Analysis of two poems; Prayer Before Birth and Easter Monday Essay

Analysis of two poems Prayer Before Birth and Easter MondayIn this essay I will be analysing two poems. Both poems reflect uponthe theme of war. I will be analysing them through their meanings,forms and show how the poets use language to express their ideas andfeelings. I have dogged to look at the poems Prayer Before Birth byLouis MacNeice and Easter Monday by Eleanor Farjeon.Louis MacNeice was born in 1907, he died in 1963. His mother died whenhe was unripened and her death got to him deeply. He studied at Oxford andwas one of a group of poets here who became famous. He was intenselyaffected by the political events of the 1930s and overly by the SecondWorld War. This poem is about an unborn child praying that it shouldbe born into a good humanity. The only verse which provides images ofthis good world is verse number three and the images of goodness arlinked to nature water, grass, trees, sky and a white light to guidehim. All the other verses are filled with images of a world ofhostility, repression, distraction and many of them refer to thingsthat ...