'Poetry appreciation “Fire the sun”\r'

'Basic anyy the rime is divided into third parts. individually part identifies a specific task delegate to a cleaning wo gay. It is a really primary and frank verse, which does non beat around the bush. It is very casual to recognize and gagedidly verbotenlines the average chars life, carrying break her workaday duties. However in doing this, we get the judgment that she seems to be giving up a part of herself †her senses establish somewhat distorted.We are told of three certain tasks carried out by these women †doing the dishes, cleaning the level and minding the children.\r\nThe first stanza is utilize to a woman doing the dishes. Every line is perennial as it says, â€Å"the woman doing the dishes has cark hearing”. This could be due to the noise and clamour created by the dishes.\r\nThe bite stanza is dedicated to a woman cleaning the floor. This woman however cannot hear at all. A artistic style is apply:\r\nâ€Å"Let us have a effec t of silence\r\nFor the woman who cleans the floor”\r\nwhich is normally used at funeral or memorial go when mourning the deceased. It is in any case ironic because this woman neer has a moment of silence for herself in her restless life. This, together with the image of the woman ever codaingly cosmos on the floor, thitherfore low down gives us the impression that this woman is regarded as dead because analogous a dead person, she cannot hear at all.\r\nThe deuce-ace stanza is dedicated to a woman at base of operations with the children. We are told that this woman is not seen at wickedness as she is looking after the children. She also cannot let out up for herself or get word to what pre disposeer(a)(a)s think she competency have said if she was there.\r\nIn this numbers, the women have been very uninventive underlining their daily, tedious chores. An overwhelming impression of the lose of power of the woman is felt reading finished the poem- she has the r esponsibility of a wife, a worker and sustain and it is not in her strength to alter anything in the life that has been set for her.\r\nHowever there appears to be a fater underlying meaning to the rather simple outlook of the poem. We get the impression that the woman al agencys seems to be taken advantage of and has to stupefy other things before her. She is akin a puppet controlled and hardly about programmed to carry out menial tasks day in and day out. The first stanza emphasises this through the repetition stressing the monotony and routineness of the chores. It is also repetitive because we are told the woman has trouble hearing and things have to be repeated, as she doesnt under uprise the first epoch. The second woman cannot hear at all as she is continuously cleaning the floor and then the third woman is un satisfactory to sing for herself, as she never gets to go out at night and meet people. Great emphasis is put upon their sense of hearing †again the women are stereotyped in the way that the poet is saying, beingness a woman there is such intense concentration on a task that they become oblivious to other things around them. It also ties in with the feature that they cannot also hear the voices of the economize which may be complain; subsequently if women cant hear then they cant speak their minds.\r\n expand to interpretation could be whether the poem is about three different women each doing a specific chore, or about one woman who does all these jobs.\r\n cause:\r\nThere is no distinct form to this poem †there are three separate stanzas; in the first, every line is repeated twice. However the last two stanzas are written with no trenchant rhyming scheme or any clear pattern. This poem is in the free verse form using simple terminology. This relates to the women in the poem who are also very simple.\r\nTONE:\r\nKeeping in mind that this poem, which differentiates chores for women and insinuates about their fixed way of life, is in reality written by a woman. It could be looked at as the poet taking a general impression of most women or maybe even including her experiences in it, yet, if she was any of these women, she wouldnt have been able to write the poem. It dexterity even be written in the fictitious character of a man therefore bringing in the manful factor; the opinion of a man on women. Nevertheless the lineament, no matter how depressing, seems to be quite realistic, calm and assured. It is in a way pitying and sympathetic yet also submissive in that the poet seems to accept it as a fact of life that cannot be changed. The tone is aggressive in a gentle way, rather than attacking, for it states the facts as they stand using uncomplicated language, which is extremely effective as it hits one straight in the heart.\r\nIMAGERY:\r\nAlthough the language is very simple, certain images are evoked in our minds as we read the poem. The first image is created by the repetition in the first s tanza. The image is of a woman at a sink, almost like a robot, washing one dish after another and drying them one by one. The monotony strikes us as being almost inhumane as it seems never-ending.\r\n other image is created by the woman on ‘the floor who ‘cannot hear at all and is given a moment of silence. There is a strong image of demise in this stanza as it seems that the woman is closer to her heavy on the floor than to the people around her. It is as though she is dead to the world and therefore has to be mourned. As she is so out of reach, it could explain why she cannot hear at all. It also creates the image if not of being close to her grave then being low in society i.e. her body pose reflecting her status in society.\r\nThe third image is created by the empty space mentioned in the last stanza that one has to stare into to approximate the woman who is in fact at substructure with the children. She has to be given an empty space, which creates a optical pi cture in which one cannot distinguish the disengagement between her and her kids as they are so much(prenominal) a part of her †the empty space is just as empty as she is. As ‘you never see her at night we get the impression that she has no time for herself †the housework and children take up all her time. Although she may actually be able to hear, she is compelled not to because the image is created that the racket of the children overpowers her. Also, as she doesnt get to go out much, she cannot speak to defend herself or listen to other conversations. She might not be able to speak because she is uneducated and does not have the resolution to defend herself. This night setting is realistic because at night men tend to go out more than women, especially at that time.\r\nAs there are many aural images of hearing etc., aural devices have been used which play as enunciate effects i.e. assonance in the second stanza:\r\n‘Another poem for a woman\r\nThis soft ‘o sound can be tied to the image of death and sculpt which is fall uponable in this stanza. Alliteration is also used in the third stanza:\r\n‘One more poem for the woman at home\r\nAgain this is a sensibly calm ‘m sound which ties in with the whole tone of the poem.\r\nDeliberate use of these devices by the poet can be doubted for it is not a very elaborate poem and there are no other devices such as similes or metaphors- it is very basic.\r\nINTENTION\r\nI think the authors intention was to make people notice these jobs that women do, for although they are so obvious, no one acknowledges their importance. The woman are taken too much for give for carrying out these chores and are not appreciated for what they do. It seems to deem greatly the male view and reflects the stereotype male attitude of a woman, emphasising where he sees her the most. she is always work somewhere-washing, cleaning, looking after the kids etc, and she never really has time for him. Even at night when it is the time for the husband and wife to be together, she has more important things to tend to.\r\nThis is a simple, heartrending poem which, due to its simplicity, allows deep thought.\r\n'