Thoughts_After_Ruskin

Thoughts After Ruskin “Thoughts After Ruskin” by Elma Mitchell, is the poem that will be looked at for this essay. The poem will be analysed and commented on, with the aim of showing the use of skills that have been acquired during the “Reading Poetry” module. In “Thoughts After Ruskin”, one of the first things that stand out is the actual layout of the poem on the page. The poems structure consists of five sections, with a very distinct and longer seventeen line third section. This section is distinct, both in the layout on the page, as well as the actual grammatical style. It is enveloped at either end between two shorter, four to five line sections. The first section is the one that is most like a normal stanza, in that it begins by following a rhymed quatrain of abac, even though the syllable count is not consistent. “Roses” ends the first line; “soap” the second; and “noses”, the third, however, this pattern is not continued and is disrupted with the addition of the word “ places” which ends the forth line of the stanza. We go on to read a poem, women, line, section, ruskin, reader, fact, lines, very, thoughts, third, read, first, words, woman, stanza, speaker, sections, out, man, descriptions, being, after, actual, written, work, tone, things, tender, take, soap, shorter, second, roses, reading