What is the meaning of the poem 'blow bugle blow' written by alfred lord tennyson?
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Blow Bugle Blow Is an anti war poem by Alfred Tennyson who uses the sound of Bugle played before a battle to describe the impact of a war.
He requests the Bugle sound to be increased to maximum so that the elite people living in palaces can hear that a war was going on.
He cries for the dying soldiers and asks for increasing the volume of the Bugle sound so that it can echo in the entire society which is indirectly a reason of the war.
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The Summary of the poem
Explanation:
The poem is written on the theme of imagination and the echoes we leave when we die. It starts with the poet being at outdoor and looking across a valley and castle where the sunlight falls on the castle walls and the snowy mountains which are old and many stories are written regarding them. Light enters into the lake and a ferocious waterfall is makes a loud noise. A loud bugle song is heard across the valley, echoing until slowly they fade away and die.
The poet goes on to ask us to hear the bugle horns carefully, as they rise to a high pitch becoming thin and more distinct. He says that the horns that he hears are from Elf land, a place where elves like creatures reside. He believes that the valley is magical and there is a very thin line between the real world and a parallel universe, a world of elves and fairies, here. He goes on to say that with the bugle songs comes from the cracks of the mountains and the atmosphere replies to the songs with a purple tint on the sky reflected on the valley as the sunset dawns closer. He repeats to say the line “Blow, bugles; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
The sounds slowly fade away and he becomes philosophical. The echoes that had been fading away makes him prude over the echoes that one leaves after death, the memories, the achievements and so on which are, unlike the fading echoes, permanent. At last, he ends the poem by asking the bugles to blow to hear the notes. The bugles echoes again and finally fades away.
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