Ambulances

Ambulances are a symbol of worries, chaos and uncertainty of human life. The theme of life and death is presented in this poem. The subject of this poem is crystallization of the realities of life in the face of death. Death is the biggest reality of this world. Life is a combination of known and unknown miseries and issues of life. We can hardly tackle known issues of life. So the unknown issues and problem of life are beyond human capacity.

The Whitsun Weddings

The Whitsun Weddings is a deceptively leisurely sounding poem in eight ten-line stanzas. The title refers to the British tradition of marrying on the weekend of Whitsunday (the seventh Sunday after Easter) the end of May/ beginning of June, to take advantage of the early summer “bank holiday” or long weekend. The rhyme scheme (ababcdecde) and meter (the second line of each stanza has four syllables; all the others have ten syllables each) are highly structured but unobtrusive. The use of caesura throughout the poem relates to the train stops that occur on his journey, in the last stanza the poem ends with a full stop, this highlights that he is at the end of his journey. The train journey can also be seen as a metaphor for how the newly married passengers on board have taken a right of passage and they have changed.

The Whitsun Weddings