Second Reading Of Walter De La Mare
Second Reading of Walter De la Mare's 'Silver' (Slowly, silently, now the moon)
Walter De la Mare's 'Silver' describes the beauty of a moonlit night and the effect of the moonlight on the earth. The poet has sketched a number of different pictures of the moonlight scene through extended metaphors. But as we know De la Mare's writings have an eerie, fantastic quality, which serves as a means of entry into a world of deeper reality, his perceptions in 'Silver' endow with charm and candor .
The moon is here merely not a physical form, lifeless, moving around earth. Moon is a Personification of a muse. The silver moon turns everything into mystic beauty. The light of the moon falls on different objects and things and turns them into silver. The repetition of the word 'Silver' in the poem creates a vivid picture before our eyes of silvery moonlight.
In the beginning the poet gives a human personality to the poem, He pictures the moon as a young lady who walks in the silvery shoes that turn everything into silver. With this personification in mind the poet goes on to describe the onward journey of the moon. It is a moonlit night. The silvery moonlight makes everything look silvery, as it goes up and up in the sky. The trees with their fruits, the windows under the thatched roofs, the paws of a dog fast asleep, the feathers of doves in their shady nests, the claws and eye of a harvest mouse and the reeds in a stream where a fish lies motionless—turn into silver in the light of the moon. The whole surrounding is transformed into a dreamland of beauty.
Now as the line goes 'Silver' looks as a creation of one intense image or impression and notable for its compression and suggestiveness. Through a vivid but fleeting observation 'Silver' evokes moody and emotive nature- the nocturnal one. Being truly Georgian the poem metaphorically tells the story of King Midas’s golden touch of his finger, rendering it lifeless. Have we no way to free ourselves from
Walter De la Mare's 'Silver' describes the beauty of a moonlit night and the effect of the moonlight on the earth. The poet has sketched a number of different pictures of the moonlight scene through extended metaphors. But as we know De la Mare's writings have an eerie, fantastic quality, which serves as a means of entry into a world of deeper reality, his perceptions in 'Silver' endow with charm and candor .
The moon is here merely not a physical form, lifeless, moving around earth. Moon is a Personification of a muse. The silver moon turns everything into mystic beauty. The light of the moon falls on different objects and things and turns them into silver. The repetition of the word 'Silver' in the poem creates a vivid picture before our eyes of silvery moonlight.
In the beginning the poet gives a human personality to the poem, He pictures the moon as a young lady who walks in the silvery shoes that turn everything into silver. With this personification in mind the poet goes on to describe the onward journey of the moon. It is a moonlit night. The silvery moonlight makes everything look silvery, as it goes up and up in the sky. The trees with their fruits, the windows under the thatched roofs, the paws of a dog fast asleep, the feathers of doves in their shady nests, the claws and eye of a harvest mouse and the reeds in a stream where a fish lies motionless—turn into silver in the light of the moon. The whole surrounding is transformed into a dreamland of beauty.
Now as the line goes 'Silver' looks as a creation of one intense image or impression and notable for its compression and suggestiveness. Through a vivid but fleeting observation 'Silver' evokes moody and emotive nature- the nocturnal one. Being truly Georgian the poem metaphorically tells the story of King Midas’s golden touch of his finger, rendering it lifeless. Have we no way to free ourselves from