Impression de Voyage

This meter view De Voyage by Oscar Wilde is in the sonnet form ABBA-ACCA-DEFFED. All in all though it really is just about the voyage, the poet took everything into account. The 14 lines stanza of the poem is composed in iambic pentameter and with a complex rhyme scheme. The Poet uses sounds in the sestet at the end. The imagery is nice (sapphire/opal/ carmine sun upon the sea). in that location is the imagery of nature, sea and ship. Wilde presents ship imagery by dint of various images wish well steep prow, hoisted sail, the mast, creek and the stern. All these images symbolize a voyage or a journey perhaps a journey from life to death. get off actually symbolizes refuge and sea is the symbol of danger. The color of the sun is red and it is going to set in the west. This image of red sun upon the seas to baby-sit symbolize lifes journey towards death. Lycaons snowy blossoming is also intend death and sterility. At the same instance the poet is mentioning the images eyesha de strewn hills, blowing fair wind, blue lands, and olive grove, they all symbolize life. The use of auditory images flapping of the sail, the wind was blowing, ripple of the water, ripple of girls jest, these create aural impressions, symbolizing life, activity and energy.Thus life has put with death by using differentiate images. The poet has used different colour in to describe the beauty of nature. Nature meant many things to the wild-eyeds. This poem is as adjust of Romantic beautify painting as of Romantic nature poetry. Romantic nature poetry is essentially poetry of meditation. Oscar Wilde has romanticized the nature in this poem. The landscape of the sea and the sky/ burned like a heated opal through the air, establishes temporal and spatial distance between the enthusiastic visitant and the fabled Greece of myth and romance.The sapphire/ blue color of the sea is juxtaposed with heated opal/red sky. Blue color is the color of heaven. It is the color of symmetrical ness and impartiality (being the color devoid of all heat). It is the color that symbolizes Peace, tranquility, cold, calm, stability, harmony, unity, cleanliness, order. duration red is the color of fire. It symbolizes the extreme of activity, Excitement, energy, resentment, love, desire, speed, strength, power, heat, aggression, danger, fire, blood, war, violence, and all things intense and passionate.The colors symbolizing peace and tranquility have juxtaposed with colors symbolizing aggression, passion and danger. According to Empidocles theory of plurality psyche is the mixture of opposites. Good and freehanded both exist together in the ball Thus Wilde has brought the contrasting images together in order to show plurality in life. The repetition of the words The flapping of in the lines 10 and 11 shows the balance between opposites which exist in nature side by side. The tone of the poet is bleak and mood is of excitement and enthusiasm.This poem could have been written by maestro Byron, because it is his style that Wilde copies. In this poem we have got the topic of Greece as a fabulous place. It seems that in Impression De Voyage, the French Impressionism term in the title appears misplaced, for in establishing a fab setting (by mentioning Zakynthos, Olive grove, Ithacas cliff, Lycaons snowy peak and hills of Arcady), Wilde abandons any attempt at picture impressions instead he describes a voyage to Greece, a return to the world of the flower-strewn hills of Arcady.It can also be considered that the title of this poem misleads, for a exposition of the voyage (including the ripple of girls laughter at the stern) supersedes the effect of short experienced fleeting images. In the final line I stood upon the filth of Greece at last the speaker perhaps experiences an imaginative voyage into the mythological past.