SR : Lockdown - poem by poet Laureat simon Armitage

 This task is given by dilip barad sir.

Simon Armitage has written a poem to address the coronavirus and a lockdown that is slowly being implemented across the UK, saying that the art from can be consoling in times of crisis because it "asks us to focus,and think, and be contemplative."

The poet laureate's new poem, Lockdown, moves from the outbreak of bubonic plague in Eyam in the 17th century , when a bale of cloth from london brought fleas carrying the plague to the derbyshire village, to the epic poem meghaduta by the sanskrit poet kalidasa.









Armitage,who is at home with his family in west yorkshire , said that " as the lockdown became more apparent and it felt like the restrictions were closing in, the plague in Eyam became more and more resonant" to him. 

His poem references eyam's boundary stone, which contained holes that the quarantined villagers would put their money in to pay for provisions from outside, and then fill with vinegar in the hope it would cleanse the coins. it also touches on the doomed romance between a girl who lived in eyam and a boy outside the village who talked to her from a distance, until she stopped coming.

The poem was also influenced by scene in meghaduta . the cloud is convinced to take the message. 

In this poem by simon armitage we can find some hope that all things will be right slowly and steadily in pandemic days.

In my perspective, the theme of this poem is to describe the situation of lockdown.

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