Words
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- Created on: 12-05-15 10:00
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- Words (June 1915)
- 'their joy or their pain'
- personifying words - to Thomas they are as important as people
- oxymoron - gives the words a full range of human emotions
- the guardian claimed that the constant oxymorons in the poem give it poetic buoyancy.
- 'choose me // you English words?'
- the words have their own minds and can choose their poet.
- by specifying that they are English Thomas shows himself as a patriotic war poet
- questioning the words - they know more than him
- 'you are light as dreams // tough as oak'
- addressing the words directly.
- oxymoron - words can have every quality the writer wants them to.
- 'strange and sweet // equally'
- oxymoron
- enjambment
- 'young as our streams//after rain'
- pastoral nature - the circle of life
- rain can bring life but also be destructive with great force
- with some sweetness//from Wales
- Thomas had Welsh heritage
- not as sweet as English words
- 'fixed and free'
- oxymoron
- alliteration of the f gives the statement a flowing feel - clear movement between being fixed and free
- Thomas may be implying that he is fixed with being a poet and needing to sell his poetry but his poetry can be as free as he makes it
- 'In a rhyme//as poets do'
- referring directly to poets makes the poem personal to him and therefore allows the reader to feel personally connected to Thomas.
- it's interesting that Thomas refers to rhymes given he often doesn't use rhymes in his poetry - is he implying that he isn't a true poet?
- 'their joy or their pain'
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