James K. Baxter

James K Baxter expresses his thoughts and judgements using natural settings of his pasts. In Baxters poems, missile Show and Wild Bees, he comments ab come in his boyhood, personality and how it taught him in life. In the poem incorrect bees, Baxter talks slightly a detail when he and his friends go out to smoke a beehive 1 evening to get the honey from it. The very simple language makes it clean for the reader to understand Baxters thoughts and judgements. The illusion of a safe Ophelia shows us knowledge of the great Shakespearean tragedy.Where Ophelia, Hamlets girlfriend, went mad before drowning in a lake. Then he secerns the bees as they are working in unimpassioned industry. The language features such as parables and metaphors put him on the corresponding level as the reader so that it becomes easier for him to understand his thoughts and feelings. Similes like wild bees as (swift as tigers) embodies the way bees are known as creation fast and dart about. Also incl uded in this description is a comparison to tigers which gives the reader a feeling that the bees are fierce and hazardous. regent(postnominal) and meaningful metaphors such as their sentries saw us and the wounded toss also captures our imagination. The wounded sky creates the impression of the red sky and that he is waiting for dark, so they give the bounce smoke the bees out. After smoking the bees out of the hive, he realizes that it was a terrible thing to do and he believes that tragedies can exist on a small scale as well. still he lifts the scale high up when he talks about the destruction of Carthage by Rome and Troy by Greece. The poem arugula Show is about a fireworks display held on an Otago beach.In numerous of Baxters poems he describes his inner feelings using natural settings around him. The simile get laid grows like a crocus bulb in winter explains that heat is very tender in its early stages and is very vulnerable to ravish and therefore needs to be looked after and nurtured. The poem compares a rise and a love relationship, the words expressed in the poem implying that just now as a rocket dies out after its flight, a love relationship ends its circle, and when one cycle ends another one begins and so the cycle continues.Baxter talks how the crowd has trampled the grass under their feet and there is no place to move around. Two examples of alliteration-Fireworks Flare strident surf- fully describe the ambience of the beach. The simile like self-destroying flowers on slender stems is taken from nature again along with the ardent showers. Then Baxter talks about the Rosetta match being blind whereas it was the key to understanding a lost civilisation.The shoemakers last simile mad as the polar stagnate sums up the detail that the human heart is unpredictable just like the polar moon and cannot be understood, as it is illogical. Overall this essay has explained the meaning of the poems Wild Bees and Rocket show it has also give n allusions to some of the many language techniques such as metaphors, similes and alliteration that Baxter has used in his surroundings around him in his poems which have enabled him to recount experiences of his youth and past.