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Critical Interpretation: TS Eliot

"it is merely a particular honesty, which in a world frightened to be honest, is particularly terrifying"


"Blake's poetry has the unpleasantness of great poetry"


"Blake was endowed with a capacity for considerable understanding of human nature"

Critical Interpretation: William Wordsworth

"there was no doubt that the poor man was mad"

Critical Interpretation: John Ruskin

"diseased and wild"

The Chimney Sweeper

Innocence


"we rose in the dark"


"soot cannot spoil your white hair"


"your chimney I sweep"


"all of them locked up in coffins black"




Experience


"clothed me in the clothes of death"


"both gone up to the church to pray"




AABB


narrative of a child softens the meaning


1788 porters act not passed



London

ABAB


"I wander through these charter'd streets"


"the charter'd thames does flow"


"mind forged manacles"


"marks of weakness, marks of woe"


repetition of "in every"



Ah! Sunflower

ABAB


"seeking after that golden clime"


"arise from their graves they aspire"



Earth's Answer

"her light fled, stony dread" - consonance


"darkness dread and drear"


"break this heavy chain"


use of exclamation marks

Introduction - Experience

"fallen fallen light renew!"


"rises from the slumberous mass"


fifth line takes away lyrical quality from innocence


sermon like

Holy Thursday

Innocence


Ascension Day


"flowers of London Town"


"children walking two and two"


"like Thames water flow"


"Grey headed beadles"


"sit in radiance all their own"


"beneath them sit the aged men"


narrative


Experience


direct address


"is this a holy thing to see?"

The Garden of Love

ABCB -> ABCD


internal rhyme in last line - "and binding with briars my joys and desires"


"thou shalt not writ over the door"


"priests in black gowns"

A Little Boy Lost

"they"


"burned him in a holy place"


"all admired the priestly care"


"bound him in an iron chain"


ABCB

Infant Joy/Sorrow

Infant Joy


"joy is my name"


"i have no name"


free verse


Infant Sorrow


no dialogue


"bound and weary"


"like a fiend hid in a cloud"


AABB

A Little Girl Lost

"children of the future age... know that love sweet love was thought a crime" - dramatic monologue


assonance - mimetic of union


"had just removed the curtains of the night" - freedom of sexual desire



The Lily

idea of purity


AABB 2 rhyming couplets


"nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright"


true love isn't guarded

My Pretty Rose Tree

"a flower was offered to me"


"her thorns were my only delight"


ABAB


"to tend her by day and by night" - creativity stunted

The Sick Rose

"O Rose"


"the invisible worm"


"dark secret love"

The Clod and the Pebble

"builds a heaven in hell's despair"


middle stanza presents a change between non selfish love to selfish love


"a little clod of clay"


"builds a hell in heaven's despite"