“A Fine Day” - Michael Drayton

“A Fine Day”

-        Michael Drayton

           

         Michael Drayton was an English poet of Elizabethan Era. He has first published poems of Spirituality with richness of expression.

             In the poem “A Fine Day”, poet is describing the beauty of a day. The poem has two stanzas and both have the beautiful picture of a day.

Clear had the day been from the dawn,
All chequer'd was the sky,
Thin clouds like scarfs of cobweb lawn
Veil'd heaven's most glorious eye.

The wind had no more strength than this,
That leisurely it blew,
To make one leaf the next to kiss
That closely by it grew.

      

     In the first stanza we come to know that the day is very fine and beautiful. There are no clouds in the sky and the atmosphere is bright with the “heaven’s most glorious light”, which is the metaphor for sun. the thin clouds are like scarf for sun.

    

    The wind is blowing. The poet has personified the wind by saying that it has no strength. It is blowing leisurely. The calm force of the wind forces leafs to touch each other with patient. The leafs are touching each other with love and poet used the word “kiss” to personify the leafs as they are making love in this fine day.

     

      The poem has various poetic devices like simile, personification and metaphors with ornamental language.