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The meaning of express by Stephen spender?
The Express by the Auden Generation poet, Stephen Spender is a modern Romantic Poem glorifying the Express train in motion, which can be regarded as a symbol of industrial rev…olution. The poem is an answer to the degenerating world of the 20th century, with hardly anything to speak or think of Romantically. With the steaming Express train placed beyond "the bird's song" & "boughs breaking with honey buds", the poet drives home the message that the new age Romanticism will not wither away. A true Romantic is likely to find new "wild happiness" from amidst the machines, gas works and pistons. The poem is literally " a living poem in motion" with its alliteration, blank verse and concrete images covering power and glory, death, metaphysical transcend. It's a personal meditative poem starting from the plain of reality and ascending to the realms of metaphysical. (MORE)