Inevitable Poem Analysis

Another important section is devoted to the lives and works of poets and artists, Tolstoy, D.H.Lawerence, Edward Thomas, Aldoux Huxley, Klee, Pascal and others.
The changing nature of Jennings’ poetic style is seen in the directness of language and its power. In the poem, “Inevitable” she says: “I am the haunted house whose doors are locked,/I am the echo of a sickening cry./I am the ghost by which a child was shocked,/ I am the way you die,”(358).The poem runs with the same controlled energy and inevitability till it ends on the same line predicting doom.
The personal poems which are descriptions of parent daughter relationships are handled with an incredible balance in two separate poems “To My Mother at 73” and “The Elegy for My Father.” The first poem describes the barriers that have been created due to aging of both mother and daughter. These barriers of understanding block

The natural, the human and the religious form a cycle in Consequently I Rejoice. Each poem is seen as a reason to rejoice for Jennings’ secret of existence to affirm. Life has a way of revealing its secrets; they come as surprises. The given stanza illustrates this point: Give us the light, the lonely privilege/ Of Offering our praise, a plea within/ Enormous spaces lasting to the edge/ Of almost dawn, and let the birds begin/ To chip at sounds, set fire to tree and hedge.”(362)
The two collections Growing Points and Consequently I Rejoice reveal the stage of growth and celebration. It promises a strength that can bring together warring elements within a modern individual into a meaningful harmony through artistic expression. With her deep faith Jennings sees clearly through the storm and makes poetry out of chaos. “ Now I abandon all my attributes –/Failure, success, despair – until I have Nothing at all but hard invincible doubts Shaping the oneself that I can believe”