Leisure is a poem written by Welsh poet and writer, W.H Davies. Leisure is a eighteen lines poem which is divided into seven couplets. The poem was written and published in 1911.
Leisure By William Henry Davies Summary
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Summary of Leisure Poem By W.H Davies
Leisure means free time. In the poem, poet talks about Human life like how much busy we are in our life that we don’t have a time for ourselves. We are so busy in technologies world that we have forgot to feel the nature.
The story of poem begins with poet who say, what is life, if it does not filled with worries, here poet mean to say that our life only has problems and tensions. And we always worry about that only. We have no time to stand and see the things around us. We are so busy and troubled in our life that we ignore our surroundings.
We have no time to stand under the branches of trees and stare around as long as we want to. The animals like sheep and cows sits under boughs of trees and enjoy the beauty of nature around them. Here poet mean to say, if you don’t have a time to see the beauty of nature, then your life is meaningless. Animals life are better than you, at least they sit still and enjoy nature.
When you pass through forest, have you ever stopped and stare at squirrels hiding their nuts in grasses. We are so busy in our day to day life, that we don’t have a time to watch these beautiful moments of nature.
We don’t have a time to see the sun falling on the small rivers. When sun rays fall on the rivers, it shines like stars shines at night. We don’t even have a time to see sun rays falling on the river. The poet has describe nature in such a way like it is a girl.
The poet says Nature is like a beautiful girl, the way beautiful girl changes her footsteps while dancing, is the same way nature change its beauty from season to season, like it look different in monsoon season, different in summer and different in winter.
The way girl’s beauty reflects in her eyes, and end at lips by passing through eyes. The Nature is like a beautiful girl as its beauty flourish slowly. We don’t even have a time to see the flourish beauty of nature. We have no time to see how nature is changing and flourishing.
This type of life is worthless if we don’t even have a time for ourselves and to enjoy nature. What kind of a life is that in which there is tension all the time. We have to stop worrying and starts spending time with ourselves and nature.
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