Theme of the poem- Under thr Green Wood Tree/The Lake Isle of Innisfree/Out, Out

1.                                                                                         Under the Greenwood Tree
                                 

                                             William Shakespeare (SB – 2017)

Under the greenwood tree

Who loves to lie with me,

And turn his merry note

Seeking the food he eats,

Unto the sweet bird’s throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither:

Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

Who doth ambition shun,

And loves to live I’ the shun,

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleas’d with what he gets,

Come hither, come hither , come hither:

Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

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Theme:

In his poem the poet explains the charms of forest (village) life vividly and asks people to come and join him in forest. The poet says that one will not find any enemy in forest and can spend peaceful life there. There no trouble in forest except cold wind and rough weather. The poet also says that one who has no high aspiration and is satisfied with what one gets can enjoy the real peace of life. Thus the main theme of the poem is that forest life is preferable to city or town life since the forest life is peaceful and closely connected to serenity of nature.

2.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

         W.B Yeats (U-12, L-1) ( RB – 2018)

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and soon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Theme: The poem expresses the theme that nature is the source of peace and happiness. The speaker of the poem is a nature lover. He is unhappy with the troubles of city life. He wants to escape from the city and seeks peace in nature. He makes a dreamland of his own in the lap of nature. In his imagination he builds a house with clay and wattles beside a lake. He wants to go there and enjoy all the sights and sounds of nature. The poet dreams of all these pleasure at the time when he is suffering in a city street.’

3.

Out, Out

       - Robert Frost (U-7, L-5)

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard I

And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,

Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

And from there those that lifted eyes could count

Five mountain ranges one behind the other

Under the sunset far into Vermont.

And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,

As it ran light, or had to bear a load.

And nothing happened: day was all but done.

Call it a day, I wish they might have said

To please the boy by giving him the half hour

That a boy counts so much when saved from work.

His sister stood beside him in her apron

To tell them ‘Supper’. At the word, the saw,

As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,

Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—

He must have given the hand. However it was,

Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!

The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh,

As he swing toward them holding up the hand

Theme: The poem portrays the tragedy of young boy who works in a saw mill. The boy does a man’s job. He eagerly desires to have at least half an hour to play. When his sister calls him for supper, it seems that saw knows the meaning and eats the boy’s hand. Unfortunately, because of this, the boy dies. Life is very fragile. The immature and cruel death of a young boy depicts the nothingness of lie and its brevity. It also shows the atrocities of the modern mechanical society. Most importantly, it did show any sympathy to boy. 

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