Give the substance of the poem Asleep in the Valley.

SUBSTANCE OF ASLEEP IN THE VALLEY

Answer:  The poem Asleep in the Valley, written by the symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, is a war poem. This poem has a very blissful and tranquil beginning. The poet arrests the mind of the readers by the mention of green valley, chanting stream, silvery sparkling of stream-water, mountains in the very first stanza. The sunlight fills the valley. Then (the poet introduces us with a pale, open-mouthed soldier, sleeping in ‘warm, green, sun-soaked’ heavy undergrowth. This introduction makes the readers very curious about the soldiers. Then the poet gives further description of the soldier. The soldier’s feet are among the flowers. The poet compares the soldier’s open mouth to the smile of an infant as if the soldier has no care in the world like an infant. In the last three lines, the poet makes the scenery and the situation both contradictory to each other. The expressions “in his side there are two red holes” and the “humming insects don’t disturb his rest” make the readers sure that the soldier is already dead. Now nothing can awake him.)

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