“You find this ugly, I find it lovely”
The quote from above is the last line of the first stanza and it appears after the narrator lists a few events which may make some people feel uncomfortable if they were to take a stroll on the street described. Still, the narrator claims for him these aspects are positive and are something which he finds to be “lovely”. The last line of the stanza thus sets out to prove how different people can look at a single thing and see something which others may not even notice. This is later used as an argument to prove why every person’s opinion is valid because in reality, right and wrong when it comes to interpretation does not really exist.
“Where men hawk Death in a snowdrops’s breath
At a couple of shillings a sniff.”
The two lines close the poem “Snowdrops”. In this poem, the narrator analyzes drug use and how it can influence a person’s life. It also associated drug use with death and also, with poverty. As the last line states, drugs were extremely cheap, only a few “shillings” a dose and as such everyone could afford to buy them. In communities where poverty, death and disease were rampant, drugs were even more popular, many using them to forget the pain they were feelings. The drugs did little to reduce the number of deaths taking place in those communities but rather increased them, the narrator naming the drugs “Death in a (…) breath”.
“The crow's voice trembles down the sky
As if this nitrous flange of stone
Wept suddenly with such a cry;”
“Crow Country” is another poem in which the narrator analyzes the damage caused by the war. In this case, the war is seen by afar, from the eyes of a crow flying high in the sky. The initial belief is the crow is not affected by the war, protected by the distance. This however changes and eventually the crow starts crying as well, mourning those who have been lost. The crow could be used here as a symbol, symbolizing those countries and those people who decided they were not going to get involved in the war. The moved to other safe countries and they believed the distance will be a protection for them. Unfortunately, as the narrator points out, the distance did not protect them as they had to endure the pain in the end anyway.
