Sunday, June 8, 2008

Poem The Iron Iris By Ruxn Analysis

Stanza 1
“Live in the East and the West side, Leave out the North and the South” means the poet is looking at the East and the West side of the world. While he pauses looking at the North and South side of the world for a moment. Actually, he tries to look at what is happening around him in this world. The word “Red-eye” in “Red-eye of devil keeps razing” resembles the bad congregation of certain people who live in this world with too much manipulation and seem so happy to see people suffer from what they have done without clemency. “The million of green hungers whose wishes are blown away to the conurbation of evil” describes on no matter how much hopes for better days the victims give towards the war, it seems like the hopes that they wish for will not come true. The most sadist thing if the war still happens from one generation to one generation until the end of time. The victims may be dying because of the oppression that they are going through and all the hopes to have a peaceful life seems demolished. “Green hungers” means the people who seek for peaceful life.



Stanza 2
Overall, this stanza means that the poet reads newspaper in order to know what is happening in the other side of the world. In the newspaper, he can find a lot of sorrowful things such as the helps that are seeked by the war victims (“Full of rising hands”) and the pain that they endure (“Bleedings are breathing and the dropping of tears”). In the line of “While our eyes are like steel. Limbs are sealed” , the word “our” refers to the poet as well as the people on earth. This line means that our eyes can only see everything occurs around us and it seems that our eyes are already get used to see all those things and sometimes we tend to feel that war makes us tired and fed up because it happens almost everywhere and we just cannot do anything to stop it from occurring.

Stanza 3
This stanza generally means that, even we read a lot in the newspaper about the agony of the war victims and we lay our deepest sympathy to them, but our life has to continue on. We seem cannot spend much of our time thinking and sorrowing about other people as we have our on job to work on. We have to leave out all those sad things for a while and continue our normal life.

Stanza 4
“Live in the North and the South side, Leave out the East and the West” means the poet is looking at the East and the West side of the world. While he pauses looking at the East and West side of the world for a moment. That line is contrast to the first stanza. It seems that the poet changes his view on the North and South side of the world where finally he sees all 4 directions of the world which are North, South, East and West. He uses newspaper as a medium for reading and gaining information. As he reads the newspaper, he finds that the war is still happening ( “The evils are still breathing”) and it looks like we would never able stopping it.

Stanza 5
The word “winter” in line 1 means death or hopeless. The word “summer” in line 2 means the hope or life. “Does it dry up like raisin in the sun?” The word “it” in this line means hope. This line generally means to compare hope to a raisin dried in the sun that portrays terrible shrinking from fresh to dry. This line contains of very deep meaning which means something that really has happened and will it happen again?. Overall, this stanza elaborates on the hopes that are wished seem will not come true, unless those wicked people are eliminated from living in this world. Whatever happens around us, the eyes seem have to bear it and get used to see it and swallow all the bitterness in order to continue our life journey.

Poem The Iron Iris By Ruxn

Live in the East and the West side
Leave out the North and the South
Red-eye of devil keeps razing
The million of green hungers
Whose wishes are blown away
To the conurbation of evil.



Listen to the voices
Of black and white newspaper.
Full of rising hands,
Bleedings are breathing,
And the dropping of tears.
While our eyes are like steel.
Limbs are tightly sealed.

Look at the moving numbers of the clock
The long rail of life has to catch
The sounds of newspaper
Need to be muted
The eyes have to be blinded
The ears have to be deaf.

Live in the North and South side
Leave out the East and West
Hands flip the pages
Of black and white newspaper.
The evils are still breathing
To the battle that we never taste the victory.

Blow hopes to the forever winter
The summer is not for long
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
The eyes cannot endure anymore
To the sights that are violated
And the eyes have to bear.[2005]

Poem SONNET 71 By William Shakespeare

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with the vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.



POEM ANALYSIS

Sonnets 71-74 mainly resemble and associate the poet’s thoughts on his own mortality or death. This sonnet does not focus to any gender specifically whether to man or woman and the person who the poet refers to (in this sonnet) is rather be called as his beloved. The first quatrain, in line 2 (Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell), In Renaissance era, “passing-bell” was rung many times as an honor to the deceased’s life at funerals. In the first quatrain, generally it conveys that the poet is already died and left his life and his beloved. The poet asks his beloved not to lament when he is dead or even remember his name. In line 4 (From this vile world, with the vilest worms to dwell: ), actually signifies the transaction of living in the world to the grave.

The second quatrain indicates that this sonnet is written or created in order to solace his beloved after his death. In line 6 (The hand that writ it, for I love you so) points out that this sonnet is written and dedicated to his beloved and it illustrates a romantic relationship between the poet and his beloved. In addition to that, the poet believes that he would die before his beloved and it made him writing this sonnet in order to console his beloved after his death oneday. The poet also does not want his beloved to keep thinking about him and try to forget him as it makes his beloved in sorrow for the rest of his beloved’s life.

The third quatrain explains how the poet urges his beloved to completely “decay” him and their love relationship along with his dead body in the grave. In the final couplet, it expresses how the people would mock him and his beloved after his (the poet) death and they would be mocked by people about their past relationship when the poet was still alive. Overall, the poet concerns about his beloved’s life after his death especially what would his beloved face in his or her life after his death. And the reason for writing this sonnet is to solace his beloved’s emotion after his death and stop mourning after his death and live in contentment.

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