Works Of Art Poem Analysis

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If the hospital is a compulsory world of escape or exile, the world of art is another means of escape. In “Works of Art” the poet describes how what “often appears like escape is made up of sweat and blood.” (163) More than the world of art, “For a visionary poet” is written completely in terms of images of light and knowledge; they fuse to make the vision of the poet. The details are all concrete: trees, fruit, smoke and “fractured glass” Jennings believes that the lofty expressions of the visionary poet are the results of a mind that constructs meaning out of unconnected objects and ideas. “You are the history behind your vision. The shadow that you will not intrude/Except that it makes all light impossible.” (164) It is an elevated definition …show more content…

In “Exodus” she perfects the form so that it flows with the incantative rhythm. The child is the central figure and the voice sounds as if it is coming from a distance, covered with the haze of history and the mysterious beginnings of all life. The events are described on a literal level but immensity is released with each idea and phrase. “Down from the cliffs we came. Hand in hand .Children with all afternoons before us” is an example of the interwoven abstraction is: “My world was the sea’s edge, the warm breakers, the grey rocks. Distance was the Atlantic with the huge convoys.” Sometimes the aspects of the same being are seen side by side in the same lines: “I am English- - and made on surface of gentle moods. Yet long for south and seek for white cities, vines on the walls, sea left where the sand moulds it, flesh sunburnt and surrendered,” (171) “The Exodus”, as narrated in the Bible dealt with the migration of the Chosen People to the Land of Promise. Though the details of migration itself are the least part of the Biblical writing, here they become the important elements that create an atmosphere in which a journey takes place. Childhood is the beginning of all awareness; it is also a journey into adulthood, and on the way one gathers a myriad of experiences which are stored in the

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