Hello meritnation, I am sending you a poem pls explain the para marked in brackets from the poem NightMail.In this poem the poet describes a night train which carries mail from England to Scotland in the midnight. The train is given a personality of its own and we are made aware of the important function it fulfilled and how much, the mail it carries means to different people.
Dawn freshness , the climb is done.
Down towards Glasgwo she descends
Towrads the steam tugs yelping
Down the glade of carnes,
Towards the fields of apparatus , the furnaces
Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.
All Scotland waits for her :
In the dark glens, beside the pale - green lochs
Men long for news.
Dear Student
The Poem "Nightmail" is composed by American poet W.H.Auden.
In this poem, the poet W.H.Auden highlights the various characteristics of a night mail. It brings postal materials for every kind of people of Scotland. Along with various letters, the train brings happiness as well as anticipation in the minds of the people of Scotland.
The train passes through various fields, meadows and ups and downs to reach its destiny. The poet has metaphorically used the imagery of the train to provoke a resemblance of life along with it. Our life passes several ups and downs and finally, reaches our destiny, like the train.
The train passes through various fields, meadows and ups and downs to reach its destiny. The poet has metaphorically used the imagery of the train to provoke a resemblance of life along with it. Our life passes several ups and downs and finally, reaches our destiny, like the train.
The night mail stops at certain places. The train passes through meadows. It passes by large rocks, machines, furnaces etc.
The landscape of Glasgow, Scotland has industrial features.
The conscious usage of “fields of apparatus, the furnaces / Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen” recurs in the minds of readers as images of industrial advancement.
Regards
The landscape of Glasgow, Scotland has industrial features.
The conscious usage of “fields of apparatus, the furnaces / Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen” recurs in the minds of readers as images of industrial advancement.
Regards