2.5 Money - Appreciation

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 2.5 Money - William Davies

Appreciation- 

Read the extract carefully and write an appreciation of the poem considering the following points.


✳️About the poet and the title

✳️The theme

✳️ Poetic style, Language, poetic devices.

✳️ Special feature 

✳️Values 

✳️Your opinion about the poem


 1.About the poet and the title-

The poem Money is written by William H.  Davies (1871-1940). He is Welsh poet and writer. This poem is taken from 'The Soul's Destroyer and Other poems". 

2.The theme-

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. 

3.Poetic style, Language, poetic devices-

 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, Alliteration etc.

For eg  - Onomatopoeia & Simile 

"And how their wives do hum like bees" - 

1. The word "hum"  represents a sound  of bee.

2. Poor men's wives work is directly compared with bees ,using the word like so the figure of speech is Simile.

The language used by the poet is very simple and easy to understand. 

4.Special feature-

The special feature of the poem is that the poet used  interjection... O! in the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. 

5.Values-

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 the  money.

6.Your opinion about the poem-

 I like the poem very much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life. 

Prepared by- Jyoti D. Walunj

Hutatma Rajguru Mahavidyalaya, Rajgurunagar

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