The Image of the Divine Entity in Modern Poetry
It is in our very own nature as human beings to inquire as to the existence of beings superior to us, if not utterly perfect, then at the very least endowed with far greater qualities than us.
To begin with, in order to portray the previously mentioned facts, two modern poems have been chosen, each of them conveying the theme of divinity, even though of rather different forms of divinity, Edwin Morgan’s Message Clear and Full Moon and Little Frieda belonging to Ted Hughes.
Firstly, Ted Hughes, British Poet Laureate and one of the most famous poets and writers for children of his time (the second half of the 20th century), has managed with superb craft to bring to one’s attention the ...
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each field begins with an adjective: ‘full’ and ‘little’, which are meant to underline the discrepancy between the two statuses; the divine is ‘full’, complete, flawless, whereas the human is ‘little’, individually insignificant. Moreover, the conjunction ‘and’ seems to act like a barrier between the two notions, and one could argue that the poet could have in fact tried to oppose the two of them, using Chaucer’s technique: for example in the description of the Prioress in his Canterbury Tales , he uses ‘and’ when trying to put an emphasis on the opposite features of the woman, the contrary facts that made her personality (Full fetis was her cloak as I was 'ware./ Of small coral about her arm she bare/ A pair of beads gauded all with green,/ And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen/ On which was written first a crowned A/ And after: Amor Vincit Omnia.). The same could apply to Hughes’s title.
To continue with, the setting of the actual poem is in the country-side, around ...
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of the night’s mystique, just as ancient gods used to respond to the offerings of their followers in their own shrines and temples.
Proceeding with, the second stanza brings to the reader’s attention the concrete form of life in the shape of cows, they being the very first ones to disrupt the motionless, still picture with their returning home. Through their description as ‘A dark river of blood, many boulders’, the cows become the supreme expression of life on earth, also having a life-giving function through their bearing of milk. The second stanza ends with a most significant line, ‘Balancing unspilled milk’, implying the lack of any regrets on the behalf of the cows, them being ...
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