Name: Syifa Ravina Gamelia
NIM : 2211421129
1. Read the poems above. What features can you identify in the poems
as Georgian poems? What make them different from imagist poems?
The things what make Georgian poems difference from imagist
poems are their common features in the poems. Georgian poems put
forward romanticism, sentimentality, and hedonism; whereas imagist
poems focus on detailed description. Imagist poems only talk about an
object’s physical appearance that explained in details of the poet’s
sight, for example in the poem of “Willow Tree” by William Carlos
Williams. He depicts prettiness that exist on and around a willow tree.
Meanwhile, Georgian poems take their features on someone’s feeling
toward grotesque element of nature that judged as evil, which make
one anxious, and prettiness of nature as the benevolent and good side.
For example, in “The Owl” poem by Edward Thomas, he explains how
he escaped and survived from the cold and freezing snow, which
makes him starving, then managed to get in to warm inn and got fed.
Then, he heard an owl’s cry from the outside.
2. What Romantic aspects can you find in the poems? Give some
examples.
Romanticism is aspect that can be got from creativity in someone’s
imagination. Romanticism also can be seen from someone’s imaginary
upon a contemplation in one’s solitude. His solitude meditation is
successfully completed by existence of nature around him. For
example, On the line ‘The azure skies, sing such a history, of come
and gone’ and ‘very old are we men, our dreams are tales’ in the poem
“all’s that past” by Walter de la Mare. This lines arrangement shows
analogy and visualization of how life just flow and past upon human’s
living. Life’s all about life and death that makes a story of a man is just
a history, nothing else. This depicts how fragile and mortal life that
individual has.
Another example is in “The Owl” poem by Edward Thomas. On the
line ‘All of the night was quite barred out except, an owl’s cry, the most
melancholy cry’, it was the capture of how cold and suffering outside
off the inn that the poet managed to survive. This quote is one of the
lines that proof how contrast the torment of freezing night and the
pleasure of warm someone could get in a shelter. The ‘melancholy cry’
shows how suffer the person while being outside that represented by
owl’s chirping.
3. What social aspects do the poems portray? How do the poets reveal
these aspects?
In “Arms and The Boy” by Wilfred Owen, the poet portrays how’s
social circumstance that going on during World War I era. On the lines
of ‘Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade, how cold the steel is, and
keen with the hunger of blood’ and ‘For his teeth seem for laughing
round an apple’ illustrates sorrow atmosphere that brings an innocent
boy become vicious in a ruthless war. The deadly weapon that the boy
brings potentially be able to drag him into bloodthirsty personality,
which this description actually proven real in World War I. This
interpretation indirectly visualizes how gloomy of a society’s life was
that surrounded by warfare shadow. When a youth enforced to defend
his country, willy-nilly he had to wet his innocent hand with blood. This
reality obviously would bring hopelessness to people’s mind especially
youngster.
In the poem of “Still-life” by Elizabeth Daryush, she describes a
social injustice between the upper class and the middle-low class. In
this poem, she depicts how fancy and glamour life that wealthy people
have. But on the last lines ‘That even the unopened future lies, like a
love-letter, full of sweet surprises,’ She means that the richness and
fanciness that they have won’t necessarily bring them to the expected
future. From this poem, we can also see the criticism that emphasized
by Daryush upon the social gap.
4. How are language and sound devices used in the poems? What are
the theme and tone of the poems?
In the poem of “Arms and The Boy” by Wilfred Owen and “Break of
the day in the trenches” by Isaac Rosenberg, both poems have similar
theme which are warfare and death, also presented in pessimistic tone
as the complement ingredient. For the language devices using, there’s
a metaphor and symbolism used in the poems. For the usage of
metaphor, it’s on the line ‘The darkness crumbles away’. This has
meaning of war that keep progressing although a night has end.
‘Crumbles’ also means gone scattered that describes chaotic
atmosphere going on.
For the symbolism that Rosenberg uses is the word “Rat”. It
symbolizes soldiers that great at sneaking and moving between
section of war trenches. This ability makes them flexible and easy to
kill enemy. In “Arms and The Boy” metaphor that is used is on the line
‘There no lurk claws behind his fingers supple’. It shows the innocent
figure that still remained in the youth’s heart although he had killed
dozens of enemies easily. And the symbolism point is at the word
“Bayonet-blade” which symbolizes pain, destruction, and death. On
sound devices using, this poem use assonance of sound /i/ on the line
‘Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth’ and
