A Vision Of Mud Poem Meaning

“A Vision of Mud”, a poem by a vorticists named H. Sanders who is one of the editors from Blast magazine. Like many other revolutionary reads, “A Vision of Mud” follows a pattern that I believed are commonly used between vorticists. The poem can be interpreted in many different ways, and the ending is always vague. It almost looks like the authors are leaving blank space for readers to fill in. There are only a few analytical papers written about this particular poem, and most of them think it’s about WWI and are written in a first person point of view as a soldier in the Warfield. Although agreeing with the common reads, I have another different interpretation about this poem, which also fits in perfectly with the writing.
What makes this poem revolutionary and valuable is beyond its content. The way it is written is so “out of norms” even for an experimental poems. Poems during that time period follows strict writing rules. The rhyme, diction, metaphor, everything was so …show more content…
Sanders is here to remind up of our faults, how we had gave up our nature as human and settled for the sake of society. Yet, the other value the vorticists believed in is the “remain independent and work unconsciously” (line 6), my read will not be the same as other reader’s. Since the ending is so vague and the shift of emotion is so drastic, readers will have different reads based on their background and how they relate to this poem in a personal way. This is what the vortex valued. Our independency as human and how we are all different yet work together as the world it is. “We do not want to change the appearance of the world”(line 14), because they recognized our differences, and want us too, embrace ourselves as “the People”(line 34). Some people might think the poem is about WWI but in my opinion it is about women living in a society of men and their struggle to earn their own