Experience of lockdown!

"Lockdown" POEM BY SIMON ARMITAGE: 

                  UK's poet Laureate Simon armitage written poem on Lockdown during these corona pandemic situation. Lockdown poem first published in March. cause of the corona virus spread and thousands of people died. people are quarantine at their home. people faced so many problems and get troubled to live life. 

POET LAUREATE SIMON ARMITAGE: 

                An English poet, playwright and novelist He was appointed poet laureate on 10 May 2019.He is also professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and succeeded Geoffrey Hill as Oxford Professor of Poetry. he is Poet, playwright, novelist, lead singer.

POEM "LOCKDOWN

And I couldn’t escape the waking dream

of infected fleas

in the warp and weft of soggy cloth

by the tailor’s hearth

in ye olde Eyam.

Then couldn’t un-see

the Boundary Stone,

that cock-eyed dice with its six dark holes,

thimbles brimming with vinegar wine

purging the plagued coins.

which brought to mind the sorry story

of Emmott Syddall and Rowland Torre,

star-crossed lovers on either side

of the quarantine line

whose wordless courtship spanned the river

till she came no longer.

But slept again,

and dreamt this time

of the exiled yaksha sending word

to his lost wife on a passing cloud,

a cloud that followed an earthly map

of camel trails and cattle tracks,

streams like necklaces,

fan-tailed peacocks, painted elephants,

embroidered bedspreads

of meadows and hedges,

bamboo forests and snow-hatted peaks,

waterfalls, creeks,

the hieroglyphs of wide-winged cranes

and the glistening lotus flower after rain,

the air

hypnotically see-through, rare,

the journey a ponderous one at times, long and slow

but necessarily so.the Scaremongers. 

UNDERSTANDING OF POEM : 

                  The poem discribe about two dreams. first is about 'A hallucinating dream sequence of 1665- 66 plague stricken villege , Eyam. Professor Armitage’s Lockdown begins in Eyam in 1666 and offers a clear view to a bright and supportive future. And after that Simon's poem ended with the discription of kaludasa's work maghdutam. 

.                      In maghdutam there is a character namely yaksha who want to send message to his wife and the messenger was black cloud. In that yaksha shows the path to reach his wife or beloved. In very first line Simon remember the flews which became reason for spread of plague. simon use the word boundary stone, means he described that time which is seems like current corona time. people were banned to outside of house! they using vinegar Vine to clean coins! In current situation we use senetaizer to clean things. In second part of the poem Simon draws the drawing of middle india to northan india by his words.