ام بتال
09-01-2010, 03:11 AM
صباااااااح الخير
الله يسعدكم احتاج اسئلة موضوعيه على الجزئيه اللي تحت ضرووري بكرة
In W. H. Auden ballad "O What Is That Sound" (entitled "The
Quarry" in the 1958 Selected Poetry), probably because they start (as
does Monroe K. Spears in The Poetry of W. H. Auden, London,
1968 , p. 109) with the understandable but, we think, mistaken
assumption that the woman is the first speaker. This assumption
makes it difficult to explain why the first speaker kneels in stanza 4,
and why the second speaker remains so calm throughout. If we re-
verse this assumption, these difficulties are resolved in what can be
seen as a tale of double betrayal.
The man (who speaks in lines 1-2 of each stanza except the last,
which is spoken by the poet) is a traitor or rebel who is hiding out
with his mistress in a house on a mountainside; he is the "quarry"
wanted by the soldiers. Knowing himself wanted, he is alarmed at
the sound of troops in the distance, and his terror mounts as they
approach. When they leave the road (stanza 4), he kneels so as not
to be visible through the window. (In stanzas 2-4 his questions con-
cern what he sees through the window; in subsequent stanzas he is
dependent on the woman to report what she sees.) Having no reason
to think his hiding place known, the man tries to convince himself
that the troops are headed elsewhere--the doctor's, the parson's, or
the farmer's--but they are coming for him. They come directly; they
do not have to search or make inquiries; obviously, they have been
tipped off. Who has tipped them off? Clearly the woman, whose
vows have indeed been "deceiving," and who may be a secret agent. At
any rate, she has betrayed him, just as he has previously betrayed, or
plotted against, the government of his country. Her knowledge of the
situation accounts for her coolness, so markedly in contrast to the
hysteria of the man, and her purpose has been, by minimizing the
import of the situation, to hold the man in the house until the
soldiers can get there. (The drumming sound, she tells him, is "only"
the soldiers, and they are "only" performing "their usual manoeuvres.")
When it is too late for him to make a break, she leaves, so as not to
witness any violence.
Auden's poem concerns terror, menace, and betrayal in a world
where politics rule, not love. The initial obscurity of the situation
form is ballad:
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music
الله يسعدكم احتاج اسئلة موضوعيه على الجزئيه اللي تحت ضرووري بكرة
In W. H. Auden ballad "O What Is That Sound" (entitled "The
Quarry" in the 1958 Selected Poetry), probably because they start (as
does Monroe K. Spears in The Poetry of W. H. Auden, London,
1968 , p. 109) with the understandable but, we think, mistaken
assumption that the woman is the first speaker. This assumption
makes it difficult to explain why the first speaker kneels in stanza 4,
and why the second speaker remains so calm throughout. If we re-
verse this assumption, these difficulties are resolved in what can be
seen as a tale of double betrayal.
The man (who speaks in lines 1-2 of each stanza except the last,
which is spoken by the poet) is a traitor or rebel who is hiding out
with his mistress in a house on a mountainside; he is the "quarry"
wanted by the soldiers. Knowing himself wanted, he is alarmed at
the sound of troops in the distance, and his terror mounts as they
approach. When they leave the road (stanza 4), he kneels so as not
to be visible through the window. (In stanzas 2-4 his questions con-
cern what he sees through the window; in subsequent stanzas he is
dependent on the woman to report what she sees.) Having no reason
to think his hiding place known, the man tries to convince himself
that the troops are headed elsewhere--the doctor's, the parson's, or
the farmer's--but they are coming for him. They come directly; they
do not have to search or make inquiries; obviously, they have been
tipped off. Who has tipped them off? Clearly the woman, whose
vows have indeed been "deceiving," and who may be a secret agent. At
any rate, she has betrayed him, just as he has previously betrayed, or
plotted against, the government of his country. Her knowledge of the
situation accounts for her coolness, so markedly in contrast to the
hysteria of the man, and her purpose has been, by minimizing the
import of the situation, to hold the man in the house until the
soldiers can get there. (The drumming sound, she tells him, is "only"
the soldiers, and they are "only" performing "their usual manoeuvres.")
When it is too late for him to make a break, she leaves, so as not to
witness any violence.
Auden's poem concerns terror, menace, and betrayal in a world
where politics rule, not love. The initial obscurity of the situation
form is ballad:
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music