Louis MacNeice (external view)

Today I wanted to do my blog a little differently. I wanted to extend what I did on my essay paper into Louis MaccNeicce's "The Sunlight on the Garden". I wanted to read this poem through an external view so I have not read the biography yet, but plan to read it as soon as I am done with this assignment. I did this so that I would have no bias towards any information in the biography when I read the poem and so that I could see this strictly through an external view. I want to start by saying this poem is 24 lines long within four stanzas. There is anaphora in stanzas 1, 2 and 3. There is also enjambment in lines 1, 3 and 5 just in the first stanza alone. As I read the first stanza I get a sudden dark feeling that the sunlight is noo longer a happy moment but instead one that is capturing souls. "The sunlight on the garden/ Hardens and grows cold" (lines 1&2). The second stanza tells me that the feedome of these peopole is ending and all their happiness too. I see this in the lines that follow, "OUr freedom as free lances/Advances towards its end;" (lines 7&8). "We are dying, Egypt, dying" (line 18). I know have a sense that this could possibly be abut the Egyptian empire ending and taking down all of its people. "But glad to have sa under/Thunder and rain with you," (lines 21&22). This tells me that although this timke is ending, they were still very proud to have been a part of it. In conclusion, from an external view, I get that this poem is about the Egyptian empire is ending along with the proud people in it.