TARTARY by Walter De La Mare

 TARTARY

By Walter De La Mare



  • Critical analysis of the poem
  • Discuss the poem TARTARY as a Romantic poem
  • How does the poet takes us in the realm of imaginaton in the poem TARTARY.
  • Main idea
To have an escape from life and it's consuming persuits is a permanent wont with the writers of the modern times. Being a modern wrier, Walter is also obsessed with the desire to run away from the worldly occupations which have eaten into his soul and rendered him quite hollow and barren on the intellectual level. It is but relevant to point out that, for the purpose of having this escape, the poet has erected an intellectual sanctuary which he can visit imaginatively an time and which is definitely as beautiful as any paradisiacal spot on the face of earth.
TARTARY is, infact , the beautiful spot that the poet has imaginatively built for himself in the realm of his mind for the sole purpose of having moments of rapturous Bliss in his spare time. As the physical description of this supposed land suggests it is, by every yardstick, the most charming and beautiful place for intellectual recreation and spiritual enjoyment. As the poem shows, this spot is vibrant with the musical notes of twittering birds, rustling leaves and noisy currents of the river which flows in the heart of TARTARY. Not only this, there are the added attractions of so many other added phenomena which lend a unique lustre to the overall charm of the place that the poet has erected within in the realm of his mind.

The thing worth mentioning is that the imaginary land of TARTARY is amply possessed of all those beautific charms which the poet miserably lacks in his own matter ridden and mechanized existence on earth. In a way this poem can be regarded as symbolic of vistful yearning on the part of the poet for something which can save him from the venomous impacts of modern existence and equip him with spiritual refinement at one and the same time. But there are the critics vehemently opine that the poetic composition in hand is the anguished outcry of a sensitive soul against too much mechanization of human existence in the present era.

Whatever the interpretation of this poem might be, the fact remains that it is one of those representative poems which are eloquently expressive of the poet's attitude to life in general and modern life in particular. 


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