1. Why have the whispering sound of the leaves and the cool shade of
the colonnade disappeared?
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Answer:
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Explanation:
B. Hutchings
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The Poplars are fell’d, farewell to the shade
And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade,
The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves,
Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.
Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view
Of my favourite field and the bank where they grew,
And now in the grass behold they are laid,
And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
The black-bird has fled to another retreat
Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat,
And the scene where his melody charm’d me before,
Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.
My fugitive years are all hasting away,
And I must e’er long lie as lowly as they,
With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head
E’er another such grove shall arise in its stead.
’Tis a sight to engage me if any thing can
To muse on the perishing pleasures of Man;
Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see,
Have a Being less durable even than he.
‘The Poplar-Field’ has always held its place as one of Cowper’s best-known poems. It was first published in January 1785 in the reputable and widely-read pages of The Gentleman’s Magazine, where his ‘Epitaph on a Hare’ had appeared the previous month. Cowper at this time was, he told William Unwin, in the habit of submitting poems in pairs: ‘As fast as Nichols prints off the poems I send him, I send him new ones. My remittance usually consists of two, and he publishes one of them at a time.’1 Cowper regarded the prestigious Gentleman’s Magazine as ‘a respectable repository for small matters, which when entrusted to a Newspaper, can expect but the duration of a day.’ ‘The Poplar-Field’ did indeed last more than a day.2 The European Magazine picked it up in 1789, and The Gentleman’s Magazine reprinted it after Cowper’s death.3 It was first included in Cowper’s collected Poems in 1800, in a version that incorporated revisions Cowper made for his Entry Book and for the Manners Sutton Collection manuscript.4 I still recall being presented with this revised version as a ‘poetry appreciation’ exercise in the fourth form of my Hammersmith grammar school. This was not the most propitious circumstance in which to encounter my first Cowper poem, and I suspect that the somewhat jejune outcome of my labours failed to brighten up my hard-pressed teacher’s day. Still, the experience must have made some impression, as lines from it still come first to mind if I am asked for a Cowper quotation.
Some of the reasons for the poem’s memorability are readily apparent. ‘The Poplar-Field’ is accessible, easy to read and to sympathise with. It has immediacy and liveliness, deriving from its largely anapaestic rhythm (which gives it a dance-like feel), strong but economical scene-setting and attractive sound quality. ‘Liquid’ and ‘lilting’ were probably the kinds of words expected of a juvenile poetry appreciator in the 1960s to describe the succession of ‘l’ sounds varied with shifting vowels in the opening lines: ‘fell’d’, ‘farewell’, ‘cool colonnade’, ‘play no longer’, ‘leaves’. Higher marks may have been the happy reward for those able to observe that Cowper matches his principal alliterative scheme with a recurrent pattern of voiced and unvoiced ‘s/z’ sounds (‘poplars’, ‘whispering sound’, ‘winds’, ‘sing’, ‘leaves’, ‘Ouse’, ‘bosom’, ‘receives’), and supports both with more subdued echoes, such as ‘whispering … winds’ and ‘bosom … image’. Best marks of all, perhaps, awaited any pupil able to show how Cowper matches sound patterns to meaning, so that the poetry is not merely vaguely descriptive or onomatopoeic but expressive of a relationship between language and the experience being evoked. The ‘whispering sound’ in line two is the result of the ‘winds’ of the next line, the repeated ‘w’ asking the reader to exhale in consonance. ‘Whispering’ and ‘wind’ share the same following vowel, which is then echoed in ‘sing’, itself part of the consonantal pattern that includes the phrase ‘whispering sound’. The phrase ‘cool colonnade’ juxtaposes an architectural metaphor for the line of poplars and the effect felt by whoever once strolled or lingered beneath them. ‘Cool’ differs from the first syllable of ‘colonnade’ by no more than a change in vowel length, so the adjective flows euphoniously into its noun as readily as the colonnade bestowed its pleasing shade.
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Answer:
Because human spoiled all the trees and disapperaed them.