While concluding John Cornford’s poem “Full Moon in Tierra” he refrains from “Lifting the triumphant red flag/For Communism and for freedom” and in the process seems to be taken verbatim from both Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, or pre-revolutionary speech by Lenin, the beauty of the distinction that Cornford’s prefaces serve to collect this cry, as most other communist poetry sounds positively didactic. “Here, too, our freedom hangs in the balance. / Understand before it’s too late / Freedom was never held without a fight. / Freedom is easy is the line which, apart from the topical matter, can almost belong to the literature of some ideological position, which professes to put the freedom and rights of people at a premium. In some ways, the poem has a distinct sense of an antiphon.
Those poets who were prominent in the total acceptance of communist doctrine, between the wars taur. a testimony to the astonishing technological triumphs as well as the horrors that would not have been believed possible just a few decades ago. The result of this terrible development of both the best and the worst that humanity was capable of was the production of poetry far more dogmatic and pessimistic than that which had been written before. The nautical trumpet was for the majority of the people, who were caught off guard by the development, but who at the same time found it necessary to check the potential for evil that this technology promised. In the midst of sounding the spotlight, there wasn’t nearly enough time to deliver traditional poetic things like the love of other people. Romance was considered luxury by many of the most popular poets of the 1930s; but they wanted to change their lust into poetry, which they saw as reprimanded (rightly and by anyone else). The dark storms of fascism from Approaching Europe. That’s why Cornford’s “Full Moon Tierza” is undoubtedly a spread, but equally a highly romantic poem that I stage to much poetry to come during the 1930s, abandoning the didactic tone that so defined Virginia Woolf The poetry of that decan, Cornford, Auden and other great poets allude to quite specific historical events, such as the 7th Congress and the Spanish Civil War, but not in a propagandistic and unartificial way , with a great sprinkling of passion and sincerity tossing the package.
The image of the “full moon in Tierza” is the attempt of a poet who is not content to be able to record his opinion only, but who includes those opinions in how another person expresses his adoration of another person. Cornford’s communist beliefs are based on the fact that he was as much an activist as a poet, because he first gained knowledge of the true horrors of fascism. If the poems of some of the other common writers of this era are often said to be elitist, Cornford’s poems usually feel like one member of the working class discourse. about the actual possibility of obtaining equality at the expense of movement. As a clerical or public relations specialist, Cornford expects in merging a larger ideological message complete with its didactic qualities, with a far more subtle personal message of persuasion.
