ExplicationI Sat Belonely
...l idea of the first stanza is simple enough to ascertain the speaker who could or could not be John Lennon himself states that he sat beneath the boughs of a tree in the shade. There in the shade he heard a lady’s voice singing. The second stanza directly relates to the first showing that the speaker has not moved from beneath the tree, but merely looks up in to the branches and all around the tree to try and find the source of the beautiful voice not knowing why he can hear it but not see the source. “Puzzly puzzle, wonder why,” (7). In the third stanza the speaker seems to becoming somewhat disturbed by the fact that he can not locate the lady who is singing to him “Speak up, come forth, you ravel me’, I potty menthol shout.” (9-10). The speaker also displays a yearning to know where the voice is coming from in this stanza, but is still unwilling to get up and search for the lady. The speaker is lulled to sleep by the lovely voice in the fourth stanza only to awaken later to find he still can not locate the lady who is singing to him. The fifth stanza seems to be a climactic point of the sonnet due to the fact that the speaker finally seems to find the lady who is singing to him. This fact is exhibited by the lines: “I thought I see a sight, A tiny little tine pig.” (18-19). The speaker is also surprised by this obviously strange occurrence, and somewhat shocked by the pig who has been singing which is further exhibited in the sixth stanza. Stanza six shows us the speaker being not only surprised but somewhat embarrassed by the fact that he mistook a small pig singing for a woman that he simply could not see, “I thought you were a lady’, I giggle, - well I may,” (21-22). The entire sonnet has come together to show us that a somewhat plump and happy man sat beneath a tree for a bit of relaxation only to be thoroughly disturbed by a small pig that confused and confounded the man by singing like a lady. The speaker seems to be a genuinely good natured man due to the fact that he only chuckled to himself once he finally found the source of the singing, even though it was not what he had expected to find. The entire sonnet is most closely related to the writing style of Dr. Seuss, which is what Mr. Lennon was going for due to his deep desire to not only provoke thought in adults through his music but more often to entertain children. The writer wanted to reach kids with mere folly and silly rhymes, and thus wrote a sonnet that was nothing more than a funny little work that would do little more than make kids and adults both smile and maybe even chuckle. I feel that Mr. Lennon did a fantastic job in bringing levity to the lives of any and all readers of this and many of his other poems and sonnets. The style in which he wrote being aimed towards children for the most part is in my opinion a very smart way to immortalize the work, for children always see life from the most fundamental point of view. Lennon had a very good grasp of the English language which aided him in his music as well as in his poetry. He used this to the best of his ability to keep his rhyme schemes moving ...