Traits of Mutran's style and of his school in the text

11Traits of Mutran's style and of his school in the text

• A clear personal emotional current: he pictures his sensations and feelings.
• Nature is living and speaking and unites with his soul: what is in it echoes what is in him, and what is in him echoes what is in it.
• Words that suggest pain and loneliness: exile, fires, sickness, banishment, gloom, toil, violent, cramped, grief.
• Artistic unity: one emotional stance and one subject, with connected ideas built on a progression from exile to nature to sunset.
• The title "The Evening" expresses the content of the poem.
• Unity of metre and rhyme is preserved.
• Diversified styles: statement and non-statement (interrogation, exclamation, wonder) to express confusion and regret.
• Emphasis with "lahad" and "kad".
• The verbal sentence with the present tense shows renewal, continuance and the making-present of the image; the nominal sentence shows steadiness and emphasis.
• Ornamental devices are few, unforced, and do a musical or semantic job.

Criticism directed at the poem

• The use of "my inward parts (ahshai)" is imprecise, since he means the inner self.
• The words "facing me" and "the appearing vision" are unpoetic and forced by the rhyme, and add nothing new after "before my eyes".

Romanticism set against Revivalism

• Revivalism proceeds from the heritage, the old patterns and occasions.
• The emotional direction proceeds from the self, from nature, and from the unity of the poem.