Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -The word ‘sun’ is repeatedly used in the poem-explain the significance of it.
The word ‘sun’ is repeatedly used in the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’. At first, it is used to describe the valley which is filled with the light of the ‘Sun’s Rays’. Another time, it is used in the expression ‘sun- soaked bed’. Finally, the poet says that the soldier sleeps in ‘sunlight’. All these recurrent images of sun serve as a beautiful ‘image-cluster’. But these images have some other symbolic connotations too. The sun is the source of life. It is the sun which helps to sprout life on Earth. It has the power to nourish life. The soldier is lying dead under the sun, but the sun fails to make him alive again. The poet perhaps feels disappointed at the futile toil of the sunbeams which in spite of being the greatest source of life cannot revive the dead soldier. Thus, the sun is portrayed as the natural element which fills the valley with its warmth, guards the dead body of the soldier, but is a failure in terms of bringing back the dead soldier to life again.