The Lake by Roger McGough
The Lake Essay 4
Do you think that the poet cares about the environment in ‘The Lake’? Give reasons.
My opinion is that the poet is very concerned about the environment. He seems unhappy that a once-beautiful lake is now something that people go out of their way to avoid. The cause that is hinted at for its degradation is pollution. In the water there are no longer fish but instead plastic bags and other litter that passers-by have dumped there. I think that the invention of the underwater pigs, who are now ready to eat human beings, is a warning to readers of the poem that our wasteful habits will have serious consequences. It is important that the first stanza of the poem alludes to the assumptions of Romantic poetry. The line ‘the sedge of course has withered’ refers to a line in a famous poem by the early nineteenth-century poet John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’: ‘The sedge has withered from the lake’. Romantic poetry typically celebrated the beauty of nature, or its magical, enchanting properties. Even its ugliness was redeemable, as in Keats’s poem. In McGough’s poem, the natural environment is completely beyond saving and the poet feels distressed by its bleakness.
"Roger McGough, ""The Lake Essay"" - Maandishi ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa ya kisasa." Taja sababu. Maoni yangu ni kwamba mshairi ana wasiwasi sana kuhusu mazingira. Anaonekana kuwa na huzuni kwamba ziwa ambalo wakati mmoja lilikuwa zuri sasa ni jambo ambalo watu hujitahidi kuepuka. Sababu inayotajwa kuwa ndiyo inayosababisha uharibifu huo ni uchafuzi wa mazingira. Katika maji hakuna samaki tena bali badala yake kuna mifuko ya plastiki na taka nyingine ambazo wapita-njia wametupa huko. """Nafikiri uvumbuzi wa nguruwe wa chini ya maji, ambao sasa wako tayari kula wanadamu, ni onyo kwa wasomaji wa shairi kwamba tabia zetu za kupoteza zitawa na matokeo mabaya." Ni muhimu kwamba mstari wa kwanza wa shairi hilo unarejelea dhana za ushairi wa kimapenzi. Mstari "The sedge of course has withered" unarejelea mstari katika shairi maarufu la mwanzoni mwa karne ya kumi na tisa na mshairi John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci": "The sedge has withered from the lake". Kwa kawaida mashairi ya kimapenzi yaliadhimisha uzuri wa asili, au sifa zake za kichawi na zenye kuvutia. Hata uovu wake ungeweza kurekebishwa, kama ilivyo katika shairi la Keats. Katika shairi la McGough, mazingira ya asili hayana wokovu kabisa na mshairi anahisi huzuni kwa ukosefu wake wa furaha.