Henry Derozio To the Moon | A Critical Analysis
Henry Derozio To the Moon | A Critical Analysis
Henry Derozio To the Moon | A Critical Analysis
‘Sonnet to the Moon’ is an exceptional nature poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. In this poem, nature does not stand as a source of joy and peace as is seen in the poetry of English romantic poets. Instead, in this poem, nature is seen as a source of sorrow and grief. The whole poem, figuratively, is a pathetic fallacy, because human capacities and feelings are attributed to a natural object, here to the moon. The moon reflects or signifies nothing of its own but of human plight on the earth.
The poet Derozio begins the poem addressing to the moon that it wanders through the sky like a ghost or an evil spirit that commits a dreadful deed in the darkness of night. The face of the moon is full of marks of sadness. While its temper is sad and it breaks down in despair, it gets no shelter to take rest. Only the night welcomes it and offers repose (rest). But it can not have rest as the light of the sun reflects on it. Then its hope of taking rest flies away and instead the thought of sadness surrounds her.
In the last six lines, the poet turns his imagination and says that the moon is too near to the earth to see the birth of joy on the earth. And it gazes on the earth and sees that the earth is inundated not with joy but with sorrows, sufferance and pain which touch the heart of the moon. In other words, the moon also feels the sorrows of the human being. Then its face becomes pale as it shows sympathy with the misfortune of human being.
The above analysis of the poem shows that as a nature poem it is an exception from the traditional nature poems. It shows not nature but human conditions on the earth. When human feelings or states are attributed to any natural objects with a parallel to the human condition in society it may be called poetic parallelism. And so is the poem.
It is a sonnet of the Petrarchan type. Like Derozio’s other poems, it is not easy and simple in language. There are some terms and phrases in it which are not easy to make out the real meaning. The sentences are compact but full of meanings. Its imageries are highly poetic and charming. In this poem, there is an alliterative phrase as ‘deed of darkness done’.
To sum up it may be said that this poem both in matter and manner is a derivation of Henry Derozio. 0 0 0
Henry Derozio To the Moon
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N. B. This article entitled ‘Henry Derozio’s ‘Poetry’- A Critical Analysis’ originally belongs to the book ‘Indian English Poetry Criticism‘ by Menonim Menonimus. Henry Derozio To the Moon
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