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Channel Firing BY

THOM AS HA RDY

That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment-day And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb, The worms drew back into the mounds, The glebe cow drooled. Till God called, “No; It’s gunnery practice out at sea Just as before you went below; The world is as it used to be: “All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters. “That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them’s a blessed thing, For if it were they’d have to scour Hell’s floor for so much threatening.... “Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need).” So down we lay again. “I wonder, Will the world ever saner be,” Said one, “than when He sent us under

In our indifferent century!” And many a skeleton shook his head. “Instead of preaching forty year,” My neighbour Parson Thirdly said, “I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.” Again the guns disturbed the hour, Roaring their readiness to avenge, As far inland as Stourton Tower, And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge. Analysis of the poem The poem contains an assortment of sound gadgets, for example, rhymes, sound similarity, and initial rhymes. All throughout the poem, William Blake created a quatrain by utilizing rhymes toward the finish of every single line. The poem additionally incorporates certain utilization of initial rhymes and sound similarity while strikingly depicting the extreme situation of war. To start with, the poet utilized certain initial rhymes in pretty much every stanza of the poem. He made use of the "great guns" to feature the noisy sound of gunfire on the days and nights. In the fourth stanza, the expression "striving song" makes the nations' battle increasingly dynamic and exceptional as they attempt to make due through the war. Likewise, the writer put "warmer when" to portray his compassion toward the fallen soldiers in the grave from the viewpoint of a dead skeleton itself. Also in the eighth stanza, he stated "skeleton shook " to introduce the awful passing of many fearless men of the country battling for the wicked war. In the last stanza, "starlit Stonehenge" alludes to the time of Celtic clans and wars. It appears that the poet needs to underscore that fighting will consistently be there between humanity as war has been in each notable age.

Next, we can see loads of rhymes in each line, for instance, "unaware" and "window-square" in the first line. In like manner, the uses of rhymes right now just improve the substance of the topic yet, in addition, make it familiar for individuals to peruse. A few rhymes like "avenge" and "Stonehenge" incorporates an association between the utilizations. The thundering and terrible sound of gunfire

strike again to render retribution upon every military while the same things happen a huge number of years prior previously. To summarize, "Channel Firing" incorporates many sound gadgets to differentiate the feeling of its theme and importance. Rhymes and initial rhymes word usage are generally found while there are additionally traces of musicality and sound similarity in the poem. The writer utilizes them adequately to completely picture the staggering occasions of war and that it can even upset the peace of the dead lying in their graves....