Comparison of Meditations in Time of Civil War

Yeats implies that possession is self-conceited as, with the inevitability of death, comes the inevitability that one day self-command will be lost when-as Yeats puts it-the master is ride. The circumstance that mice sack put to work once the masters inhumed brings together a new Idea of throwing-or possessing-people and the Idea that through this ownership comes a hierarchy which leads to people being treated like mice. The fact that they can now play, now that the master has gone, Implies that the master crush them through his ownership of them. However this section of the poem where the mice play is connect to a previous section which talked of dreams.They are linked through rhyme. In the previous section, which starts Mere dreams, mere dreams And continues until As if some marvelous exculpate sea-shell flung, has the rhyme scheme A. B. A. B. A. The fact that Yeats has also given the section, that Includes the mice playing, the same rhyming scheme, Indicates that this Is a mere dream and that the ownership is still present and postulate to be resign before they can play. Walcott in particular honorable mentions the view that-through the idea that one human owns another-the humanity and the rights of the owned human can be stripped away.This links to Walkouts main theme of the slave trade. The run along some slave is rotting in this manorial lake shows this idea the best. By describing the lake as manorial Walcott has linked the ownership of the lake to the death of the slave and therefrom Implements the owners In the Implied crime. This could lead to the desire to renounce ownership of the lake so as to escape the implementations associated with it. The boundary protecting the great house/ from guilt shows that with ownership comes the need for pride in possessions-also shown in the Yeats poem with the escutcheons ours.However, Walcott also makes reference to the idea that the mice can play once the masters buried. Walcott has been expound b y critics as a poetry pirate from other poets and uses them for his own purposes. This is the most obvious way Walcott challenges the idea of ownership. He takes these lines-such as partition of the continent, piece of the main- and uses them ironically for his own meaning. It is often ironic as the original meaning of the lines is normally the opposite of what Walcott uses them for.This contrasts to Yeats-who implied that the idea that the mice can play is a dream-as Walkouts poetry piracy is an example of the mice playing. Indeed it links with the Yeats line And maybe the great-grandson of that house s but a mouse. Walcott, a descendent of slaves, is this mouse and-by taking ownership of lines that others own-he is playing. This shows how the shackles of ownership, set upon the slaves in Walkouts poem, have been relinquished by the inevitability of the loss of ownership and by the leprosy of empire.