Simon Robert Armitage born May 26, 1963,British poet, playwright, and novelist whose poetry is attuned to modern life and vernacular language and has been regarded as both accessible and revelatory. His works were widely anthologized and have been broadly popular.
In 2019 Armitage became poet laureate of Great Britain.
Lockdown: Simon Armitage writes poem about coronavirus outbreak.Simon Armitage has written a poem to address the coronavirus and a lockdown that is slowly being implemented across the UK, saying that the art form can be consoling in times of crisis because it “asks us just to focus, and think, and be contemplative”.
the Boundary Stone,
that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,
His poem references Eyam’s boundary stone, which contained holes that the quarantined villagers would put their money in to pay for provisions from outside, and then fill with vinegar in the hope it would cleanse the coins. It also touches on the doomed romance between a girl who lived in Eyam and a boy outside the village who talked to her from a distance, until she stopped coming.
of the exiled yaksha sending word
to his lost wife on a passing cloud,
a cloud that followed an earthly map
of camel trails and cattle tracks,
The poem was also influenced by a scene in Meghadūta in which an exile sends reassuring words to his wife in the Himalayas via a passing cloud.
“The cloud is convinced to take the message because the yaksha, which I think is sort of an attendant spirit to a god of wealth, tells him what amazing landscapes and scenery he’s going to pass across. I thought it was a kind of hopeful, romantic gesture,” said Armitage.
LOCKDOWN :
Yes , we can relate our situation of corona and situation of plague time. Through this poem we get idea that how difficult time we passed last two years.
Today everyone is aware about words related to CORONA. Like quarantine, sanitizer, mask , social distancing and most important LOCKDOWN and CURFEW. This pandemic time not for gujrat and India but all over the world every country suffering from it.whenever we listen word lockdown we recalled our all memory of last two years in which we became part of not one but two lockdown.in first lockdown we can say everyone was suffered from many problems it's not limited to rich people and poor but every human being became part of this COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Because people never see such kind of situation in their entire life so they can't easily adjust in this.
In first lockdown everything was closed shops, malls, school, flight, train, theatre and business too and everyone sitting their home without going outside for many days.everyday cases of corona increase and people died more and more day by day.There was no solution for it except doing lockdown.Lockdown was difficult for all but mostly for those who came from another place to do work and stay on rent if they had no money then what should they were do without work and money, and vehicles has stoped so they have to stay on road and without shelters. Many people haven't enough food and money to survive, no doubt government helped a lot to poor people and many other NGO also provide grant,
many other well known personality given so much donation for poor people some of them adopted whole village and some took responsibility to transferred people one place to another. Rich people have also problem they have money but they don't have entertainment so they also feel bored from lockdown. That's all problems of society and many others also.
In lockdown students faced many problems regarding study and career. They also stay at home and study from there.but it was not possible for all because not everyone have phone and internet and some students parents also not aware about such technology so for them it might be a more defficult. Students of higher standard also miss their opportunities.
Very hardly one lockdown was completed and one by one everything was reopen but after the some months second waves of corona viruse came and suddenly second lockdown applied. This time corona and situation of people became more hard for people. Because symptoms of corona changed , who had influence of corona they can't breathe and they died. many people died everyday, during second wave and again school and everything was closed but condition of people became more dangerous and they died very quickly because there wasn't enough oxygen so. After the some months scientist find vaccine of covid. But there was still problem to patients very hardly second wave passed and many people was died in second wave. Because second wave is more difficult than first one.
Corona time was very bad time but during that period people used to stay with family members and they spend time together which not possible without lockdown because thare was no option from people without staying at home many people enjoying it. And many people used this time and give time to themselves also. In this way corona became helpful for those who don't able to spend time with their famili
“ That no matter how much time we think we have; at the end of the day, what I came to appreciate was that we simply don’t spend enough quality time with our families,"
Tomislav
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