نقد و بررسی شعر On this island نوشته ی W. H. Auden

On This Island

Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.

Here at a small field's ending pause
Where the chalk wall falls to the foam and its tall ledges
Oppose the pluck
And knock of the tide,
And the shingle scrambles after the su ck-
-ing surf, and a gull lodges
A moment on its sheer side.

Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge on urgent voluntary errands,
And this full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer through the water saunter.


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On this island

The leaping light for your delight discovers = matanomy

Light = metaphor -----> 1. Fire 2. Animal


Wander like a river = similie


The swaying sound of the sea = mixture of sensation


And the shingle scrambles after the s uck = personification


Far off like floating seeds the ships = similie
Ships are compared to floating seeds


And move in memory as now these clouds do = clouds resemble to ship

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