2.6 Money

 About The Poem

* The poem tells us about the real happiness and place of money in our life.

* It tells that the people realize importance of money when they lose it.

* It tells that money cannot help to purchase the happiness.

* It tells the difference between the fake friends and true friends.

* Use of poetic devices – Inversion, Simile, Repetition, Onomatopoeia, antithesis.

* 5 stanzas of set of four lines Rhyme scheme abcb daca efdf…

Paraphase:

FIRST STANZA:

* The poet tells here about his past when he was rich.

* He experienced the real joy when he became poor. He had many friends but fake one.

*Those fake friends used to come to him when they were in need(for money).

Poetic Devices –Repetition, Alliteration, Hyperbole

SECOND STANZA

* The poet compares himself with a child holding trumpet

but he does not know how to blow it. Though he was

having enough money, he could not get the real joy.

* He connects his grief as he assumes that the humanity is

no more (man is dead) in this false world.

Poetic Devices – Simile, Onomatopoeia, Metaphor.

THIRD STANZA

* The poet has been thinking of life and realized that

poor people are living happy life.

* Their wives are singing the songs happily as they are

appreciating the hardships of their husbands who

work from morning to night.

Poetic Devices – Inversion, Simile , Onomatopoeia,

Antithesis.

FOURTH STANZA

* The poet says here that whenever he has

seen poor people living their life happily, the

rich people become angry.

* So the poet thinks that the poor people

need not be rich and the rich should be

poor. Thus the rich will understand the pain

of the poor.

Poetic Devices – Antithesis, Inversion,

Alliteration.

FIFTH STANZA

* The poet regretfully admits here that

when he had money, he had many friends

but those were untrue (not sincere to him).

But now he is penniless, he has true

friends though they are few in numbers.

Poetic Devices – Repetition, Antithesis,

Alliteration.

*NEW WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS

Knock – strike a surface

Trumpet – a brass musical instrument

Hum – sing with closed lips

Bees – stinging insects

Frown – angry

* Appreciation of the Poem:-

       The poem "Money" is the poem taken from the famous poetic volume of W. H. Davies "The Collected Poem" published in the year 1916. The poet has an identity as Welsh Poet  and writer as he was born and brought up there. The poem deals with the theme that "the real happiness is not in being rich but the real happiness one must become poor" because the poet has an experience that whenever he had money he had many friends but they were interested in his wealth but after becoming poor he had very few friends but all of them are true. The poet realised that real happiness we can feel only when we become poor. 

       The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines each with the regular rhyme scheme where only second and fourth line rhyme with each other, thus the rhythm scheme is abcb. The poet enrich the poem with many figures of speech like Simile, Repetition, Inversion, Antithesis Onomatopoeia etc. The language used by the poet is very simple and easy to understand. The special feature of the poem is that the poet used the used interjection... O!" in the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. The moral of the poem is money may be very important but the most important thing in the life is real true friends which we can get only in poverty. So we must value people and not money. I like the poem very much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life.