VOICE : St.1-9 1st voice st10- 2ndvoice st11-23 1st voice st.24- 2nd voice st.25 3rd voice (''off----St.29) st.30-32 -1st voice
MOOD: Melancholic. In the end : acceptance.
SUMMARY : Meditation upon the tumbs of humble people, which leads the poet to meditate about his own death and ''the memory'' he will leave once he dies. In this meditation, the poet opposes fortune and fame to knowledge and feeling, in favour of this last ones.
STANZAS: Stanza 15.John Hampden,...
Voice: It is written in third voice. There are three different speakers: the scientist, Baldassaro (who is dead), and a Group of people in the carnivals.
Mood: It is melancholic and sad. Although there are some moments of joy in the midst.
Topic: The topics of the poem are Tempus fugit and Carpe Diem. There are three parts; in the first part (from line 1 to line 4), the topic is tempus fugit. In the second part (from line 5 to line 10), the topic is...
VOICE: The entire poem is in third voice because the narrator is a “child” who is talking to a lamb.
MOOD: It’s a happy mood.
SUMMARY: The child in the poem is talking to a lamb, which is the reincarnation of God. He’s asking question about its creator. They are rhetorical questions, because he already knows the answers (it’s creator is God).
TOPIC: Pantheism, which is the existance of an identity between God and His creatures.
PARTS: We can divide the poem in two parts:...
SHELLEY: Shelley, born the heir to rich estates and the son of a Member of Parliament, went to University College, Oxford in 1810, but in March of the following year he and a friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, were both expelled for the suspected authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook and, one year later, went with her and her older sister first to Dublin, then to Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six months...
BLAKE: William Blake was born in Soho, London, where he spent most of his life. Blake was first educated at home by his mother. From his early years, Blake had experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks; he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines....
POPE: Pope was born 21 May, 1688, in London. His father was a cloth merchant living in the City; both his parents were Catholic. It was a period of intense anti-Catholic sentiment in England, and at some point in Alexander's childhood, the Pope family was forced to relocate to be in compliance with a statute forbidding Catholics from living within ten miles of London or Westminster. Pope's early education was affected by his Catholicism: Catholic schools, although illegal, were allowed to survive...
London – William Blake
Summary: The speaker wanders through the streets of London and comments on his observations. He sees despair in the faces of the people he meets and hears fear and repression in their voices. The woeful cry of the chimney-sweeper stands as a chastisement to the Church, and the blood of a soldier stains the outer walls of the monarch’s residence. The nighttime holds nothing more promising: the cursing of prostitutes corrupts the newborn infant and sullies the “Marriage...
Infant Joy – William Blake
Summary: Another simple song celebrating happiness, this poem focuses on the gift of life in a newborn baby. Only two days old, the baby is asked, presumably by its mother, what name it wants. The baby names itself Joy, for that is all it knows. The mother then happily blesses the baby Joy, with the hope that joy will indeed be its lot in life.
Metric: This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme, a contrast to...
"The Chimney Sweeper" – William Blake
Summary: The speaker of this poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper, Tom Dacre, who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom, who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins...