"Beginning" by James Wright
The poem “Beginning” depicts what the narrater sees in wheat field on a peaceful moonlit night. In the poem, the moonlight is transformed into a metaphor for moon’s feathers, which is vivid and beautiful. Besides, the moon and the wheat are anthropomorphic, which creates a peaceful but dynamic picture. It seems that readers can feel "the moon’s young are trying their wings,” the moonlight is falling like hundreds of bright feathers, and the wheat is inclining forward to hear the sound of the falling feathers. What’s more, the slender woman who “lifts up the lovely shadow of her face," “steps into the air” and “is gone wholly into the air” just like a angel. It’s a process from darkness to light. On contrast, the narrater and the wheat still lean back toward their darkness. They are not as brave as the woman to break through the darkness and welcome the light. The moonlight stands for the light sudden breaks through the darkness.
The poem “Beginning” depicts what the narrater sees in wheat field on a peaceful moonlit night. In the poem, the moonlight is transformed into a metaphor for moon’s feathers, which is vivid and beautiful. Besides, the moon and the wheat are anthropomorphic, which creates a peaceful but dynamic picture. It seems that readers can feel "the moon’s young are trying their wings,” the moonlight is falling like hundreds of bright feathers, and the wheat is inclining forward to hear the sound of the falling feathers. What’s more, the slender woman who “lifts up the lovely shadow of her face," “steps into the air” and “is gone wholly into the air” just like a angel. It’s a process from darkness to light. On contrast, the narrater and the wheat still lean back toward their darkness. They are not as brave as the woman to break through the darkness and welcome the light. The moonlight stands for the light sudden breaks through the darkness.
However, what confuses me is its title “Beginning.” What is the beginning? Is the darkness or the sudden moonlight? The narrater and the wheat “lean back” toward the darkness in the end, so for them, the darkness is the beginning. For the woman, however, the moonlight is the beginning— which forward the light.
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