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

Analysis of 2 poems Prayer Before give and easter MondayIn this essay I will be analysing two poems. Both poems reflect uponthe theme of war. I will be analysing them by their meanings,forms and show how the poets use language to express their ideas andfeelings. I have unyielding to look 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 young and her death got to him deeply. He studied at Oxford andwas one of a group 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 more or less an unborn child praying that it shouldbe born into a good knowledge domain. The however verse which provides images ofthis good world is verse number three and the images of goodness arelinked to nature water, grass, trees, sky and a white settle to guidehim. All the other verses are filled with im ages of a world ofhostility, repression, distraction and many of them refer to thingsthat ...