BLOG IX

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This blog is named ? because I do not know what title choose. First, it is really hard to me read poetry because the language, and second because I do not like it. It is not about genre; it is about feelings. I consider that when you choose a poem or you like it; it is because it has something in common with you. It reflects your soul, so your inner can be at every one’s eyes, and that is nothing pleasant for me.  But I have to choose two, so I choose “Cargoes” written by John Masefield and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen because they have interesting images which can makes think about the usefulness of conquers in differents periond of history or we can hear each sound that the poet want us to hear for understanding in a better way the pain of death.

Masefield in his poem talks about three kinds of cargoes. Each stanza is specifying the materials that each vessel transports. To reaffirm each the materials, each second line of each stanza begins with: Rowing, Dipping, Butting. The first one is about commerce because it only talks about ivory, sandalwood, cedar wood, and white wine.  These materials those are important in that time to get money. Also, it can refer to biblical images, but I prefer do not talk about because I do not like talk about religion in school works.  The second is about  Spanish explorations. It  is the image of what the Spanish galleons brings to their king and queen. The words emeralds, amethysts, topazes, cinnamon and gold moiders refer to the first explorations to the new world which is victim of European ambition. Because of its richness was explored damaged, and looted.  The third one is about the British who trade with tyne coal, road-rails, pic-lead, firewood, iron-ware and chip tin trays. A new era has began with the coal. It is about new industry which is the beginning of a modern world. Each image of the different transportations and their cargos are clearly visual.  Our head can visualize each vessel with its materials and the time that represents. It is like if you can touch them with your hands which makes conquers and chages nice to the reader. It is like the author wants to justify each kind of exploration and its benefits for the world.  

On the other hand we have “Anthem for Doomed Youth” which is the image of death of soldiers. Even though its images are related with sounds  produced by  different items or attitudes such as: bells, choirs, rattle,  wailing, and some of them can be related to happy concepts, in an ironic way their meaning have a extreme relationship with death. This poem make me think about war no in a nice way but a social product that its intention is destroy, in this poem, young people lives maybe for an unjustified reason. In the first stanza the image is completely sounded, but the second one is completely visual: glimmers, pallor, pall, flowers, dusk, drawing, and blind. This stanza talks about how young people’s life is finished by war. It is about the consequences of an awful act as war. The contrast reflected in both stanzas makes the reader feel even sadder because its images are not justifying human’s cruel ambition but protesting about the results: young people dying.

The first poem describes the beauty of conquering, but the second one is a protest against war which brings death between young people. The first one is useful; the second one is a crime because it finishes with the future of a nation: youth.

Do in this time above all has importance this topics? Because of this is nice literature. It has not time or place. All the topics continue through out time. Those poems are two reflections of this time situation: conquer and death, useful but painful.