Q: Write the substance of the poem ‘Asleep in The Valley’.
A: Arthur Rimbaud, the boy poet, in
his antiwar poem ‘Asleep in The Valley’ has depicted the pity of war by using
the sonnet form. In a perfect lyric, the poet has set up a picture – perfect background.
A slow stream flows in a small green valley leaving silvery shore on the bright
grass. The sun beams from the mountain top fill the hollow place.
A young soldier is
sleeping having been open – mouthed. He has kept his hand on a fern – pillow stretching
his body on bushes and plants. He is looking pale in his green sun soaked bed.
The child like
innocent soldier is sleeping blissfully keeping his feet among the flowers.
Nature is keeping him warm else he may catch cold.
The humming insect
will not disturb him in his eternal sleep as the soldier is actually dead,
having been killed by bullet.
Thus the whole poem comes to the end with a rude shock
expressing the futility of war.
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