2:3 Appreciation of the poem
' The Inchcape Rock '
----------------------------------------------------
About the poem/poet and the title --------
' The Inchcape Rock ' is a ballad. It is a narrative poem . It is written by the British poet Robert Southey . The poem consists of seventeen quatrains written in rhyming couplets .It tells us of legendary Inchcape rock .The story is about the good Abbot of Aberbrothok and the devilish Sir Ralph the Rover . It begins by describing how the bell was installed on the rock by Abbot of Aberbrothok . It ends with how Ralph the Rover cut down the bell from Inchcape rock and died by crashing his boat against the same rock .
The theme ------
The theme of the poem is that one has to suffer the consequences of one's action .He who digs a pit for others falls into it and those who do bad things will ultimately be punished .
Poetic style----
The poem Inchcape Rock is a ballad .It is didactic in nature . Its tone is narrative . It consists of seventeen stanzas of four lines each . Here first line of the each stanza rhymes with the second and third line with the fourth .
The language/poetic devices used in the poem --------
The language of the poem is very lucid and Simple . It is a long narrative poem . It is very easy to understand .It is free from artificiality . It is didactic in nature . The poem has full of imageries. The lines ,' The sun in the heaven was shining gay ', and ' the waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock' , are the example of visual images . The poet has used many figures of speech in the poem .They are Metaphor , Simile , Alliteration Personification , Inversion , Repetition ,Apostrophe and Onomatopoeia .The line ' The Devil below was ringing his Knell' is a perfect example of Metaphor implies that death is calling Ralph near to him. The rhyming scheme is aabb for each stanza .The first two and last two lines of each stanza rhyme with each other .
Special features-----
The poem is a bit long . It consists of seventeen quatrains and written in a rhyming couplets. It is a ballad . It is traditionally sung by a wandering musicians .The poem is full of adventure , heroism , jealousy and moral .
Message, values , morals ----
The poet delivers a message that those who do wrong things will meet with due Punishment.In other words , ' As you sow , so shall you reap '. The Rover cut off the bell from the inchcape rock , so that other sailors ship should struck and wreck .But his own ship struck against the very rock because of the absence of any warning sound and sank in the sea . The moral of the poem is that he who digs a pit for others , falls himself in to it .
Your opinion about the poem --------
The Inchcape Rock is a beautiful poem . It teaches us some good moral values .It teaches us that good is always stronger than evil. Evil person is always punished for his bad actions where as good person is rewarded . In the poem the sailors used to thank and bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok in their hearts for tying the bell on the inchcape rock,where as Sir Ralph meets a deserved death for his wickedness .
____________________________________________Thank You ______________
very nice Sir
ReplyDelete