Resumo de A Poetry

This poetry gives writing expression in imaginative language with some deep thought, feeling, or human experience.
It is highly ordered artistic creation and that the only way you can see its full beauty displayed and understand it thoroughly is to be able to accept it on its own terms. A poem must be seen as a cumulative verbal entity through which the poet expresses a vision of life hidden to the less imaginative. The poet seeks to communicate that vision and its full impact is realised in our experience of the poem as a whole and through our understanding of the techniques which the poet uses to create this sense of identification and universalisation. We cannot feel the full force of a poem by concentrating our energies on looking for its meaning. It is the whole poem as an entity that means. Comments on the poems i include in this book indicate the principles and attitudes that have guided me in my commentaries and notes.
?I think it rains? is a subtle and sophisticated examples of a poem that suggests the uses of language that amplifies its scope and meaning in such a way that as with all good poems, it is possible to read more than on meaning into it. It exemplifies that quality of poetry which makes it just a statement of a private points of view. It starts like private meditations in a particular state of mind, and then expands and encompasses everybody. There is expressed in this poem the idea of the union of a man and natural phenomena: the rain functions not only as a physical reality that described and alluded to, but also a symbolic image through which the deeper implications of the poem are worked out.
The poem is built around a single statement or position ?I think it rains?. The rest of the poem is a development of this simple expression in its varied ramifications. But notice that quite early in the poems, indeed in the first stanza, we realize that there are two aspects to the rain mentioned here: the physical and symbolic. The poem then becomes an exploration of theses two dimensions that constantly interlock to elaborate on the main idea of the poem in groups of images, aided by strong elements of paradox. We are soon aware that it is not the fact of the physical rain which is important in the poet?s scheme but the emotional, spiritual and intellectual ?thawing? effect which the rain has, leading to some kind of liberation. The focus on the rain therefore not only provides the external structures of the poem, but also the internal structure of meaning. This is what should be needed to experience to understand the art fully.
Let us also take a brief look at the first three stanzas of his poem ?The Call?. The first three stanzas deal with the idea of limitlessness by paradoxically treating things, which seem to the poet to be bound by time. This prepares the way for him to state the one thing, which is beyond the confines of time ? his love, the ?distant call? of the poem. The last three stanzas deal with the ideas, and his affection is conveyed by the arresting image of cockerel chasing a hen. The intermingling of love and life in the fourth stanza introduces an interesting philosophical notion.
What I have been trying to suggest is that poetry operates by a careful organisation of words into sense-groups, which among themselves are linked towards making a meaningful whole. And to help meet these demands on the younger reader anxious to acquire some skills in poetry reading, I have provided guides in two forms:
1. A commentary on each poem, which includes a general description of what the poem may be said ?to be about?, and also provides a basic context for the poem.
2. Notes on words, lines and devices which may not be immediately grasped and understood.

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