Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century

Question: Discuss about the Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century. Answer: Introduction: The poem Ending by Gavin Ewart depicts love and its nature by raising various similarities to various factors(Ewart). The poem depicts the loss of hope for love and its nature from life is depicted by in-depth analysis. In the poem he reflects how suddenly love has disappeared from their lives, which one used to be a major part of life and reason behind living. The poet initially depicts his immense faith in love and its continuing endurance that it provides. He reveals that love provides him with warmth and kept his soul happy but it no longer exists. Initially the poet makes use of various imagery and compares love to congealing chop referring to the closeness couples enjoy in love(McLoughlin). Kisses are referred to as bird-pecks in the phase when love seems lost which once were similar to a curry. Kisses are referred to as bird-pecks moreover as they are provided in a hurried manner compared to previous experience in kissing. Holding of hands that used to pass electric shocks for the poet when in love are now referred to as moored barges. Fixed barges as they do not anymore express affection towards each other. Then the transformation in feet is referred to which earlier used to be fast but post losing of love is late and slow. There is no imagery used for feet. Eyes of the poet are now suffering from absence of power and imagery is drawn to electric connection. Eyes in times of love used to shine and would not close but recently they have been transformed too(Gifford). He refers to other body parts that previously provide happ iness had become non-functional. No sense of imagery is used for this phrase as well. At last he refers to romance which was once present was no more there and had vanished away. The poem Ending is regarding lost love relationship, the tone of the poem is rather personal in nature(Wright). The poem is written according to second persons point of view which increase understanding amongst its audiences. The transformation from being in love to the lost relationship in love is phenomenal in nature. The poem depicts vibrant and passionate lovers in a vivid nature. All lines of the poem depicts love, warmth and a sense of tingling. Any person can feel joy from the poem as it depicts intricate moments(Flynn). Passion for his lover is shown in his expressions in the lines hot as curry, electric charges and transmitted joy. On the other hand feeling of coldness is included in words as, bird pecks, Lie inert, reserved cold and coy and victims of a power cut. The coldness is found synonymous to that of a dead person giving it a feeling of lifelessness. The coldness haunts the speaker which is demonstrated in his multiple expressions which he mentions of the cold he experiences. The combination of the feeling of heat coupled with the cold feeling provides contrast of feeling and the poets in-depth understanding of passion. The rhythmic lines with one describing passion, love and the other describing loveless feelings is done is a paring way. Various images of love described by the poet denotes that the feeling of love has not been forgotten by him(Brownjohn). His tone also depicts the feeling of absence of love which pains his heart. In the end when the speaker says at last that the love has GONE AWAY, it shows his frustrations and disappointment. Works Cited Brownjohn, Alan.Collected Poems: 19522006. Faber Faber, 2014. Ewart, Gavin.Selected Poems 1933-1993. Random House, 2012. Flynn, Pierce Julius. "Waves of semiosis: Surfings iconic progression."The American Journal of Semiotics5.3/4 (2008): 397-418. Gifford, D. (2009). Literature and World War Two.The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature, 88-102. McLoughlin, Kate. "Muddy Poetics: First World War poems by Helen Saunders and Mary Borden."Women: A Cultural Review26.3 (2015): 221-236. Wright, Kit.Hoping it Might be So: Poems 1974-2000. Faber Faber, 2011.