20th Centaury Poetry Assignment – Welsh Poetry Comparison

This essay willing examine ideas of Welshness presented by Kelly J geniuss the lead singer of the Stereophonics and Welsh Poet R S Thomas and explore how they put them across.Both convey similar ideas in their work merely in rattling different contextsKelly Jones was born in June 1974, in the same hospital as Richard Jones. They grew up in a sm totally settlement called Cwmaman. It is describes as a dull and actionless range where null much goes on. With a population of only 1000, its a very closed in community, with old women twitching their curtains and every consistence k directlys each others business.The small village of Cwmaman was a mining village, though the pit has long since shut the houses that Kelly Jones grew up in were originally built for colliery bosses with the loftier ones being occupied by colliery bosses. Kelly Credits Cwmaman as having a good pub shade by which he means kids is allowed to go into licensed premises with their p atomic number 18nts. at th at erupt are four of import key ideas/themes in this verse form, time, boredom, routine, and escaping. The time of the tune is important, because in the video to this poetry we see people walking back, and the Stereophonics are the only people walking forward this suggesting that Cwmaman is a place where in that respect is no opportunities, and only the Sterephonics are making something out of a disadvantageously perplexuation. The theme routine, suggests that there is nothing new going on in Cwmaman, and that everything is the same, people do the same thing sidereal twenty-four hours in day out so nothing ever changes, and the utmost(a) theme escaping could be talking about the local character Mac the knife and the ladies eating amodal value lipstick on their teeth and how they scarper by drinking and having manoeuvre, for corroborateting all the problems in this villageThe straining More Life In A Tramps Vest was written by Kelly Hones on the back of a study back on e day while he was working in the fruit and veg cell in the market. The title More Life In A Tramps Vest has a special meaning to it, this being that a trams waistcoat which hasnt been washed more months on end could strike lots of flees in it, therefore the flees are happily bouncing around, so what Kelly Jones is stressful to say is the flees are having more fun by being on the tramp than Cwmaman has year in year out.Kelly Jones opens the poem by truism I get hold camping sapidity in the final instantIf you are said to have camping eyes indeed broadly speaking you are very trite, because if you go camping then you hardly get any sleep, so what he is saying is hes tired. In the final hr could mean his final hour of work. He is try to say hes tired in the last hour of workLast mute shoppers pick out cauliflowerHere Kelly Jones is saying how the last minute shoppers are being so meddlesome on the vegetables they are picking, and they are holding him up from closing t he stall put down.The fuss you make, you swearThey were buying a carThe people who are choosing cauliflower are being so fussy that they are talking lots of time picking through them trying to find the one that has the least marks, and this is making Kelly Jones very angry because he is waiting to go home.Always moan, moan its not so cheap,Cheaper steady, cheaper still down the highroadThis could mean that the people who are holding him up from going home are being picky and trying to get the price even cheaper, by saying the person on the stall down the road have the same goods for cheaper.I loose my get to and tell themTake your back and shop down thereKelly Jones is now very frustrated because these people are being so fussy, filet him from closing his stall, coning about the price of goods, so he yells at them and says go down there to shop. We can sympathise because he has been working all day and is probably tired of boredom.Closing down, closing down some other roadOne -way system steals the showClosing down, closing down other road could mean that they are closing down another road of their life-time, they are running out of alternatives on the nose like if you were in a car going down a one way street you have no where to go but if you have a normal road you can go up and down it, one way system steals the show, this could be the equivalent to their lives, meaning that there is no future what so ever in Cwmaman, and they that the people are doing nothing about it.Mac the knife swings a canAnd sings the day forwardThese sentences could mean that this local character Mac the Knife is trying to escape from boredom by drinking and trying to drown his sorrows, and singing the day away could seem like good entertainment for him because he doesnt bang what he is doing.The chorus of this song has a persuasive technique, because instead of just saying there is more life in a tramps robe they say more life three times before proceed with in a tramp s vest, then they repeat the whole line again. This is a repetitive technique used to make something stand out more and get a point across that there is more life in a tramps vest.Flower man sits down in the streetSurrounded by stock that he brought back last weekThe flower man who had bought stock last week cannot sell it, so he is in the middle of it probably trying to sell it, which could be a hard task because people normally buy flowers to mention something but because in Cwmaman there is nothing to celebrate no body is buying any flowers.In this next line there is a very clever word association, there is no real force-out for this, its just better than having a normal sentence, it saysBring back the ladies article of clothing lipstick on their teethMake up, we make up a crappy jokeThe word association is with lipstick and make up, but why do they want the ladies to come back, is it because they were the only source of fun and life in that town? And why are they making up a crappy joke? Why not make a good one? The answer is that since these ladies have left Cwmaman for whatever sympathy the life of the village has gone down and become boring. The jokes that were considered as fighting now seem like good jokes that people will express mirth at.Sit back, relax and have a smokeIf you read this sentence, it says sit back which could mean take a step back and visualise at our life, then you have a comma which is like a little pause, then you have relax, and have a smoke. This could mean that Kelly Jones wants us the reader to sit back, pause, relax which is like another pause, and take a look at his life, and the stressfulness of work, and how he smokes to relax.On the last 2 lines of the song it saysMac the knife swings a canAnd sings the day awayThis is a repeat of what is said on the end of the 3rd verse of this song, which could be to try and say this is what we all should be doing because Mac the Knife is enjoying himself.The last part of the son g is the chorus, which is said again. This brings a negative end to the poem because not only has it ended where it begun, it proves that there has been no progress in the development of Cwmaman.Kelly Jones aim was not to show the readers/listeners that Wales is a boring place to live, but to say that there is nothing to do in Cwmaman. The nuance of this poem was mainly sad I get camping eyes in the final hour hes acquire tired of work and accented over what he is doing, the song if very negative theres more life more life more life in a tramps vest if you are saying that there is more life in a tramp that goes around smelling all day long then things must be very bad This song shows some signs of Kelly Jones getting frustrated I loose my rag and tell them take your alkali and shop down there if he is saying this to a customer, he must be very angry because he is telling mortal to go and shop somewhere else instead of coming to his stall to shop. The yard of this poem seems to speed up as they get closer to the main chorus, probably because they are trying to let of some steam and have some fun.Over all Kelly Jones makes welsh life in Cwmaman look dull, lifeless and boarding, he is continually negative about Cwmaman in the song and it seems that this mining village is going no where fast