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the point is...? on poem The Great Lover •


  • theladydothprotest
    Jul 23 9:35 PM 2006
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    i am studying the middle section of this poem, from line 26 to line 58. I have to write a literary criticism on this part, and as soon as i read it i thought to myself, 'how on earth am i going to write a decent lengthened criticism on this???'. I have to comment on the imagery in this section. I can't see any imagery. Can you?

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    July 25, 2006
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    To me this is full of images AND each one is doubled. The actual thing being described from memory and what he was probably seeing in real life as well.
    Your first step would be to read all the poem and not just the specified lines in isolation.
    Then consider the things he writes about in turn.
    ask yourself
    When he would have seen these things
    Where would he have seen these things.
    Who would he have been with at the time he saw these things
    and crucially
    When was he writing and where was he writing. What was happening to him and others around him.
    There are plenty of hints in the extended biography on his author page on this site.
    When you do these things, the 'then and now' contrast should give you an overload of images and a few thousand words of commentary.
    Jim

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