Money Appreciation of the Poem

 Appreciation of the Poem

Money

1. About the Poem, Poet and Title: ‘Money’ is a poem written by William.H Davies, a Welsh poet and writer.  He has spent a significant part of his life as a tramp. He was a peddler and street singer in England. ‘The Soul’s Destroyer and Other Poems’ is the first volume of his work.

The poem tells us about the rich man who wants to be a poor man to find out real happiness in life. The poet tries to highlight the real nature of human being. It brings out the real and fake faces of human being. 

 2. Theme: The poem tells us about the rich man who wants to be a poor man to find the real happiness in his life, it is when we do not have money or have lost our money. We realize how important the money is; he has true friends though they may be few but helps each other.

3. Poetic style/Language / Poetic devices used in the poem: "Money is a poem of five stanza of having four lines in each stanza. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abcb. It is the same for each stanza, The poetic devices used in the poem are inversion, Simile, Repetition, Onomatopoeia and Antithesis.

4. Special features / Novelties / Focusing elements: The poem has five stanzas of expressing experience of the poet and anyone at the time when he does not have money. It is very suggestive He comes to know that they are very few people to be honest to the friendship.

5. Message / Morals in the poem: It is a message of the poem that the rich people must know the poor life. When they lost their prosperity, it would be fine and can deal with condition. My many friends proved untrue. It means that his all friends are never sincere with him. They are not friends in all condition

6. Your opinion about the poem:  I think that the message given by the poet through the poem is very important about the real friends. Some people think their friendship in terms of money and material possessions.