At five a man fell to the ground And the watch flew off his wrist Like a moon struck from the earth I stood on a roof top and they wove their cage Their murmuring throbbing cage, in the air of blue crystal.
I am glad I met you on the edge Of your barbarous childhood He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye Or pitifully; Nor on those eagles that so feared him, now Will strain his brow; Poems are the property of their respective owners.
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The train begins to sing when it reaches the open country. Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported. The poem The Express by Stephen Spender is an example of new romantic poetry which is quite different from the traditional Romanticism.
In the poem, rather than going back to nature as Romantics like Wordsworth or Keats did , the poet appreciates the running of an Express Train which is the symbol of Industrial Revolution. The train here is presented as joyful and happy which is again a direct attack on Romanticism which presented Industrial Revolution calling it the root cause of all the miseries.
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