The People and Landscape of the Welsh Hillcountry :: R.S. Thomas Poems Poetry Essays

The People and Landscape of the Welsh Hill acres R.S. Thomas writes somewhat the people and landscape of the Welsh hillockcountry. By referring closely to at least two of his numberss, showhow he makes the Welsh countryside and its inhabitants vivid to thereader.RS Thomas was innate(p) in Cardiff in 1913. He was a Parish Priest inWales for more than 20 years. During this time he taught himself theWelsh language in rate to understand the remote hill farmers that areunder his care.He writes nearly exclusively closely the people and landscape of theWelsh hill country. The poems that he writes are lacking in mentalemotion but they neer lack tender or compassion for the massivelyhardworking farmers he knows so well. The landscape that Thomasdescribes so well reflects the grimness of the mens lives.The peoples lives are never sweetened nor ro human raceticized and the poethas no illusions on its harshness. Yet he has a deep understanding forthe hill country and its workers. This sh ows that R.S Thomas canrelate to the Welsh hill country precise well.The first poem that I am writing about is called The Hill FarmerSpeaks. This poem talks about the life of a farmer who has beengreatly preserveed by his work. The first verse of this poem talksabout a man who has no love and no friends. This we learn is becauseof the land as it says, I am the farmer unfinished of love and thoughtand grace by the lands hardness. This shows the hard work that theman has done over the years has taken from him his love, thought andgrace it is alike a metaphor making this vivid for the reader. But hewants us to know that he is still a human by saying, Listen, listen,I am a man like you. Alliteration is used present (listen, listen), tocause the affect that the man really is talking to you. The sameaffect is caused when he says, But what I am saying. It shows youthat the mans surroundings are very empty and hostile by it saying,Desolate areas rough with dew. This is also a metaphor showing itsvividness to the reader.The second verse of this poem tells us of the wind going over the hillpastures, hill pastures being a feature of any hill farm. After thishe says, Year later year, making this process seem constant. In thenext three lines in that respect seems to be a link between the ewes and thefarmer, where it says, The ewes starve, milkless, for want of the new