Journey Of The Magi Analysis

The Faber Book of Modern Verse'A cold coming we had of it,

Just the worst time of the year

For a journey, and such a journey:

The ways deep and the weather sharp,

The very dead of winter.'

And the camels galled, sore-footed,refractory,

Lying down in the melting snow.

There were times we regretted

The summer palaces on slopes, theterraces,

And the silken girls bringing sherbet.Then the camel men cursing andgrumbling

And running away, and wanting theirliquor and women,And the night-fires going out, and thelack of shelters,And the cities hostile and the townsunfriendly

And the villages dirty and charging highprices:

A hard time we had of it.

At the end we preferred to travel allnight,

Sleeping in snatches,

With the voices singing in our ears,saying

That this was all folly.Then at dawn we came down to atemperate valley,

Wet, below the snow line, smelling ofvegetation;

With a running stream and a water-millbeating the darkness,

And three trees on the low sky,

And an old white horse galloped inaway in the meadow.

Then we came to a tavern withvine-leaves over the lintel,

Six hands at an open door dicing forpieces of silver,

And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.

But there was no imformation, and sowe continued

And arrived at evening, not a momenttoo soon

Finding the place; it was (you may say)satisfactory.All this was a long time ago, Iremember,

And I would do it again, but set down

This set down

This:were we led all that way for

Birth or Death?There was a Birth,certainly,We had evidence and no doubt.I hadseen birth and death,

But had thought they were different;this Birth wasHard and bitter agony for us, likeDeath, our death.

We returned to our places, theseKingdoms,But no longer at ease here, in the olddispensation,

With an alien people clutching theirgods.

I should be glad of another death.

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journey of the magi is based upon a biblical story told in Mathew,chap2,verses 1-12 magi is the plural from the classical word magus a wise men from the east travel to Bathelem to behold the baby jesus, that the three wise men from the east were kings is alater tradition the speaker in the poem is one of the magi or wise men remembering his journey in olg age the initial five lines are a quotation from a sermon preached by Bishop Lancelot Andrews on chrismas day 1622 . These lines build up a dispassionate rendering of the journey of the magi with the birth of the christ , bad weather during the dead of the winter and a difficult long journey contenue with reapeted later later also in the poem the camels refused to move on being injured THe magi sometimes regretted undertaking such a difficult journey . they left their warm homes for a freezing zone. the pleasure of thier palaces were replaced by trials and problems.the camel men also revolted in want of facilities for pleasure and comfort ..
Hostle towns, dirty village , costly inns made a hard time of it . passing thought doubt and anguish the magi also thought of it as there fully
THIS IS AN analysis of the first part of the poem
the student\
Mohammed abdullah Alwashaly
Yemen\ Thamar University

| Posted on 2008-11-03 | by a guest

.: journey of the magi :.

i think this is an analogue to The Hollow Men. In that poem, the hollow men simply exist, wishing to be saved but refusing to make the struggle which is neessary for redemption, dooming them to a meaningless existence. In Journey of the Magi, the magileave behind all of their "summer palaces", which are things that get in the way of faith, such as materialism, and embark on an uncomfortable and seemingly unfulfilling journey. "I should be glad of another death" represents the suffering of Jesus on the cross to redeem mankind's sins, and also that the rewards of faith are gained through struggle.

| Posted on 2008-04-12 | by a guest

.: Love...is Colorblind :.

I love black girls who write poetry, are science nerds, sew their own clothes, play tennis, and are obsessed with Happy Potter and the TwlightZone.

| Posted on 2008-02-11 | by a guest

.: T.S Eliot journey of the :.

t s elioit (my homeboy) lived from 1888 - 1965 and in his time was a fair player and certainly had his way with the female specimin at the time he was active (sexually. E dog's poem journey of the magi covers some deep and meaning full topics like christianity and jesus and what not. most of this deep and meaningful poetry is hard to understand and anyone who trys to work out what it is saying is basically having a stab in the dark. but i am sure that E dog didnt know what he was on about becasue of the booze and drugs E dog did. From this carefully deduced evidence it is clear that E dog was a fair poet and had some skills but it just dosnt make sense.

note.
Temperate valley: Dean points out that the early morning descent into a
"temperate valley" evokes three significant Christian events: "The nativity and
all the attendant ideas of the dawning of a new era . . . the empty tomb of
Easter . . . as well the image of the Second Coming and the return of Christ
from the East, dispelling darkness as the Sun of Righteousness". Wohlpart adds
that the Magi's dawn arrival is "symbolic of the new life attained from their
penance".


| Posted on 2007-05-01 | by a guest

.: Αnalysis :.

The first stanza tells of them traveling. They are full of doubts and regret, and don't seem to know what they're looking for. The trip is not a comfortable one.
The second stanza tells of their arrival in Bethlehem. The two lines starting with 'Six hands....' are a foreshadowing of Christ's betrayal and crucifixion. Notice that he doesn't rejoice, but says it was 'satisfactory.'
In the third stanza, he says that he would do it all again, but that the birth of Christ led not only to Christ's death, but the death of the older religions.



| Posted on 2005-11-12 | by Approved Guest