Std. 12th. Poetic Appreciation of the poem 2.6 "Money"

Poetic Appreciation of the poem 2.6 "Money"

 Poetic Appreciation of "Money"

Read the extract carefully and write an appreciation of the poem considering the following points.

✳️About the poet and the title

✳️The theme

✳️ Poetic style, Language, poetic devices.

✳️ Special feature 

✳️Values 

✳️Your opinion about the poem

The poem "Money" is the poem taken from the famous poetic volume of W. H. Davies "The Collected Poem" published in the year 1916. The poet has an identity as Welsh Poet and writer as he was born and brought up there. The poem deals with the theme that "the real happiness is not in being rich but the real happiness one must become poor" because the poet has an experience that whenever he had money he had many friends but they were interested in his wealth but after becoming poor he had very few friends but all of them are true. The poet realized that real happiness we can feel only when we become poor. 

 The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines each with a regular rhyme scheme where only the second and fourth line rhyme with each other, thus the rhythm scheme is abcb. The poet enriches the poem with many figures of speech like Simile, Repetition, Inversion, Antithesis Onomatopoeia, etc. The language used by the poet is very simple and easy to understand. The special feature of the poem is that the poet used the used interjection... O!" in the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. The moral of the poem is money may be very important but the most important thing in life is real friends which we can get only in poverty. So we must value people and not money. I like the poem very much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life.