile, metaphor apostrophe and Onomatopoeia.

The poem, The Inchcape Rock, teaches a moral lesson- “As you sow, so shall you reap.” The poem
proves the principle that crime get its own punishment. I like the poem very much as it depicts the
phenomenal picture before our eyes at the same time it conveyed the ultimate truth of life, "If we have
done something bad with someone we have to face the same bad situation” it's rightly said, "As you sow
so shall you reap.”

The poem, 'Have You Earned Your Tomorrow' Is the inspirational poem of the well known British
American poet Edger Guest. The poet used to write in a very simple language in optimistic way. That's
why he is known as Peoples' Poet. The similar simplicity and optimism can be seen in the present poem.
The poem is in a question form, the poet has been asking the questions to the readers. It is quatrains as
it has four line stanza structure. The poem has four stanzas of four lines each with the regular rhyme
scheme. The first line rhymes with the second and third line with the fourth. Hence the rhyme scheme
of the poem is aabb, ccaa, ddee, ffaa. The speciality of the poem is that it has eleven questions in the
poem, hence the prominent figure of speech in the poem is Interrogation. There is one more noticeable
figure of speech in the poem that is Alliteration.

2.5 Father Returning Home (Appreciation)

Father Returning Home’ is the famous poem by Dilip Chitre, taken from 'Traveling in the cage'. He is
known as bilingual poet. He has translated ‘the popular Marathi Abhangas (Spiritual Poem) 'Says Tuka'
into English. He received the Prestigious Sahitya Akadami Award for his remarkable contribution in
poetry as well as in Translation. The present is an autobiographical poem where the poet shows the
complete solitude and lethargic life of an old man in the modern society by depicting a picture of his
own father returning home from work. Thus the main theme of the poem is "Man's Isolation from
materialistic man made World". The poet expressed his feelings for his working father. He realised that
his father was neglected and uncared inspite of being the lone bread-earner for the family.
Though the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ has autobiographical touch, it goes beyond its
autobiographical significance. As its an account of every old man of suburban area who does the hard
work for his family but leads a monotonous life where no one to converse with him, to understand his
feelings and to look after him.

The poem consists of two stanzas of first stanza is of 12 lines and second stanza is of 13 lines. It is a free
verse where there is no rhyme and no [Link] poem is very symbolic the very structure of the poem
is also symbolic as the lack of rhythm is symbolises that the poet’s father was uncared-for life. The
language is easy and simple but full of imagery and symbolism. It is in first person narrative where the
poet himself is the speaker who narrates the isolated life and monotonous routine of his father. The
prominent figures of speech in the poem are Alliteration, Simile and Onomatopoeia. The poet expresses
his feelings for his old father, but every old father has almost same condition so we can take moral from
the poem that 'we must look after the elderly members in our family and society' I like the poem very
much as it depicts the real picture of monotony and lethargic life of the elderly hard working person in
the modern society.

2.6 Money (Appreciation)

The poem "Money" is the poem taken from the famous poetic volume of W. H. Davies "The Collected
Poem" published in the year 1916. The poet has an identity as Welsh Poet and writer as he was born
and brought up there. The poem deals with the theme that "the real happiness is not in being rich but
the real happiness one must become poor" because the poet has an experience that whenever he had
money he had many friends but they were interested in his wealth but after becoming poor he had very
few friends but all of them are true. The poet realised that real happiness we can feel only when we
become poor.

The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines each with the regular rhyme scheme where only second and fourth
line rhyme with each other, thus the rhythm scheme is abcb. The poet enrich the poem with many
figures of speech like Simile, Repetition, Inversion, Antithesis Onomatopoeia etc. The language used by
the poet is very simple and easy to understand. The special feature of the poem is that the poet used
the used interjection... O!" in the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. The
moral of the poem is money may be very important but the most important thing in the life is real true
friends which we can get only in poverty. So we must value people and not money. I like the poem very
much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life.