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Essay on Intro to poetry-2
The Cuckoo Song on p. 289 of the Norton text is the song of summer was first published on 1240. In it the poet embraces the cuckoo's song and other signs that summer are here. This song describes how the sweet voice of the cuckoo brings joy and heavenly bliss to the lives of people. The cuckoo sings for himself and though places and destinations change, the voice remains the same. The cuckoo thanks God for blessing him with such a sweet voice and continues to sing for himself and bringing joy to the lives of people around him.
Land-dwelling songbirds such as the cuckoo, found primarily in Old English and Early Welsh poetry; the blackbird and cuckoo, found primarily in Early Irish poetry; and sea birds found primarily in Early Irish and Old English poetry reflect an aspect of the essential value which each culture ascribes to its relationship with nature, with internal and external vision, and with man's proper place in the natural order of the cosmos. But in old English the cuckoo's song, was interpreted as sad and full of sorrow, seems to be a signal to leave the land, a place of communal living and kinship, a place where people would naturally be expected to form bonds, in favor of the sea, an element in which man is an intruder.
The poem I Sing of a Maiden is a Christmas poem written in 15th century by Anon. The "incremental repetition" by which this song is built up is similar to that found in the popular ballads.
The reason behind the “lyrics” is that they are on firstly basis songs and secondly in lyrics there is either the first or the last stanza repeating itself and rhyming like a song like we can see in The Cuckoo Song ...............
