Commentary on a poem, anyone fancy doing one?

January 27th, 2020

I know this is cheeky, but I was wondering if anyone had a spare half an hour to write a 400-600 word commentary on the poem “Entirely” by Louis MacNeice.
The poem goes like this :
If we could get the hang of it entirely      It would take too long; All we know is the splash of words in passing      and falling twigs of song, And when we try to eavesdrop on the great      Presences it is rarely That by a stroke of luck we can appropriate      Even a phrase entirely.
If we could find our happiness entirely      In somebody else's arms We should not fear the spears of the spring nor the city's      Yammering fire alarms But, as it is, the spears each year go through      Our flesh and almost hourly Bell or siren banishes the blue      Eyes of Love entirely.
And if the world were black or white entirely      And all the charts were plain Instead of a mad weir of tigerish waters,      A prism of delight and pain, We might be surer where we wished to go      Or again we might be merely Bored but in the brute reality there is no      Road that is right entirely.      Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

As you can tell, a lovely poem And i’m not gonna lie, i am not the greatest at English at college!
Thanks anyhoo!

Answer #1
Identify techniques first like Similes, Metaphors, where is plenty in there.
Entirely is repetition inferring that maybe he isn’t sure its entirely there. There is a load of rhyming couplets.
Remember, that although its a work load. Its for your own good.
Answer #2
I guess you’ve kind of kicked me off in the right direction so thanks! and I guess you’re right about the work, just i’ve got so much for tomorrow, i thought i’d be lazy and try and pass the smallest bit i’ve got off! Thanks

 

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