Why did the poet tell nature to keep the soldier warm?
Answer:
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud is the writer of the poem, “Asleep in the valley”, he
feels tenderness towards the dead soldier. He prays to nature to save his body
from the growing cold. Winter here is a symbol of death. The poet knows that
the soldier is already dead but he wants his readers to wait until the last
line of the poem to reveal this important detail. And that’s why he uses the
word “catch a cold” for the meaning of the vocabulary, alluding to the
contraction of the common respiratory tract. So the poet told nature to keep
the soldier warm.
What
techniques did the poet use to focus on the aftermath of the war?
Answer:
- ‘Sleep in the valley’ is undoubtedly a war poem. But the post-war influence
is centralized by the poet’s poetic tactics. The poet uses subtle techniques to
make the war-torn valley intolerable. The poet talks about many things like
death, war, and life through this poem. For the most part, however, he prefers
to focus on the life he has saved since the war began and after the
destruction. Here the poet's dilemma is to choose death or life and he has
chosen life. But with choice comes the inevitable threat of death. The poem
engages during a dialogue between life and death and uses ‘sleep’ to
incorporate both to supply the most symbolic of the poem. As we can see in this
poem, war is a symbol that gives birth to endless suffering in human history.
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