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Personal Response To Kavanagh

Examples of this are in Advent, where he uses ' dreeping' to capture a dripping weeping quality, also in Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin, he uses made up words such as greeny and stilly. One of the greater merits in Kavanagh's poetry is his profound appreciation of the simple things in life and his ability to find the extraordinary things in what most people deem the ordinary things. The simple language he uses gives the poetry character because it is often influenced by his rural background. He talks about how love can be found anywhere and in everything. these poems mentioned they are also somewhat reminiscent, Kavanagh is telling of circumstances, which he lived in, and sometimes personnel thoughts. In Innishkeen road he comments on the bicycles going by and in The hospital he comments on the basins and cubicles he sees around him. ''In the same vain- of descriptions, in Inniskeen road, Kavanagh provides an impeccable depiction of silence:'. A Christmas childhood is fundamentally about the simple pleasures and amusement children get in general but most especially at Christmas time. To him this is what is of importance- it is made important only by the mind that is playing upon it. We can see from other poems that he had a love for rural life and the lower canal in Dublin seemed to be the closest to the country he could find in the city. Kavanagh can see remarkable and beautiful features of rather obtuse objects or quite dull and unremarkable things. I think his poetry oozes with personality and his capability of transforming such everyday objects into magical and beautiful things is incredible. In A Christmas childhood Kavanagh also mentions the names of his neighbours 'Lennons and Callans', which I feel, gives a sharper image in the mind. ''Descriptions which Kavanagh uses are often things that any typical person wouldn't even take note of, and could not see any relevance to it, let alone use it as poetry, such as in A Christmas childhood, he...