Review of The Poem by Julia Ward Entitled Arriving in London

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I will write my own review towards Julia Ward's poem entitled Arriving in London.

Arriving in London by Julia Ward 
I arrived in London,
But misted windows
Showed me a strange Big Ben
Without the time.
Its four faces loomed,
But white, them all.
I arrived in London,
And went straight to B&B
But the woman wasn’t kind-
Quite sharp to me.
Her face was white
And not pleasant, not at all.
I arrived in London,
But soon was gone again…
I remember Trafalgar Square
With pigeons-one was albino
And pecked my hand
Not nice at all. 

The author of the poem, Julia Ward is kind of a newbie writer, she started writing poems in 2011. The nationality of the author is English, but she lives in France. Arriving in London is one of her works, it is talking about the situation of London, how is the behavior of people in London, it conveys through the words and the diction in the poem itself.

The poem Arriving in London by Julia Ward had been written in a narrative form, the poem is like a short story that tell us how the situation in London is. The speaker of the poem is ‘I’, there is no particular explanation or a clue whether the ‘I’ is male or female. The speaker can be seen from the first line //I Arrived in London//, but the audience of the poem is people in general, because there is no specific audience written in the poem.

Moreover, the settings of the poem is in London, we could see in the poem //Showed me a strange Big Ben// (line 3), as we know Big Ben is one of the symbol of London. The word ‘strange’ tells us that the speaker is a foreigner, the speaker wants to give the reader about her experience in London. The tone of the poem is sad yet ironic, the speaker seems like want to express his/her dissapointment because what happen when the speaker arrived in London is not like speaker’s expectation. It is stated in the poem //showed me a strange Big Ben/ without the time/ it is four faces loomed/ but white, them all// (line 3-6).  These lines tells us that the speaker is not enjoy the beauty of Big Ben in London and we could see that the speaker use a metaphor that the Big Ben does not have the time.
Furthermore, another lines in the poems tells about the behavior of people in London, //and went straight to B&B/ but the woman wasn’t kind-quite sharp to me/ her face was white/ and not pleasant, not at all// (line 8-12), through these lines we can see that the speaker try to convey about the behavior of people in London through the speaker’s experience when she goes to B&B (Bed and Breakfast) in London, it is not kind and not pleasant. In the line 11 we could see word ‘white’ it is kind of stereotype by mentioning the colour of skin. the speaker is saying implicitly that the white people is not kind.


Source : www.poetrysoup.com/poem/arriving_in_london_708997

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