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The Echoing green by blake annotations
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creates an impression ofreverberating sound -
community seems alive
↳ con nations nature and
=
of fertility .
pastoral the
area
for community
THE ECHOING GREEN
*
opens with an
image of positivity + nope
-
start of day : begins natural
cycle
The sun does arise, B idealises village life in juxtaposition to the industrial urban iuwnd .
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
• repeated positive adjectives represents joy
•
symbolic of new life and hope
To welcome the spring.
.
The skylark and thrush, symbolic of freedom
↳ All three lines = natural Mona us in balance as the birds
'
song echos the
bells
The birds of the bush,
it
to the church in a rural community suggesting brings people together
reference
Sing louder around,
•
Ana is a positive force .
To the bells’ cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
unity a 18 liberty and
community
On the echoing green.
in harmony with the landscape
nature and village community
'
'
•
symbolic of stanza)
John generic name ,
Shepard figure in each
symbolic refrain C. phrase repreatea
-
• echos title -
represents all Ola Dahl over children
people -
lllhilst such looking
discarded
Old John with white hair
are
figures and wisdom
in the city , here they
Dm
symbolic of purity
value
are
given
Does laugh away care, • innocent pleasure +
joy in others
'
activities
strength;
Sitting under the oak,
and
the pastoral world representing longevity
symbolic of
between humans
and nature .
relationship
shelters the old reflecting
the
symbolic
Among the old folk.
☒ '
laugh
'
-
verb =
joyalty
They laugh at our play, -
'
Play
'
= communal and liberating experience .
And soon they all say: ☒ even speech is unified = shared experience
epizeuxis highlights
Pleasure
'Such, such were the joys nostalgia
µ direct speech +
past tense - =
implying this world is no
When we all, girls and boys, more
division
In our youth time were seen • no
gender
On the echoing green.' ☒ refrain
-
mirroring 1st verse to create a sense of harmony .
in
charge -
only once
they tire do the
time
← implies children are
are
suggests celebrations end ; they valued
Till the little ones, weary
+ have autonomy t a part
•
voice .
of
is limited
og joy natural cycle -
their ends with the end
of day in content to the
manner in which children in '
anijicai London '
exist .
No more can be merry;
way of life
The sun does descend,
end
perhaps symbolising the of a
foreboding
-
And our sports have an end.
Round the laps of their mothers
and
* unity maternal care
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