2.6 Money - William H. Davies Appreciation-

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2.6 Money - William H.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, and poetic devices.

✳️ Special feature 

✳️Values 

✳️Your opinion about the poem

1.About the poet and the title-

William H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. This poem is taken from 'The Soul's Destroyer and Other Poems". 

2. The theme-

The theme of the poem is true/real happiness, the importance of money, and true friendship. The poem tells us about the rich man who wants to be a poor man to find real happiness. It is when we do not have money or have lost our money, we realise how important money is. At the end, the poet says that now he doesn't have money, but he has true friends, though they may be few. 

3 . Poetic style, Language, poetic devices-

The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines each. The rhyme scheme of the 1 to 4 stanzas is 'abcb', and the last stanza's rhyme scheme is 'abab'. The rhyme pair of each stanza is poor-door, blow-know, light-night, frown-down, untrue-few, and O!-O!  The 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 the sound of a bee.

2. Poor men's wives' work is directly compared with bees, using the word like so the figure of speech is a 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 interjections... O! in the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. The type of the poem is motivational, and it tells the harsh reality of life. 

5.Values/ Message - 

The moral of the poem is 'Money cannot give you eternal happiness, Money is short-lived, and Money cannot purchase happiness and contentment. So we must value the people, not the money.

6. Your opinion about the poem-

I like the poem very much because this poem tells the harsh reality of life. It also teaches me that Money doesn't give you true happiness. 

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Prepared by- Jyoti D. Walunj

Hutatma Rajguru Mahavidyalaya, Rajgurunagar

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