Write a paragraph describing the moon and also how much it is loved by the
people, especially children.in silver poem
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Walter de la Mare (1873 to 1956) was an English writer of fiction and poetry for both adult and children. In a poll conducted by The Bookworm programme in 1995 to find the Nation's favourite poem, his poem Silver was voted number 63 out of the top 100 poems. The poem was first published In a book of delightful children’s rhymes titled Peacock Pie, in 1913. This anthology has been republished several times, most recently by Faber and Faber in 2015.
'Silver' (1913) by Walter de la Mare
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
A moveless fish in the water gleams
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Imagery in the Poem 'Silver'
One of the delights of poetry is finding a particularly powerful image. Many early 20th-century poets prioritised this aspect of their creative writing by finding powerful images to stimulate the senses and imagination of their readers. The poem 'Silver' is notable for the exquisite visual imagery within the lines.
The moon is personified and characterised as female (note the use of the word she). The moon is slowly peering into every nook and cranny almost like a slow-moving searchlight. Nothing escapes her beam—the fruit on the trees, the casement lights of the buildings, the dog in the kennel and the doves in the dovecote.
The poem is subtly located in time and place - the 'harvest mouse' suggests the season and the implied location is rural - there are fruit trees, a dovecote, and a stream with fish. The ambience of the location is quiet and hushed - the dog and doves are sleeping, and the fish are 'moveless'.
Techniques used to create imagery in the poem include -
The repeated use of the word 'silver' - nine repetitions plus one 'silvery'. All has been transformed to silver by the moon - the fruit on the trees, the windows, the dogs paws, the doves feathers, the eyes and claws of the field mouse, the fish, the reeds and the water in the stream.
The literary stylistics device of the alliterated sibilant letter 's', which makes a hissing sound, encouraging the use of a hushed voice, consistent with the location of the poem at night. The effect that is produced emphasises the mysterious, almost uncanny, nature of the effect of a silver moon on all that falls under her light.
The extended metaphors. In lines 1-6; the moon is a female wearing silver shoes (shoon) to walk through the night, inspecting all in her path. In the lines that follow, the features of the animals and the fruit are not like silver - they have been transformed into silver by the moonlight.