1.
About the Title - The title of the poem MONEY is very
suggestive and reflective. It is a memoir based on life experiences when he
standing as a rich and a poor man. In this narrative poem he depicted real life
experience as the rich and the poor man in the context of money. So title is
apt.
2.
About the Poet - William H. Davies (1871 to 1940) was
a great poet of nature. He was popular poet and autobiographer. He was born on
July 3rd, 1871 in Monmouthshire, Wales. His many poems were based on his
experience as a tramp (homeless person) and many characters he encountered
along the journey. After several years of a wandering life at the age of 34 he
published his first volume, ‘The Soul’s Destroyer and other Poems’. His poems
highlight about his hardship during the life. He wrote two novels and
autobiographical work. His best known novel is Autobiography of Super Tramp.
3.
About the Poem - The poem tells us about the rich man
who wants to be a poor man to find the real happiness. It is when we do not
have money or have lost our money; we realize how important the money is. At
the end, the poet says that now he doesn’t have money, he has true friends
though they may be few.
4.
Theme - The theme of the poem is - Money cannot give you
eternal happiness, it means money and happiness have inverse relation. The
central idea of the poem delineates the split aspects of money. A rich man has
a lot of money and so many friends. But he wasn’t happy because all friends are
self-seeking and always thought about self benefits. On the contrary poor man
has no enough money and friends. But he was happy and his friends are true and
value the friendship not to money.
5.
Poetic Style - The poem is written in narrative form
which is a biographical. It is in first person narrative where the poet-speaker
narrates own experience. The poem consists of five stanzas of four line
sonnets. The poem uses an enclosed rhyme scheme with iambic tetrametere (It
refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet. The word
"tetrameter" simply means that there are four feet in the line). The
author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, money are
repeated.
6.
Language and Poetic Devices - Davies has taken
familiar subject from ordinary life and described them in a simple language
which is easy to read and understand. The imagery used is easy to understand
like – phrases and words like Came knocking all day at my door, dead man,
soundless trumpet, poor laugh and rich’s frown etc. The poet used normal
grammatical structure of language with the various punctuation marks. The poet
has decorated the poem by using ample figures of speech such as Inversion, Alliteration,
Simile, Repetition, Exclamation, Synecdoche and Onomatopoeia. The first stanza
and last stanza comprises Exclamation which focuses on persona duel life
portion. The poem follows a different rhyme scheme for each stanza. But in each
four-line stanza (Quatrain) the ending words of lines two (B) and four (B)
rhyme with each other.
7.
Special Feature of the poem – The special feature
of the poem is a very simple subject but has deep bitter truth of human
realtionship. It relates the experiences and observations of human life. The
tone of the poem is positive and realistic.
8.
Message, Values and Morals – The poet gives out
the message that money and richness is not essential for happiness. Money
invites many false and selfish people in our life. So happiness lies in having
true and real people in life. The poet point out that poor man is really
wealthy in true sense because they had few but real friends. Though they
haven’t enough money, they are happy in their lives.
ICE BREAKERS
1) Discuss in the class about ‘Importance of money.’
Ans. i) Money
is used as capital in business
ii) It is used
by traders to fill up stocks
iii) To buy
necessities of day-to-day life
iv) Money helps to gain material pleasures.
v) Money is
necessary to satisfy basic needs
|
Money spent judiciously |
i) Donation for poor and
the needy ii) in educating children iii) investing wisely for
securing the future iv) Giving finical support
to poor people v) Give money to buy food to hungry person |
3) Make a list of the good qualities of your friend.
Ans.
i) Kind
ii)
Clever
iii)
Good tempered
iv)
Sensitive
v)
Calm
vi)
Humorous
vii)
Helpful
viii)
Smart
4) Share your views on ‘Money is the root of all evils’
According to me money isn’t evil on
it’s own. No inanimate object is evil on it’s own. Objects can only become evil
through our intentions. If you love money, you become a slave to it. So do not
earn money only for money’s sake. Greed of money is definitely the root of all
evils. Such greed leads to destruction of morality, good values and
sensitivity. Some people literally love money. So in that case money is the
root of all evils but for others who don’t have such greed money is just the
instrument of living good and secure life.
5)
Do you lend money to your friend? Give reasons:
|
YES |
No |
|
A friend in need is a friend indeed |
If the friend fails to repay the money, the friendship can
go sour |
|
My timely help will earn me his trust |
The friend might misuse my trust and misspend my money |
|
If I help him now I can expect him to help in my hour of
need |
I might have tough time convincing my parents to give me
money to lend my friend |
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