Nurse's Song (Songs of Experience) Flashcards
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About
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- Nurse takes no pleasure in childhood innocence.
- Resent children remind her of her own youth
- Children play, waste of time, deception
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Summary
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- When i hear childrens voices, i remember my own youth
- i tell children its time to go,
- you waste your spring days by playing and spend winter nights deceiving yourselfs
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Adult distrust vs Childhood innocence
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- Nurse (nanny), feels envy/repulsion when watching children play outside. Waste of time
- Childrdn whispering - deceitful. Nurses presence lower their spirits.
- Childhood, something gets in the way of being an adult.
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‘winter and night in disguise’
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- winter - end of innocence
- darkness - darkness of adult life soon awaits children
- Disguise - buils on whispering, something sinster.
- Playtime come to an end
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‘whispering are in the dale’
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- down a valley, instead of hill, fall biblical sense.
- children descend from heavely heights to immortality/suffering
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‘the days of my youth rise fresh in my mind’
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- rise - anticipeate the dews of night arise, loss of youth, ending of the day
- fresh - ironic, memeories feel fresh but are expired, gone.
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Symbol, the rythms of nature
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- rythms of the natural world symbolize th trasition from youth to adulthood, innocence to experience
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Assonance
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- sing-song feel
- attention to important moments in the play
- interacts with other version of ‘nursers song’
- subvert, mocking
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‘day are wasted in play’
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- dragged out
- curses contempt for the childres wanting to play
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Juxtapositiong
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- symbolic level, disappearance of the sun replacement by the night.
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Form
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- riff on the ballad
