Summary on the poem, "leisure"
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In this poem, 'Leisure', the poet William Davies is telling us about our hectic life. We have no time to admire the nature around us. Even we cannot spare a few moments to stand under the branches of green trees and enjoy the beautiful and restful shades of the trees.
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The poet says that man has everything except leisure. In his opinion man has entangled himself in responsibilities and worries. Man has no time to enjoy natural beauty around him. The poet laments that man of today cannot find any moment to see numerous beautiful scenes even in broad day light. He says the colourful budding flowers shine in the day like stars at night but man passes them without any interest in them.
He considers that man is devoid of “beauty’s glance”. Once, man would enjoy the beauty of Nature and everything would seem in harmony while in the company of Nature. But for the man of today, Nature has lost all it’s beauty. The poet creates a beautiful comparison between the rhythmic beauty of dance and the flowers and fields moving with wind. Once man found pleasure in the company of nature, today he is so preoccupied in his material needs that he cannot turn to nature. He diverts his attention from nature for worldly matters. He prefers wealth and material gains over treasures of nature. Robert Frost has put down the same in these words:
“The woods are dark, lovely and deep
But I have promises to keep.”
The poet expresses sadness over the loss of human faculty to appreciate beauty without any regard to financial or material gain but in this era of practicality and wealth focused individuals, the distance between man and nature is widening which is the cause of certain psychological and physical ailments which are being ignored presently.
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