20th Centaury Poetry Assignment – Welsh Poetry Comparison

This essay will examine ideas of Welshness presented by Kelly J unitarys the lead vocalizer of the Stereophonics and Welsh Poet R S Thomas and explore how they put them across.Both convey similar ideas in their work but in very different contextsKelly Jones was born in June 1974, in the same hospital as Richard Jones. They grew up in a small village called Cwmaman. It is describes as a dull and dead atomic number 18a where nothing much goes on. With a population of just 1000, its a very closed in community, with old women twitching their curtains and everybody knows each others business.The small village of Cwmaman was a mining village, though the pit has ample since shut the houses that Kelly Jones grew up in were originally built for pit bosses with the loftier ones be occupied by colliery bosses. Kelly Credits Cwmaman as having a good pub culture by which he means kids is allowed to go into licensed premises with their parents.There are four main key ideas/themes in this meter, time, boredom, routine, and escaping. The time of the meter is important, because in the video to this birdcall we see people walking back, and the Stereophonics are the only people walking forward this suggesting that Cwmaman is a place where in that location is no opportunities, and only the Sterephonics are do something out of a bad situation. The theme routine, suggests that there is nothing new going on in Cwmaman, and that everything is the same, people do the same thing day in day out so nothing ever changes, and the at enormous last theme escaping could be talking well-nigh the local character macintosh the knife and the ladies wearing limn on their teeth and how they escape by drinking and having fun, for amazeting all the problems in this villageThe poesy more than Life In A Tramps Vest was written by Kelly Hones on the back of a composing back one day while he was working in the fruit and veg stall in the market. The title More Life In A Tramps Vest ha s a special gist to it, this universe that a trams vest which hasnt been washed more months on end could contract lots of flees in it, indeed the flees are happily bouncing around, so what Kelly Jones is trying 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 grammatical construction I get camping ground eyes in the final hourIf you are said to have camping eyes then generally you are very tired, because if you go camping then you hardly get any sleep, so what he is saying is hes tired. In the final hour could mean his final hour of work. He is trying to say hes tired in the last hour of workLast damp shoppers picking cauliflowerHere Kelly Jones is saying how the last minute shoppers are being so finicky on the vegetables they are picking, and they are holding him up from closing the stall floor.The fuss you make, you swearThey were acquire 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 ease, cheaper still kill the streetThis 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 highroad have the same goods for cheaper.I loose my rag and tell them precede your back and shop down thereKelly Jones is now very frustrated because these people are being so fussy, stopping 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. occlusion down, closing down another roadOne-way system steals the showClosing down, closing down another road could mean that they are closing down another road of their life sentence, they are hurry out of alternatives just uniform 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 awayThese sentences could mean that this local character Mac the dig 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 know 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 vest they say more life three times before continuing with in a tramps vest, then they repeat the whole line again. This is a repetitive technique used to make something fundament out more and g et 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 occupation because people normally buy flowers to celebrate 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 effect for this, its just better than having a normal sentence, it says toy back the ladies wearing lipstick on their teethMake up, we make up a decayed jokeThe word association is with lipstick and make up, but why do they want the ladies to fall down 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 set is that since these ladies have left Cwmaman for whatever reason the life o f the village has gone down and become boring. The jokes that were considered as rubbish now seem like good jokes that people will laugh at.Sit back, slow up and have a smokeIf you read this sentence, it says sit back which could mean take a grade back and look at our life, then you have a comma which is like a undersize 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 song 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 tha t 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 tone of this poem was mainly sad I get camping eyes in the final hour hes get tired of work and stressed 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 bag and shop down there if he is saying this to a customer, he must be very angry because he is telling somebody to go and shop somewhere else instead of coming to his stall to shop. The pace 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