Loch Ard Gorge and Summer Rain
“How is the idea of people and their relationship to the environment portrayed in Folucher’s Poetry?”
In Foulcher’s poetry he shows the different types of relationships people can have with their surrounding environment. In the writers poems ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ and ‘Summer Rain’ he focuses on the different elements of nature that people have to live with. This is portrayed by using a range of poetic techniques such as, symbolic imagery, connotative language, adjectives, contrast and metaphors.
In ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ Foulcher uses Symbolic imagery and sexual connotations in his first stanza to bring forth the violence in nature as well as men. The poet uses the words ‘tide thrust’. These words can give the idea of a man’s assault on a woman or even the violence in sexual intercourse. This symbolises the aggression and roughness in men and nature and how similar they can be. In the fourth stanza the poet describes what lies beneath the ocean. People look at nature as being beautiful but Foulcher’s uses the adjective ‘savage’ to describe the fish in the ocean as a symbol of aggression. The writer describes the depths of the ocean as ‘dark’ as well as the instinctive behaviour of the fish. The line ‘savage dark fish’ is a short intense line that creates a threating rhythm; this line is a strong symbol of people’s fear of the danger that exists in nature.
Foulcher uses contrast when he compares what humans perceive to be beautiful as violent when the reader looks deeper. The two words ‘dark and ‘light’ are in contrast to each other. The ocean seems to be pretty on top when the poet uses the metaphor ‘decked with light.’ But he shows the dark depths when he mentions the fish below as ‘savage dark fish’. This can also symbolise the fear of look beyond what they can see.
In Foulcher’s poem the title ‘Summer Rain’ creates the expectation of rain but the poet starts with an ugly scene, the highway. The writer uses a simile to give the reader an idea of what the highway
In Foulcher’s poetry he shows the different types of relationships people can have with their surrounding environment. In the writers poems ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ and ‘Summer Rain’ he focuses on the different elements of nature that people have to live with. This is portrayed by using a range of poetic techniques such as, symbolic imagery, connotative language, adjectives, contrast and metaphors.
In ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ Foulcher uses Symbolic imagery and sexual connotations in his first stanza to bring forth the violence in nature as well as men. The poet uses the words ‘tide thrust’. These words can give the idea of a man’s assault on a woman or even the violence in sexual intercourse. This symbolises the aggression and roughness in men and nature and how similar they can be. In the fourth stanza the poet describes what lies beneath the ocean. People look at nature as being beautiful but Foulcher’s uses the adjective ‘savage’ to describe the fish in the ocean as a symbol of aggression. The writer describes the depths of the ocean as ‘dark’ as well as the instinctive behaviour of the fish. The line ‘savage dark fish’ is a short intense line that creates a threating rhythm; this line is a strong symbol of people’s fear of the danger that exists in nature.
Foulcher uses contrast when he compares what humans perceive to be beautiful as violent when the reader looks deeper. The two words ‘dark and ‘light’ are in contrast to each other. The ocean seems to be pretty on top when the poet uses the metaphor ‘decked with light.’ But he shows the dark depths when he mentions the fish below as ‘savage dark fish’. This can also symbolise the fear of look beyond what they can see.
In Foulcher’s poem the title ‘Summer Rain’ creates the expectation of rain but the poet starts with an ugly scene, the highway. The writer uses a simile to give the reader an idea of what the highway