Blake's Poems: London, The Tyger, and The Lamb - Romantic Elements and Critical Analysis, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Blake's Poems: London, The Tyger, and The Lamb - Romantic Elements and Critical Analysis e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! William Blake London, Songs and Experience - the rhythm is musical except in the fourth verse in which the rhythm is harish. Blake's view of the city and of the disease caused by industrialisation. Blake describes his time, the city and its society just as he sees and hears it, while he is walking. Romantic elements: presence of life and death. The poet has the role to denounce the institutions. He denounces the institutions of Church, Palace and Marriage which make people suffer. He is among people, and the description is made by the poet, who wanders/sees/meets+ 1st stanza, and hears— 2nd/3rd stanza ; it is realistic and modern. The presence of the poet shows he is capable of personal insight( capacità di visione) in people's problems; he takes part in the suffer of other people. The reality of poverty, exploitation and disease. London is different from The Tyger and The Lamb because it is realistic whereas Tyger and Lamb are figment of poet's imagination( frutto dell'immaginazione del poeta). v.8 mind-forg'd manacles— lack of freedom of thought.(metaphor) He denounces the tyranny that oppresses the mind and the body of people. Blake denounces three institutions which should make people happy but instead they: - the Churchi( it is dark which represents the fault ) because it doesn't care about children who were forced to work during industrial revolution. The chimney-sweeper's cry> woe of people. - Palace because it sends soldiers to war( blood of soldiers run down Palace walls). - Marriage through the image of Harlot, a prostitute, who has a baby that keeps crying. she damns Mariage. She destroys the marriage of a man unfaithful whit plagues Man v.5 and Infant v.6 have capital letters because they deserve it; Infant's cry of fear and cry of every Man mankind. The poet sees marks of woe, weakness. The Tyger, Songs of Experience by William Blake This poem is one of the most famous of all Blake's poems due to its powerful imagery and original rhythm. While “The Lamb” represents all the goodness in the world, the simple happiness, “The Tyger” stands for the opposite, indirectly speaking of the complicated evils of the world. The mood changes, becoming darker, sadder, more realistic. The poem begins with the speaker asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it. The creator could be the same who made the lamb. But, how could such simple good, and such complex evil, exist so naturally in the same world? God creates the tiger with energy and imagination. In “The Tyger” there is the presence of the sublime and mystery, and the vocabulary is related to the work of craftsmanship. Sound devices: repetition; alliteration. Syntax: questions. Rhythm: hammering. Wordsworth Lines Composed upon Westminster bridge The poet is describing London early in the morning as a beautiful and wonderful sight that touches him (emotionally). He compares London to a woman because it is wearing the moming as a woman wears an elegant dress ( lines 4 e 5). Then he shows us the landmarks of London that he is able to see from the bridge. In these description (lines 6 e 7) there are the contrast between the city and the countryside. The beauty of London is provided by the time of the day, in which there is nobody and there is no pollution or fog (lines 6 7 8 9 10). London is brigthing and shining thanks to the sunlight. (Comparison between the sun and London lines 9 e 10). The poet is feeling a deep calm by watching at this view. Also the river is calm; the rivers is personified in a person who doesn't run (the personification is noticed by the word "own" line 12), it is patient, it is taking his time during his "way" (nel suo corso). Also the houses are personified because they are asleep (cause of the people inside who are still sleeping at that time of the morning). the last line of the poem is related to emotions, in this line he is describing the heart of the city which is still sleeping. This poem is the romantic description of London in opposition with the realistic description of Blake's London. Blake's London is described during the night by analysing the diseases created by the industrial revolutions. There are no emotions in this poem but suffer. She dwelt among the unrodden ways (Alessia fasolato) The poem is describing a lonely girl who is loved by nobody but the poet. The structure is a circle (scusate raga non sapevo bene come metterla giù sta frase, la struttura è circolare. Volevo dire questo ), it relates "she" in the first line with "me" in the last line, it's a parallelism which underlines their tight relationship. The poet expresses his love by using images composed ( penso si dica in realtà " Composed images" Ma negli appunti ho scritto "images composed" quindi mi attengo a questo") as the ones of the star and violet. Line 7: "fair as a star" she is the only one shining in the sky among the others; she is shining for the poet, he is the only one who sees her. Line 3 the figure of the violet: none praises her, very few people love her, all her life she was unknown, then she died when she was still a young girl. Line 11: "but" it makes a torning point in the poem, it makes the present of the poet. It is a romantic poem full of emotions and feelings, the rhythm is slow, the mains themes are love, death, solitude, nature, simplicity, love of the humble, people. In this poem there is no imagination. rhythm: slow vocabolary: related to nature Daffodils Regular structure Sestect+ each stanza has a final couplet rhyme ABABCC Time brings memory First stanza: 1 line: simily ( as a cloud) 4 line: metaphor Second stanza: 7 line: simily ( as the stars that shine) 8 line: twinkle on the milky way movement, dance 12 line: personification ( their heads); sprightly+ cheer ( gioia) Third stanza: 13 line: personification ( the waves danced) 14 line: glee— cheer 14 line: gay— cheer 15 line: jocund+ cheer Fourth stanza: 19 line: beginning of the second part Bliss, pleasure— cheer. The ancient mariner part 1 Albatross— God's creature, element of nature Theme: tail of an adventure in the see, it's a journey Stanza n°6: he leaves real places COMMENTO SCHEDA: Meeting of two characters: the mariner and a man in a crowd— the mariner tells his story The Flight from society culminates with the description of a storm as a powerful element Solitude, absence of life Apparition of the albatross as the appearance of a "Christian soul " — killing the albatross, he kills a Christian soul transgression ( because the weapon is symbolical having the form of a cross ( cross-bow) Killing of the imagination ( romantic sense), suppression of powers which help man to acquire new knowledge. Ode to the West Wind Each part is a sonnet made up of tercets with Dante's terza rima. The poet is like a prophet. Lines 1-14: earth Lines 15-28: sky Lines 29-42: sea Lines 43-56: comparison to the others elements of nature. Influence of the wind on the poet. Le sue parole, anche se non ascoltate rimangono in attesa che qualcuno le ascolti. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Part 1 The opening part of the poem shows the meeting of two opposite characters: an old and lonely man, the mariner, and a young man invited to a wedding celebration. The compulsion of the marine to tell his story is evident, he uses the power of words and gesture to convince the wedding guest, who “cannot choose but hear" (lines 18 and 38). The mariner's tale is about a sea voyage. This tale takes the mariner and the listener away from whatever is familiar to him and orients his life and horizon (line 23-24). The mariner describes a storm during his voyage, which begins to appear a voyage with no return. The crew is taken towards the South pole by the wind in an apocalyptic scenery, where there is a total absence of life. The apparition of an Albatross (line 63) is welcomed as the appearance of a “christian soul" (line 65); the wind blows in the opposite direction, thus allowing a partial return (line 71). Reoriented by the light of the moon glimmering through the fog (lines 77-78) the mariners seem to have come to a balance. In lines 81-82, the mariner tells that he have killed the Albatross. The transgression is a terrible sin because it is similar to the killing of a “christian soul”. The theme of transgression and guilt begins to charge the voyage. Part 2 Part two opens with the mariner's awareness of his crime and with the spreading of guilt among the members of the crew, which condemn the killing of the Albatross only in view of its consequences. This will bear dramatic consequences for them since, while the mariner will be condemned to repeat compulsively his story, they will not survive to it. A “copper sky" and a “bloody sun" (lines 111 and 112) replace frost and mist carrying the mariners to a total lack of reality and of extreme sufferance. the iconography of the underworld becomes a description of hell according to popular imagination: flames and soot mix with strange apparitions, physical and mental traits mix in a dreadful reality. Although the mariners are all guilty,tne shipmates decide that the old mariner should expiate and as in a ritual of propitiation “the albatross/ about my neck was hung”" (line 142). Part 4 L.245: appena usciva una preghiera L.246: usciva un sibilo maligno L.250: he has the albatross on his shoulders L.255-256: non dimenticherò mai il modo in cui mi guardavano L.275-276: quando apparivano, una luce canuta cadeva a fiocchi L. 284-286: uno zampillo d'amore uscì dal mio cuore e io, senza rendermene conto, lo benedissi: sicuramente il mio santo protettore ebbe pietà di me L. 290-291: cadde dal mio collo e sprofondò in mare. L. 284-287: that's a positive stanza and also the climax. Part 7 Theme: return even further Abolition of the ship denies the possibility of survival for anything or anyone except the mariners that is seen as a “ shipwreck man”. The marines causes madness in the boy. Mariner curse become become a compulsion to repeat his story to a chosen listener. The Sick Rose - scheda W. Blake Meditation on the presence of evil side by side with good and beauty. Rose — symbol of innocence, beauty and purify — is in danger because there is the worm (symbol of evil, something negative) The Rose is threatened by the worm that reaches her during a thunderstorm. The worm contaminates the soul and leads to death and in adulthood leads to selfishness and wickedness — man discovers the presence of evil (experience) in a world which had seemed the domain of innocence. Line 7 + “And his dark secret love” + love is a positive thing but it's secret.