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continuesnon-finite
verb =
laughing
‘Nurse’s Song’ (Innocence) µ
-
joy is limitless and never ending
me auditory sense of the poem
-
the importance of Childrens voices and valves them
When voices of children are heard on the green µ pastoral idyll
- industrial
contrasts world C London)
-
sense of fertility
And laughing is heard on the hill, µ Children are physically
elevated and closer to
-
natural getting ideas of-
natural world
heaven
My heart is at rest within my breast internal rhyme =
peace
and resolution throughout the
contemp tment
,
hyperbole emphasises her
And everything else is still Mana tranquility
play
•
determinist
-
possessive pronoun = care and love and protection • genuine rational
wealth and health
concern
for
Then come home my children the sun is gone down
And the dews of night arise is limited
by the
night foreboding
-
epizevxisis Of
•
play
imperatives
-
natural cycle
shows
Come come leave off play, and let us away
-
mum
nurses
authority
Till the morning appears in the skies • sense of hope and reassurance of further play
choral voice of children based on natures cycles
µ suggests unity
rational argument
my
epizwxsis
-
pleading voice
echo nurse
of
for more
and
may No no let us play, for it is yet day -
harmony
and respect
freedom
playtime
And we cannot go to sleep •
birds
symbolise freedom
the children mate a comparison
and
to
' '
nature
of eg : sheep
-
aspects
Besides in the sky, the little birds fly '
hills
' -
echos first quatrain
and protection Shepard
guidance
-
innocence
And the hills are all covered with sheep Sense of
,
µ '
god
'
to children
figure
epizevxis -
nurse is echoing children -
con nations to religion and
religious authority
mutal
grames the voices of the children = harmony and the church
critique of
-
respect within their relationship
-
§ •
freedom
avowing nature to determine their play
Well well go & play till the light fades away •
maternal sense
tradic og active
verbs , freedom ,
And then go home to bed µ -
'
mother figure delight
The little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'd
And all the hills echoed
Hq
nature is emphasising its pleasure
in order
natural euond
'
echoed
'
-
reverberating sound , representative of
to come
generations .
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