Analysis of two poems; Prayer Before Birth and Easter Monday Essay

Analysis of two poems Prayer Before Birth and easterly MondayIn this essay I will be analysing two poems. both poems reflect uponthe theme of war. I will be analysing them through their meanings,forms and visual aspect how the poets use language to express their ideas andfeelings. I have decided to get word at the poems Prayer Before Birth byLouis MacNeice and Easter Monday by Eleanor Farjeon.Louis MacNeice was born in 1907, he died in 1963. His mother died whenhe was spring chicken and her death got to him deeply. He studied at Oxford andwas one of a assemblage of poets here who became famous. He was intenselyaffected by the political events of the 1930s and also by the SecondWorld War. This poem is about an unborn child praying that it shouldbe born into a good world. The only rhythm which provides images ofthis good world is verse number three and the images of goodness arlinked to nature water, grass, trees, sky and a white light to holdhim. All the other verses are fille d with images of a world ofhostility, repression, amazement and many of them refer to thingsthat ...