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The ‘yellow palm’ is about the poet person walking throughout the main road in Baghdad and remarks on what he perceives. In doing and so the poem indicates war and peace. Showing on the previous and long term which are linked with reconciliation and peace. The theme of the poem seems to revolve around along with yellow, actually in the title of the poem yellow is roofed.
Yellow could mean many things, completely happy – a sunny day. We relate yellow with negative issues also too, such as the yellow-colored of a dead white person; decaying pores and skin. This affiliation is what I believe the author has decided to include in this poem. The effect of ‘dead’ really is pictured when I read this composition. The poem is set in regular six-line stanzas, switching longer and shorter iambic lines, and an abcbdb rhyme scheme.
The choice of this simple and traditional form is usually reassuring and helps to make the content material accessible. For me it is recommending that you can generate a foreign metropolis and tradition familiar, and allows time to reflect on the disturbing articles and images. Each stanza also includes a primary event in the poets journey Structurally the poem reads the voyage of the poet as it goes through the various stanzas. The line ‘I strolled down Middle east street’ is usually repeated in the beginning of every stanza.
This give the poem a sense of rhythm and suggests simply how much goes on because one street, and the voyage of the poet from past and future. The language with the poem uses traditional Arabic references, just like ‘the churl sun’; a negative metaphor. This can be suggesting that the sun is naturally big and hot, which can be compared with Barbarians who help to make unnatural discord and strengthen the war. ‘I observed a funeral service pass’ this quotation provides the reader an idea of an day-to-day event.
This may not be morally proper and draws attention towards the violence and suffering from the war. However shows how locals are accustomed to it as a part of everyday life. ‘And into their hands I pushed my hands with a hundred black dinars’ In this line the poet is showing that lots of people in Baghdad will be in poverty due to warfare and very little money is available. Throughout the composition we see a contrast between peace and violence. For example ‘mosque’ and ‘blood upon walls’ and ‘missile’ and ‘beggar’ which is described to bless a thing with its smile. The contrast between anything so faithful and challenging is used by the poet showing that Baghdad was brutalised tragically.
Yet, in the last stanza there is a dramatic change from every negative into a sense of hope. ‘ the fruit fell in his arms’, this quotation shows expect of a better future pertaining to the guttersnipe. This draws the readers focus because through the whole poem we see not any hope before the last stanza. To conclude with, in my opinion this poem is a very effective and private journey which turns from war and conflict in peace and reconciliation between people.
The poet utilized strong emotive language and descriptive strategies to put around his thoughts on ‘Palestine Street’ at the time of battle.
