Karteikarten
Edward Thomas
Karten in diesem Stapel (6)
- 1Aspens"The Whisper of Aspens is not drowned"
- "Whisper" creates a sense of fragility
-"Is not" Defiance, still whispering, lasts forever like Aspen trees
-Sibilance- creates a soft whipsering sound - 2The Sun Used to Shine"Fallen apples, all the talks/ and silences"
-"All" provides reader with Thomas' and Robert Frost's transient experiences in the Dymock countryside
- The fallen "apples" may present the experiences of soldiers in combat while he and Frost were together
-The enjambment creates a liminal (transitional state) feel to the phrase, presents Thomas' questioning to go to war. - 3The Teams Head-Brass"Many gone from here?" "Yes" "Many lost?" "Yes:/ A good few"
-The dialogue in this poem is the key focus and it's impact is in the monosyllabic words which presents the hostility that was towards war and also the bleak and numbness of life because of war.
- Repetition of "many" creates the catastrophic impact of war. - 4Tears"And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed /and have forgotten since their beauty past"
-Written a few months before enlisting and is largely about the effects of war with traces of nationalism.
-Sibilance creates a dream like atmosphere
-Beauty having "passed" suggests war is beginning to taint what is beautiful
"and silence," caesura isolates the phrase allures to Thomas' isolation of that of the soldiers. - 5Rain"Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain"
-written while Thomas lay in bed one night listening to rain, prompts him to think of soldiers exposed to danger and death.
-this phrase uses spondee which is stressing two syllables in a row , may symbolise Thomas' disrupted state of mind.
-Also, the pauses caused by caesura creates a quickening and slowing of pace, similar to sound of rain
-"wild" rain is out of control and can't be tamed, ruthless attitude to war? - 6Lights outFirst line:"I have come to the borders of sleep"
Last line: "That I may lose my way/ and myself"
-This poem was written a month before Thomas' death and has quite a sombre and reflective mood.
-These phrases present Thomas beginning and ending the poem with "I" or "myself", significant of the view that we all begin our lives and end them alone.
-This idea is also enforced by the use of enjambment, isolating "and myself".
-Can find similarities in 'Rain' when he says "born into this solitude"