Kamis, 14 Juli 2011

Analysis of a Poem 'The Play Way' by Seamus Heaney


Sunlight pillars through glass, probes each desk
For milk, tops, drinking straws and old dry crusts.
the music strides to challenge it
Mixing memory and desire with chalk dusk
my lessons notes read : teacher will play
Beethoven’s concerto number five
and class will express themselves freely
in writing one said can we jive

when i produce the record but now
the big sound has silenced them. Higher
and firmer , each authoritative note
Pumps the classroom up tight as a tire

working its. Private spell behind eyes
that stare wide .They have forgotten me
for once. The pens are busy, the tongues mime
their blundering embrace of the free

word. a silence charged with sweetness.
breaks short on lost faces where i see
new looks. they note stretch taut as snares. they trip
to fall into themselves unknowingly

Paraphrasing
The first stanzas seemingly tries to describe the situation occur in the poems. The sunlight is coming and enters to the room through the glass maybe in the form of window. We can assume that it is probably in the morning. The kids have their foods on the table and ready to pay attention to the music about to perform.

The second stanza tells about the information that the teacher will play the instrument of Beethoven number 5 and the children are supposed to write something freely about the feel they are experiencing. A student asks whether they can enjoy the music by dancing. Then, the third stanza tells about the teacher feels in observing the students activity and expression when the record of the instrument is playing.

 In the following stanza, the teacher describes the students are very busy in the process of the writing. Their tongues are miming as if they are thinking about what should write on the notes. The last stanzas describes that the teacher is enjoying the way he or she teaching the students to freely write about their expression about the classical  music. Their silence is felt sweet. The teacher just want them to freely write and there is no target mentioned about it. 

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