If I wish to do an impression of a Chinese chap, I will not allow myself to be hampered by the fact that I don't speak a word of Mandar... Pluto was the god of the underworld. A critical reading of an epoch-defining poem. elides her figure to a burr. Your email address will not be published. Among the poems that do not clearly state if they agree with the new industrialization, is The Pylons by Stephen Spender. But they were put there by people within living memory, so they must be an eyesore. For instance, in the first stanza we find ‘cottages’ chiming faintly with ‘villages’ and ‘made’ with ‘roads’. Betjeman, who was not of the Pylon School, reacted thus: Encase your legs in nylons Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul The Horologicon as a Song (and Wombats and Apples), Eierlegende-wollmilchsau: The Perfect Animal. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Many magazines have published his poems and The Stammering Man was a winner in the Templar pamphlet competition 2010. Stephen Spender’s poetry is not as widely known or read as it once was (far less studied), and he has been somewhat eclipsed in the popular consciousness by his fellow ‘poets of the thirties’, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. The secret about these, says the poet was their ‘stone’: the only natural thing about them that nothing else could endow with. The valley with its gilt and evening look. Amid “shattering material events, such as wars and revolutions,” he wrote, “the problem is to understand the nature of these events and transform them into a lucid language of the imagination, where they exist in their own right, coherent visions independent of reality, but nevertheless reflecting the truth of reality.”. Miguel Rostocvsky | They are as vulgar as naked girls that deliberately reveal. The poem was so famous that it heralded a new school of poets, namely ‘the Pylon Poets’ to label the work of Spender and his associates. We started ... Back when I was writing The Horologicon , there was one word that I desperately wanted to include. The Pylons Poem by Stephen Spender - Poem Hunter. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.). When I was a kid I was always excited to see them and would gape until they were out of sight. It was light and easy to build and terribly importantly it marked where the runway was. Yet this poem shows Spender’s ability to assimilate the newest technology into his poetry, and to turn modern science into art. What is the meaning of Spender’s poem? So fond were these thirties poets of Egyptian gateways that they were later known as the Pylon School of poetry. | The term “pylon poets” refers to “The Pylons,” a poem by Spender that many critics described as typical of the Auden generation. It was primarily an exercise in aliteration with the secondary aim of attacking NIMBY {Not In My Back Yard} protesters who wanted all pylons removing and replacing with underground cables!! Well, to be honest, the first three are pretty untranslatable. Perplexed? I studied this poem in high school, and find it now to be utterly quaint and pointless. Of that stone made, And crumbling roads. shape potato-printed, lino-cut, repeated. This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. So soon? Such pylons can be found on the Pont Alexandre III in Paris. The Poem - Arriving at last. Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret. They are devoid of modesty, principles and values where might is right. Egyptian temples tend to have the same kinds of gateways. The poet begins by glorifying the hills and cottages that haunt our imagination, as they possess an elusive quality. So wrote W.H. I wonder what Spenderwould have made of the new giant wind turbines spread around our countryside here in South Scotland. The Room Above The Square poem by Stephen Spender. Stephen Spender’s poetry is not as widely known or read as it once was (far less studied), and he has been somewhat eclipsed in the popular consciousness by his fellow ‘poets of the thirties’, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. It's tenuous. Yet the pylons are not presented as entirely unnatural: they are likened to girls, albeit unnaturally giant ones, but the power they contain is referred to as ‘lightning’s danger’, suggesting the natural electricity of the earth that man has harnessed and conveyed via the pylons. You see the towers at either end? Having trouble reading this image? Arriving at last - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. We live in another world, the world of pylons, now. Secondly, though they are static, their energy is kinetic and therefore shown to be all-pervasive. Compare it with the following lines from Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”: Quivering within the wave’s intenser day, The poet ends the poem on optimistic note reconciling two hitherto divorce entities :Nature and Science.
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