Where are you going!
Hello my lovely friends I am again here on steemit platform with a new post my this post will be about a poem which is written by "W.H.Auden" and name of this Poem is "O where are you going".
O Where Are You Going
"O where are you going" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal when furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return.
"O do you imagine," said fearer to farer,
"That dusk will delay on your path to the pass,
Your diligent looking discover the lacking
Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?
"O what was that bird," said horror to hearer,
Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease?
"Out of this house"- said rider to reader,
"Yours never will said farer to fearer,
"They're looking for you"- said hearer to horror.
All he left the there, as he left them there.
Theme:
The poem is a dialogue between two imaginary persons personified as reader and rider. The rider is a bold and courageous person, ambitious to make his way through thick and thin. The reader, full of awe and reverence, tells him that the valley beyond is full of dangers and that heaps of dung and rubbish lie on his journey ahead, whose bad smell sickens and maddens the mind. The opposite force is working to discourage the traveller from going farther his path to The way to glory and success is vague and uncertain, but it can be paved and farther Fear and horror try to discourage the rider from going one pass through with courage and perseverance.