por Valeria Rizzi hace 8 años
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CHILD IS SYMBOL OF INNOCENCE, PURITY.
HE IS NAIVE, UNCORRUPTED
We are seven
Romantics themes
1. CHILD: METAPHOR OF LOST INNOCENCE
1st stanza: retorical question--> children
haven't got idea about death because
irrational
2. DIFFERENT PERCEPTION OF REALITY
BETWEEN ADULT AND CHILD
3. MIDDLE AGE
4. COUNTRY SIDE : perception of beauty
theme of death
the little girl lost her two brothers
country side
ballad form
1. METRIC PATTERN: Iambic tetrameter
2. RYME SCHEME: abab
3. ORDINARY MAN'S LANGUAGE
4.DIALOGUE between narrator and little girl
5.FIGURE OF SPEACH: (assonance , allitteration, repetition of the same words\ questions)
-PRE-ROMANTIC POET
-ENGRAVER
- CHRISTIAN
experience: disillusionment, corruption of innocence
limits of freedom: society, institution
The Tyger
1.STRUCTURE: 4 stanzas in quatrains
2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, synecdoche, methaphor, repetition of the same words)
3.SYMBOLS: Tyger --> experience
deeps -> hell \ sky -> heaven
stars --> angels ( Lucifer)
fire --> divine creation and
tyger's ferocity
4. THEME : creation--> GOD= BLACKSMITH
=created both
tyger and lamb
5. SETTING: industrial city
6. SPEAKER: ADULT
7. QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS (obessive repetition= anxie)
8. ROMANTIC THEMES:
-MYTOLOGY (hammer=Thor\ wings=Icarus\
fire=Prometheus)
-INNOCENCE LOST
9. EXPERIENCE: God and Evil coexist
innocence: state of freedom, happyness
childhood: pure, uncorrupted, naive
The Lamb
1. STRUCTURE: 2 stanzas
2. RYME: musicality --> figure of speach (allitteration, assonance, personification)
3. LANGUAGE: simple
4.SYMBOLS: lamb -->innocence, Cristo
5. THEME: creation
6. SETTING: country side ( vs industrial landscape of city side)
7.SPEAKER: poet=child
8.QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
9. RELEVACE TO ROMANTICISM:
-innocence of childhood (1st stanza)
-Lamb: idylliac creature--> sense of beauty
Natural state of man
