ENTRY 6：Reponse to Beginning by James Wright

This poem is very distinctive towards its language and style. In terms of its language, James Wright uses very beautiful but also natural words, delivering a very strong image. In the poem, the words, such as moon, drop, feathers, fields, dark wheat, still, wings, tress, slender women, shadow, step, lean, describe a very vivid image invoking the imagination of the audience with intense perception. In terms of its style, the poem tends to be plain, and with few rhymes. It lacks the complex structure but with simple and flexible style, there being no words limits in every single line, and no specific and regular words choice at the very end of each line. In this poem named Beginning, the poet initially depicts a very dreamlike scene where moon drops its features, the wheat listens and the moon’s young try their wings, all of which being very lovely and graceful. However, everything fine disappear when the slender women is gone, which indicates “my” dream is gone. Then, the wheat no longer listens but leans to the darkness and I also lean to my own darkness, and everything go back to their beginning, like nothing has happened. This poem delivers a sense of loneliness and the disappointment. The narrator weaves a very beautiful dream for himself at first, but when the reality comes, everything destroyed. The narrator leans towards his own darkness indicates he has to be alone, though it’s not what he has sought for.