Poetry Kelompok 3

D.H Lawrence The Ship 

 of Death

 

By :   Ajeng Kurniasari               ( 20131111002)

         Encik Gaviani Warda        ( 20131111031)        ( 20131111031)

By :  Ajeng Kurniasari               ( 20131111002)

                  ( 20131111031)

           

            David Herbert Richard Lawrence ( 11 September 1885- 2 March 1930 ) was an english novelist, poet , playwright , essaylist , literary critic and painter who published as D.H.Lawrence. His collected works , among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of moderinity and industrilialisation . In them , some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health , vitality , spontaneity , and instinct .

  D.H. Lawrence asks in his dark and compelling work of poetry entitled “The Ship of Death”. Written shortly before his own death in early 1930, the poem is divided into ten separate parts that proceed in what seems like a circular motion, efficiently chronicling the long and painful process of aging, the deceptive “suddenness” of death, and the pink, fleshy reappearance into the world with a miraculous rebirth. It centers itself around the images of a boat, our “ship of death” that allows the soul to survive the “soundless, ungurgling flood” that threatens to sweep us up and, if not for “the ship of death,” would swallow that little shred of ourselves that is left as the abysmal sea of eternity submerges “the last branches of the tree” of the individual’s earthly existence.

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            In that poem show that moral imagination especially in religion . That moral issue is shown for each word which are related of in the stanza. In moral religion are explain about “ Death “

"Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.

The apples falling like great drops of dew
to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

And it is time to go, to bid farewell
to one's own self, and find an exit
from the fallen self.

Have you built your ship of death, O have you?" [1]

"Build then the ship of death, for you must take
the longest journey, to oblivion.

And die the death, the long and painful death
that lies between the old self and the new." [1]

"Piecemeal the body dies, and the timid soul
has her footing washed away, as the dark flood rises.

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying
and our strength leaves us,
and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood,
cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life." [1]

The first ,"Now it is autumn and the falling fruit” in the first stanza . Describing the process of aging and the prepare own death .  D.H. Lawrence uses excellent imagery when describing of it .  

            The second , “Already our bodies are fallen, bruished,badly bruished , Already our  souls are oozing through the exit , “Already our bodies are fallen, bruished,badly bruished , Already our   souls are oozing through the exit “ describing Both communicate the ragged scab of a man that the most disturbing (and possibly leprous) elderly males eventually

 become, with the tell-tale smell of death hanging about them. The entire forty-line process of dying seems to reek of death.

            The Third ,  where it reads “ there is nowhere to go / only the deepening blackness darkening still”. As the poem progresses from this point, the little ship promptly disappears, swallowed by the encroaching night of eternity and slipping into the sacred void of oblivion, until all seems utterly lost.  At the beginning of stanza nine, where Lawrence speaks of the sudden materialization of a “thread” that “separates itself on the blackness,” and “fumes a little with pallor upon the dark. Describes the individual as having a heart full of peace, which is reminiscent of how an infant is when he or she first finds its mother’s breast, and lays down in a calm, relaxed state of quiet love.

            The fourth , ‘The process of dying and the process of going to sleep are similar.’ This feeling also means that one stresses all those things we have in common and ignores those things that make us different. This is the secret of being easy and tolerant and makes one feel closer to all people and natural in one’s manner with anybody at all.

            The fifth , ‘...true sufferings are impermanence, misery, emptiness, and selflessness...’

This is most how I want to live. It makes sense of life and there is the promise and hope of eternal self-improvement, which is a further delight. These are things we cannot change - they are immutable parts of the fabric of life in physical form. knowledge of death, and suffering, qualities we all share, and which give our lives meaning and purpose.

            The sixth , ‘Death is unavoidable. When the moment of death comes, neither, medicine nor religious rituals nor anything else can prevent it.’ These are fundamental nutrients, which we all need to live happy, fulfilling lives.

To sum up , The meaning of “The Ship of Death” is religious, because it draws upon traditional beliefs to shape its expression. Finally, “The Ship of Death” is less confidently a statement of certainty about religious hope for life eternal than it is about the stern necessity of psychological renewal in every person’s natural life. Perhaps each night’s sleep is a passage over the flood of death-darkness, so each morning is a survival of spirit from the death of the body in sleep’s oblivion. More clearly, though subtly, the poem’s meaning is limited to the search for self-identity: