The Whitsun Weddings

Throughout the poem the stanzas change and the persona becomes more aware about his surroundings whilst he is on a moving train. In the first two stanzas he focuses on and observes the landscape outside the window of the train. I think he might have been feeling rushed to get to this train as he states "all sense of being in a hurry gone." We do not know where its going but it must be somewhere romantic or isolated as on  the train journey, many newly wed couples board the train. Stanzas 3 and 4 are him becoming more aware of the people around him and how they are disturbing him. Which I think we can all link to because if your on your own you tend to day dream about something, and once someone disturbs you, you start to become aware of everything around you and the people who are present. I like that by the end of the poem it starts to slow down, like the motion of the train that he is on. My favourite line in the poem is "Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain". Out of sight could mean the future, or that he is coming up to some crossroads that have consequences that are out of sight. "Somewhere becoming rain" suggests that he has some relief from the heat, which he experienced early on when he was on the train. But it could also be pathetic fallacy, and that the end of the train journey could be something bad and something may be ruined.