'20th Centaury Poetry Assignment – Welsh Poetry Comparison\r'

'This audition will examine ideas of Welshness presented by Kelly J unmatchables the lead vocaliser of the Stereophonics and Welsh Poet R S Thomas and research how they put them across.\r\nBoth convey similar ideas in their work tho in actually varied contexts\r\nKelly J geniuss was born in June 1974, in the same(p) infirmary as Richard Jones. They grew up in a depleted liquidation called Cwma firearm. It is describes as a dull and dead argona where nothing much goes on. With a world of yet 1000, its a genuinely closed in community, with old women twitching their curtains and eerybody k nowa twenty-four hour periodlightss each others business.\r\nThe small village of Cwmaman was a tap village, though the pit has considerable since shut the houses that Kelly Jones grew up in were originally construct for quarry bosses with the loftier ones be occupied by colliery bosses. Kelly Credits Cwmaman as having a wakeless bar culture by which he reputes kids is allowed to go into licensed premises with their p arnts.\r\nThere ar quatern main key ideas/themes in this poesy, time, boredom, routine, and escaping. The time of the birdcall is important, because in the video to this form we see hatful walkway back, and the Stereophonics argon the only people walking forward this suggesting that Cwmaman is a place where in that location is no opportunities, and only the Sterephonics are devising something out of a rotten simulateuation. The theme routine, suggests that in that location is nothing new(a) going on in Cwmaman, and that everything is the same, people do the same thing twenty-four minute of arcs in twenty-four hours out so nothing ever changes, and the occlusione theme escaping could be talking to the highest degree the local anaesthetic character â€Å" macintosh the knife” and â€Å"the ladies wearing lipstick on their teeth” and how they escape by deglutition and having fun, for substantiateting all the p roblems in this village\r\nThe numbers â€Å" more Life In A Tramps Vest” was indite by Kelly Hones on the back of a written report back one day while he was works in the fruit and veg viewpoint in the market. The title â€Å"More Life In A Tramps Vest” has a special convey to it, this beingness that a trams vest which hasnt been washed more months on end could declare lots of flees in it, thence the flees are happily bouncing around, so what Kelly Jones is difficult to say is the flees are having more fun by being on the assert than Cwmaman has year in year out.\r\nKelly Jones opens the poem by express\r\n” I get bivouacking eyes in the final hour”\r\nIf you are said to halt campsite eyes then generally you are very tired, because if you go camping then you hardly get any sleep, so what he is face is hes tired. In the final hour could mean his final hour of work. He is interpret to say hes tired in the travel a capacious finished hour o f work\r\nâ€Å"Last break shoppers picking cauliflower”\r\nHere Kelly Jones is saying how the last minute shoppers are being so particular(a) on the vegetables they are picking, and they are holding him up from closing the stall experience.\r\nâ€Å"The fuss you capture, you swear\r\nThey were purchasing a car”\r\nThe people who are choosing cauliflower are being so fussy that they are talking lots of time picking through them trying to find the one that has the least marks, and this is making Kelly Jones very angry because he is waiting to go home.\r\nâ€Å"Always moan, moan its not so cheap,\r\nCheaper even, cheaper still prevail over the street”\r\nThis could mean that the people who are holding him up from going home are being picky and trying to get the worth even cheaper, by saying the person on the stall down the thoroughfare have the same goods for cheaper.\r\nâ€Å"I loose my rag and tell them\r\n carry on your back and shop down there” \r\nKelly Jones is now very frustrated because these people are being so fussy, stopping him from closing his stall, coning about the expense of goods, so he yells at them and says go down there to shop. We can sympathise because he has been working all day and is probably tired of boredom.\r\nâ€Å" stop down, closing down another road\r\n unidirectional system steals the show”\r\nClosing down, closing down another road could mean that they are closing down another road of their living, they are runway out of alternatives just uniform if you were in a car going down a one way street you have no where to go but if you have a normal road you can go up and down it, one way system steals the show, this could be the equivalent to their lives, meaning that there is no future what so ever in Cwmaman, and they that the people are doing nothing about it.\r\nâ€Å"Mac the knife swings a can\r\nAnd sings the day away”\r\nThese sentences could mean that this local character M ac the poke is trying to escape from boredom by drinking and trying to drown his sorrows, and singing the day away could seem like good recreation for him because he doesnt know what he is doing.\r\nThe chorus of this song has a persuasive technique, because instead of just saying there is more animateness in a tramps vest they say more spirit ternary times before continuing with in a tramps vest, then they repeat the whole line again. This is a repetitive technique used to make something provide out more and get a bear down across that there is more life in a tramps vest.\r\nâ€Å"Flower man sits down in the street\r\nSurrounded by stock that he brought back last week”\r\nThe flower man who had bought stock last week cannot sell it, so he is in the middle of it probably trying to sell it, which could be a hard labor movement because people normally buy flowers to celebrate something but because in Cwmaman there is nothing to celebrate no body is buying any flowers.\r \nIn this neighboring line there is a very dodgy word association, there is no real gear up for this, its just better than having a normal sentence, it says\r\nâ€Å" toy back the ladies wearing lipstick on their teeth\r\nMake up, we make up a ill-scented joke”\r\nThe word association is with â€Å"lipstick” and â€Å"make up,” but why do they want the ladies to come back, is it because they were the only source of fun and life in that town? And why are they making up a crappy joke? Why not make a good one? The resolving is that since these ladies have left Cwmaman for whatever reason the life of the village has gone down and become boring. The jokes that were considered as rubbish now seem like good jokes that people will laugh at.\r\nâ€Å"Sit back, limber up and have a smoke”\r\nIf you read this sentence, it says sit back which could mean take a timber back and look at our life, then you have a comma which is like a pocket-sized pause, then you have relax, and have a smoke. This could mean that Kelly Jones wants us the reader to sit back, pause, relax which is like another pause, and take a look at his life, and the stressfulness of work, and how he smokes to relax.\r\nOn the last 2 lines of the song it says\r\nâ€Å"Mac the knife swings a can\r\nAnd sings the day away”\r\nThis is a repeat of what is said on the end of the 3rd verse of this song, which could be to try and say this is what we all should be doing because Mac the Knife is enjoying himself.\r\nThe last part of the song is the chorus, which is said again. This brings a negative end to the poem because not only has it ended where it begun, it proves that there has been no progress in the development of Cwmaman.\r\nKelly Jones aim was not to show the readers/listeners that Wales is a boring place to live, but to say that there is nothing to do in Cwmaman. The tone of this poem was mainly sad â€Å"I get camping eyes in the final hour” hes acquiring tired of work and stressed over what he is doing, the song if very negative â€Å"theres more life more life more life in a tramps vest” if you are saying that there is more life in a tramp that goes around smelling all day long then things must be very bad! This song shows some signs of Kelly Jones getting frustrated â€Å"I loose my rag and tell them take your nucleotide and shop down there” if he is saying this to a customer, he must be very angry because he is telling somebody to go and shop somewhere else instead of coming to his stall to shop. The pace of this poem seems to speed up as they get closer to the main chorus, probably because they are trying to let of some steam and have some fun.\r\nOver all Kelly Jones makes welsh life in Cwmaman look dull, lifeless and boarding, he is continually negative about Cwmaman in the song and it seems that this mining village is going no where fast!\r\n'