Impression de Voyage

This metrical composition Impression De pilot by Oscar Wilde is in the sonnet form ABBA-ACCA-DEFFED. wholly in each(prenominal) though it re altogethery is just about the voyage, the poet took everything into account. The 14 lines stanza of the poem is composed in iambic pentameter and with a complex rhyme scheme. The Poet practices sounds in the sestet at the end. The imagery is nice ( lazuline/opal/red sun upon the sea). at that place is the imagery of temperament, sea and ship. Wilde presents ship imagery by dint of various images like steep prow, hoisted sail, the mast, creek and the stern. All these images symbolismize a voyage or a journey perhaps a journey from living to end.Ship actually symbolizes refuge and sea is the symbol of danger. The colorise in of the sun is red and it is going to check off in the west. This image of red sun upon the seas to push symbolize lifes journey towards death. Lycaons snowy peak is also symbolising death and sterility. At the same instance the poet is mentioning the images flower strewn hills, blowing bewitching wind, blue lands, and olive grove, they all symbolize life. The use of auditory images kerfuffle of the sail, the wind was blowing, burble of the water, ripple of girls laughter, these create aural impressions, symbolizing life, activity and energy. so life has juxtapose with death by using contrasting images. The poet has utilize different colour in to describe the beauty of nature. character meant many things to the wild-eyeds. This poem is as true of Romantic landscape painting as of Romantic nature poetry. Romantic nature poetry is essentially poetry of meditation. Oscar Wilde has romanticized the nature in this poem. The landscape of the sea and the nookiet/ burned like a heated opal by means of the air, establishes temporal and spatial distance betwixt the enthusiastic visitor and the fabled Greece of myth and romance.The sapphire/ blue color of the sea is juxtaposed with heate d opal/red sky. Blue color is the color of heaven. It is the color of equilibrium and impartiality (being the color devoid of all heat). It is the color that symbolizes Peace, tranquility, cold, calm, stability, harmony, unity, cleanliness, order. While red is the color of fire. It symbolizes the extreme of activity, Excitement, energy, passion, love, desire, speed, strength, power, heat, aggression, danger, fire, blood, war, violence, and all things intense and passionate.The colors symbolizing peace and tranquility have juxtaposed with colors symbolizing aggression, passion and danger. According to Empidocles theory of ingroup psyche is the mixture of opposites. Good and bad both exist together in the world Thus Wilde has brought the contrasting images together in order to army plurality in life. The repetition of the words The flapping of in the lines 10 and 11 shows the balance amid opposites which exist in nature side by side. The tone of the poet is tender and mood is of ex citement and enthusiasm.This poem could have been written by Lord Byron, because it is his demeanor that Wilde copies. In this poem we have got the topic of Greece as a fabulous place. It seems that in Impression De Voyage, the French Impressionism term in the title appears misplaced, for in establishing a mythological setting (by mentioning Zakynthos, Olive grove, Ithacas cliff, Lycaons snowy peak and hills of Arcady), Wilde abandons any act at depicting impressions instead he describes a voyage to Greece, a return to the world of the flower-strewn hills of Arcady.It can also be considered that the title of this poem misleads, for a description of the voyage (including the ripple of girls laughter at the stern) supersedes the effect of briefly experienced passing images. In the final line I stood upon the imperfection of Greece at last the speaker perhaps experiences an grotesque voyage into the mythological past.