“A FINE DAY”- 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.
The wind had no more strength than this,
That leisurely it blew,
To make one leaf the next to kiss
That closely by it grew.
Introduction of poet
“Since there’s no help,come let us kiss and part.”
Born: 1563,Hartshill,United Kingdom
Died:23 December 1631,London,United Kingdom
Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan Era. He studied in Oxford University. In 1590 he produced his, first book , THE HARMONY OF THE CHURCH. He had been intimate with the polesworth branch of the Folders family.
FAMOUS WORKS
1- “The Muses Elizium”
2- “The Baron’s wars”
3- “The Harmony of the Church”
Introduction of poem
” Clear had the day been from the dawn, All chequer’d was the sky.”
In the poem “A FINE DAY”,poet is describing the beauty of a day. The poem is all about the beautiful picture of a day.
ANALYSIS
“Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn veil’d hevean’s most glorious eye”.
In the first stanza we come to know that the day is very fine and beautiful.There are no clouds in the sky and the atmosphere is bright with the “Hevean’s most glorious light”,which is the metaphor for sun. The thin clouds are like scarfs for sun. It describes that when the wind blow besides sun the clouds are like scarf for sun.
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
The wind is blowing. The poet has personified the wind by saying that it has no strength. It is blowing leisurely.
“To make one leaf the next to kiss ,That closely by it grew.”
The calm force of the wind forces leaf to touch each other with patient. The leafs are touching each other with the love and poet used the word “kiss” to personify the leafs as a mother loves her child and kisses her. They make over love in this fine day.
CONCLUSION
A beautiful picture of the day was described in these poem. It’s all about a day is fine and wind is blowing leisurely.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Simile
~Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn
Personification
~The wind had no more strength than
~That leisurely it blew