Have you guys read Discord In Childhood by D. H. Lawrence?
Please read below, its interesting and educating. Please do share with friends...
The poem opens with the poet telling us about an ash-tree
outside a house with terrible whips. The poem is all about the evil of
anger, and how destructive it can be. The wind was tamed by the whips
from the tree as a ship showing the painful days of childhood.
"Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips
And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s
Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously"
"Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips
And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s
Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously"
In line 5, the poet tells us about two voices within the
house disturbing the peace of the night. In anger, the voices arise
rendering causes upon each other in disagreement over something. The
voices begin to fight, one of the voices maybe the man bruised and
drowned the woman in a silence of blood."Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash
Whistling delirious rage, and dreadful sound
Of a thick lash booming and bruising,
Until it drowned the other voice in a silence of blood
Neath
The noise of the ash"
In the poem, the poet tries to tell us about what anger can
cause in the family. The children suffer a lot when their parents are
not in good terms as a result of anger. Disagreement at home between the
husband and wife can lead to demoralization, lack of love, break up and
death. Growing up in a home filled with anger and hate can destroy the
self-esteem and life of the children. Anger can destroy the self- esteem
of a child and it must dealt with for a home to stand.
Moses Chibueze Opara aka Mr. Humility
(a contemporary Nigerian poet and poetry analyst)
(a contemporary Nigerian poet and poetry analyst)