Nature and Humanity through Poetry Analysis

Nature and Humanity through Poetry Analysis

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Analysing Life and Death, Nature and Humanity through Poetry
Margaret Atwood’s, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” is a poem rooted in both realism and symbolism. Atwood’s recollection of a son’s drowning death is essentially paired with the natural irony of water, nature, life and death. In other words, the poem tells the true story of a mother’s yearning to comprehend the life that was lost by water but also the parallels drawn between nature and that life lost. The poem was eloquently crafted to portray a mother’s blind grief and lack of comprehension of the loss of a love one through stunning figurative language: personification of Earth’s most natural parts, similes and metaphors. In the journal article, “On Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems”, Gayle Wood reflects on the symbolism and realism exhibited in Atwood’s poem. She wrote that the tone in the poem was “hotly maternal” and that it is “the rendering of the momentous and inhuman occasion juxtaposed with the bare, earth smelling bones of human grief.” In summary, Margaret Atwood writes symbolically using the beauty and grace of nature through several mediums of figurative language in order to effectively express her own human comprehension of the natural death of a loved one.
Throughout the poem, it is apparent that Margaret Atwood is determined to portray the life of her son through the lens of natural beauty. Even in death, her son’s moments were authentically human and natural. Through the description of his death, the descriptive language and similes that define his final moments are uncomfortably humane and beautiful. For example, at the end of the poem, Atwood writes “There was an accident; the air locked-he was hung in the river like a heart.” (Atwood, 16-17) This simile exudes a sense of belonging in a beautiful part of nature, one that gives life, even in death. In other words, the water that gave her son life is the location she depicts him as remaining, like a heart, which is also vital to life. Although the imagery is depicting the reality of her son’s death, it is also stunningly beautiful and gut-wrenching simultaneously. Line nine reads, “he swirled with ice and trees in the swollen water”. Although tragic and heart-wrenching, the descriptive imagery is eloquently written and the use of the word “swirled” personifies his death and creates a sense of grace in his last moments.
Another stunning parallel utilized by Margaret Atwood is the constant connection to the “river”. The river is a medium, one that symbolizes both the uncertainty of life and the unfamiliarity of death. The river is used to symbolize the unpredictable journey of life, one that ultimately starts with life and ends with the inevitable, natural death of every human. In essence, Atwood is showing the fragility of life and the tragedy of death through the unpredictable nature and beauty of water. In the beginning of the poem, Atwood writes that her son navigated the “Dangerous River of his own birth” (Atwood, 2). In the fourth line of the poem, she goes on to write how her son went onto a “Voyage of discovery”, and later writes that “His feet slid on the bank, the currents took him”. (Atwood, 7-8). This progression is symbolic of the journey of life but is utilizing the nature of a river to do so. To clarify further, birth is dangerous and uncertain, which could be symbolized by a river. The journey on a river is one of discovery and blind ambition, which is essentially symbolizing the life of her son before his impending death. Lastly, the exact thing that birthed him, led him through his life, would eventually “take him” or be his death. All three of these personified steps of life are expected, natural, beautiful and terrifying.
Through the use of figurative language, Atwood is depicting the natural course of her son’s life, through the observation of nature itself. Descriptive language is utilized throughout the entire poem to add a sense of humanity and grace to the pain and agony she is experiencing as a result of the foreign concept of the drowning of her beloved son. Through the use of beautiful imagery, Atwood is able to comprehend the natural cycle of birth, exploration of life and death of her son. Atwood is analysing the pain of a mother alongside the beauty of nature and drawing parallels between life and death, nature and being authentically and unapologetically human.

 

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