"A FINE DAY"-MICHAEL DRAYTON

Poem :
Clear had the day been from the dawn,
All chequer'd was the sky,
Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn
Veil'd heaven's most glorious eye.
All chequer'd was the sky,
Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn
Veil'd heaven's most glorious eye.
The wind had no more strength than this,
That leisurely it blew,
To make one leaf the next to kiss
That closely by it greav
Introduction of poet:
"The mind is free, whateer afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can." --"Michael Drayton"
MICHAEL DRAYTON was an English poet of Elizabeth Era. He has first published poem of spirituality with richness of expression.
BORN :1563,HASTISHILL,ENGLAND
DIED : 1631,(AGED 68), LONDON , ENGLAND.
NOTEBLE WORKS : "THE MUSEUM ELIZUM"
"POLY -OLBION.
ANALYSIS:
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment"
A Aine day is simple poen about a day which is almost perfect and eightline poem and a poem with lucid language and simple explanation .The poem has two stanza and both alhave Tha beautiful picture of a day.
In the first line of the poem the poet says that the day is absolutely flawless moving further to the second line the poet says that because of slanted rays the sky looks as if it is chequered.
Third line of the poem poet says thin clouds which are forming cobweb on the sky. The poet has presonified the wind by saying that it has no strength it is blowing leisurely . The clam force of the wind forces leafs to touch each other with patient
The poem has various poetic devices like simle , personification and mentaphors with ornamental lauguage.
CONCLUSION:
In this simple poem we come across the fact that poet was extremely fond of nature and through this poetry the poet showcase his experience in the field of nature poetry with minimum of exaggeration maximum effect is produced.
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