'Louis MacNeice’s and Thom Gun’s poems Essay\r'

'Louis MacNeice’s and Thom Gun’s verses use the initial join to look at cede through and through babies’ eyes. They wait on us see that babies, unborn or newborn, argon living but powerless beings. They can imagine and feel but can non make decisions or changes in their lives. MacNeice’s piece is burdened with desperate invocations from the uterus for a chance to live epoch Gunn’s song takes on a luminousness st driveway towards a newborn’s admit to leave the comfortable and familiar womb.\r\nWritten in the ground level of a prayer, the â€Å"Prayer Before Birth” playresses graven image as its audience but the poet’s determination is re exclusivelyy to de prognosticate the horrors of abortion to the reader. The verse takes on a degraded smell of one who is veneer death excoriate. The effects of its timbre are make stronger through the use of the first person in the impotent unborn blow to dramatize the p articular that it is alive and not fall apartn a excerpt for its life. Each stanza repeats the fact that it has yet live. This set the reader into the loudspeaker’s deepest burden as it reveals its concerns.\r\nThe song in addition uses images associated with pains and fears the speaker faces to communicate its tone of deep depression. The first stanza shows us a minor’s nightmare of â€Å"bat”, â€Å"rat” and â€Å" body snatcher”; followed by equip handst of torture such as â€Å"walls”, â€Å"racks” and â€Å"drugs”; past criminal acts of â€Å"treason” and â€Å"murder”; men in authority as in â€Å"old men”, â€Å"bureaucrats” and â€Å"man…who thinks he is God” and finally the shiny description of the brutal act and the detachment of the speaker from its source of forgivingity. tout ensemble these depressive images are interrupted save in the third stanza, with a sense o f thirstiness and in ferventer tone, to experience life from kidishness (being â€Å"dandle”) to death (being guided by â€Å"a white light”). It brings images of nature and life and all that we take for granted.\r\nEven the song’s social system supports the tone. The long sentences and heavy-sounding talking to (â€Å"dragoon”, â€Å" circularize” and â€Å" ripy”) communicate a heavily laden heart. The poem moves slowly with increasing length at each stanza and that tells of a deepening sense of hopelessness. The sixth stanza is real short as if to communicate the end of the hope. The shoemakers last stanza’s lines shorten with each subsequent plea as if to signify the shortening time left.\r\nThe poet chooses speech communication that support the deeply burdened tone and molest the reader’s emotional response. This is especially so when an innocent unborn has been subjected various agents of abortion in the form of creatures of the night (â€Å"bat”, â€Å"rat” and â€Å"graverobber”), equipment of torture (â€Å"walls”, â€Å"racks” and â€Å"blood-baths”), criminal acts (â€Å"treasons” and â€Å"murder”) and unloving human (â€Å"lovers”, â€Å"beggars” and â€Å"bureaucrats”). They communicate uncaring, cold and relentless in achieving their ends without witness to the subject. Many rarely used heavy-sounding and multi-syllabus words add to the ominous mood as they â€Å"dragoon”, â€Å"dissipate” and â€Å"engendered” the speaker.\r\nAnd then the word â€Å"thistledown” also helps add the finality of the act as we regard the foetus as unattached weed just go purposeless and lifeless (â€Å"hither and thither”) to be [spilled] wish water into the drain. The use of the word â€Å"me” gives a picture of helplessness to be subjected to early(a) people’s direct ion (â€Å"think me”, â€Å"beyond me”, â€Å"live me”, â€Å" torture me”, â€Å"lecture me” and â€Å"hector me”). The sum effect of the outstanding play of words is designed to create the dark, troubled mood of one facing death sentence and to draw a response from the reader.\r\nOn the other hand, Gunn also uses the first voice but he gives the protesting baffle a less intense tone. His invention is to explain the baby’s first cry and he thinks that it is from its reluctance to leave an environment of credential and changeth for a strange and cold world. The poem carries an enraged tone of complains (â€Å"Things were different inside”)and warm tone of memories (â€Å"The perfect comfort of her inside”). handle the previous poem, the effect of its tone is made stronger through the use of the first person who shares its experience first hand. Yet unlike the first poem, the tone it carries is not as overwhelming as to evoke a respond from the reader for it hints that it is only temporal (â€Å"I may forget…”).\r\nGunn’s poem also uses images but those of contrasting scenes to communicate its objection to the changes. matchless can hear the warm and longing tone as the baby thinks of the snug and secure â€Å" joyful and padded” and â€Å"[the] perfect comfort of her inside”. Otherwise, the poem moves in exasperation as it\r\ncompares the â€Å"warm and flush and black” womb with a â€Å"rain of blood” and the discomfort of the â€Å" illumine” outside world, the exposed and tolerant â€Å"rustling draw back” and the changes that comes when â€Å"all time roars”. desire MacNeice’s poem, it also communicates a helpless baby in the midst of the situation it cannot change as it lies â€Å"raging, small, and red”. And it may continue to rage public treasury it forgets for it has no choice to the matter of w hether it wants to be born.\r\nGunn’s poem is designed to support the tone of protest through its fast-paced, easy-to-read rhythm and rhyme and its short and still sentences. These, as compared with â€Å"Prayer before line of descent”, give the effect of a less forceful albeit angry tone. Its pace slow down a weensy in the last two stanzas (with longer vowels †â€Å" relief”, â€Å"soon”, â€Å"womb” and â€Å"room”) as the child gets tired and slips into dreams of the familiar surrounding again.\r\nThe poem keeps the lighter tone and moves with ease through informal and colloquial language. Many of the words chosen in this poem refers to tangible objects as in â€Å"womb”, â€Å"bed” and â€Å"room”. The tone is also supported by choosing single-syllabi action words like â€Å"fall”, â€Å"ride”, â€Å"tuck” and â€Å"lie”. All those action words imply how quickly everything happens between birth and the baby’s sleep. Many words also demonstrate the drastic differences the baby has to endure at birth e.g. from â€Å"private” to a shared environment; from the â€Å"warm and wet and black” womb to a â€Å"lighted” room; and from â€Å"padded and jolly” to â€Å"rustling”. All these imply changes the baby needs to adjust to. and they are all temporal shock and the protest will not last even though the newborn may fight it… â€Å"But I won’t forget that I sorrow”. And eventually, all that is left of the memory of the womb may exist only in the baby’s dream.\r\nBoth poems revolve around the subject birth and give thought to life. The main difference is that MacNeice’s poem is meant to evoke a response or perhaps provoke the reader to action while Gunn’s poem only wants to share a response of a baby at birth.\r\n'