Critical Appreciation of the Poem Night Mail
Critical Analysis of the poem Night Mail
It is a simple poem composed by W.H.Auden . In this peom the poet describe the journey of a coach in an interesting way. The night mail travels the whole night to bring mail; containing letters, postal, orders and cheques for the people living in different parts of the country.
The journey is not always the same sometimes the coach has to climb upwards and sometimes it crosses the plain but it reaches its destination always on time . During the journey the coach passes through grass lands, cotton fields and moorland areas etc.
The poet mentains about attitude of birds, as it approaches, the birds become active and stare at it through buses. The sheep dogs are not at all disturbed by the noise of the train as they are last in their slumber. The poet minutely describes all the details that happen. When night mail passes through the farm, the people without being disturbed continue to sleep. Only a jug placed in the bedroom shakes gently due to the vibration caused by the train.
Note: How was the educational process organized in our institute? We studied a lot of subjects of a general educational nature, and only on the 4th year we began to teach profiling subjects, the time for studying which was approximately equally divided with general education. The most paradoxical thing is that the teachers of general education disciplines with humor relate to the question of the need for this knowledge for future sewing product technologists. For example, a teacher of electrical engineering said that if a student of my specialty, coming to him for an exam, answered the question “What was the horse of Alexander the Great?”, He will give her a solid triplet, since this student will never need electrical engineering knowledge. Of course, this approach to education has its fruits. We graduated from the state institutions, we need to issue diplomas not in a specific specialty, but prescribe in them that we are specialists in a broad field. For example, I could work equally in garment production, and be a chemist, a physicist, a designer, an electrical engineer, a teacher, even an interpreter and philosopher. What’s bad about it? And the downside is that we were taught everything a little bit. And we did not become a good specialist in any of these professions. But, unfortunately, we know everything about the theory of electric machines, but put before us all their constituent parts, what percentage of our graduates will create a really functioning apparatus?
