How does Allen Curnow convey his struggles with the writing process?
How does Allen Curnow convey his struggles with the writing process?
As a journalist and a poet Allen Curnow might sometime suffers from lack of interests, inspirations and creations towards his job and project and this struggles are vividly convey in the poem “Continuum”. He might have struggles in finding new ideas and muse for his writing process. The poem “Continuum” might be an allegory for the process of him writing the poem and the continuity of poetic inspiration. The poem might be implying the sinking of his poetic capabilities and his creative struggles that causes him frustration and insomnia.
One of the way that the poet convey his struggles are through his language as it is very contradictory, which creates a sense of confusion and uncertainty. ‘The moons roll over and falls behind my house’ subsequently, he goes on to prove that ‘the moon does neither of these things’, the moon does nothing that he just describe before but he is talking about himself. He thought what he said before was not right and said that the moon does non of the things that he describe but the moon is actually him. This accentuates the poet’s disorganized state of mind and the comma between emphasizes the thought of the writer jumping from one idea to another, which furthermore emphasize the uncertainty. While the reader read the poem our mind would also get confused and bewildered, this mirrors the poet state of mind, as we are experience the same situation. Later, he then said that the “cloud” (might be representative of the poet’s mind) ‘which may depend on the wind or something’ wind is not dependable but the poet said his mind is depend on something that are not dependable, how can you depend on something that is not dependable? Which once more emphasize the incertitude both in the poet and the readers. This use of juxtapositions in the poem could suggest that Allen is unsure and unease of the world and poetry, he is struggling to find news ideas and creations as
As a journalist and a poet Allen Curnow might sometime suffers from lack of interests, inspirations and creations towards his job and project and this struggles are vividly convey in the poem “Continuum”. He might have struggles in finding new ideas and muse for his writing process. The poem “Continuum” might be an allegory for the process of him writing the poem and the continuity of poetic inspiration. The poem might be implying the sinking of his poetic capabilities and his creative struggles that causes him frustration and insomnia.
One of the way that the poet convey his struggles are through his language as it is very contradictory, which creates a sense of confusion and uncertainty. ‘The moons roll over and falls behind my house’ subsequently, he goes on to prove that ‘the moon does neither of these things’, the moon does nothing that he just describe before but he is talking about himself. He thought what he said before was not right and said that the moon does non of the things that he describe but the moon is actually him. This accentuates the poet’s disorganized state of mind and the comma between emphasizes the thought of the writer jumping from one idea to another, which furthermore emphasize the uncertainty. While the reader read the poem our mind would also get confused and bewildered, this mirrors the poet state of mind, as we are experience the same situation. Later, he then said that the “cloud” (might be representative of the poet’s mind) ‘which may depend on the wind or something’ wind is not dependable but the poet said his mind is depend on something that are not dependable, how can you depend on something that is not dependable? Which once more emphasize the incertitude both in the poet and the readers. This use of juxtapositions in the poem could suggest that Allen is unsure and unease of the world and poetry, he is struggling to find news ideas and creations as