Earth's answer Flashcards
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About
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- poem personifies the Earth as femal who has been improsoned by the ‘selfish father of men’ (might refernece to vengeful God in old testaments and/or the way organized religios form God as cruel)
- ambigious,
- repudiation of sexual repression, overbearing rationality, opressive oranized religion
- such things have trapped the Earth into darkness by restricting free love/creativity
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Summary
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- Earth lifted heead from darkness, grown dull, terror, hair was gray
- Earth said, im held prisoners on this watery coast, starlit jealosy is my prison guard, keep my cell cold. Abover i hear the cries of the god of men who lived a very long time ago
- I ask that selfish God, if joy in chained in the darkness of night. can innocence really come in dawn
- set me free from weaight. set love out of captivity when it should be free
3
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Organized religion, desire and oppresion
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- Anwer to ‘introduction’
- cant return because imprisoned/
- oppresion by religion have crushed joy.
- Earth calls on humanity to brake chain that binds love to be free
4
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‘spring hid its joy/when buds and blossoms grow’
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- erotic,
- sexiality natural
5
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Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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- ‘man is born free but everywhere is in chain’
6
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‘darkness dread and drear’
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- alliteration, r consonance, how beaten down she feels
- ‘grey’ - frightned and worry
- earth should be beautiful
7
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‘the Father of the ancient men’
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- Blake didnt believe in Old testament god. organized religion attack on nature
- human creater that restirics human kind in the name of being good.
8
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‘Prison’d on watry shore’
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- watry shore - boundry
- Biblical book of Jeremiah, God tells humanity they should fear him as he ‘made the sand a boundary for the sea’ ‘they cannot cross it’
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‘starry jealousy’
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- another personfied figure, who acts as a kind of prison warden
- another name for god (shall not worship another name)
10
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‘virgins of youth and morning’
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- ‘virgins’ - youth/innocence
‘‘morning’ - new life, hope, - earth cant be any joy as long as god holds them back
11
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tending the land - symbol
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- symbolic, sexuality,
12
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asdndeton
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- urgency, angry
13
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Rhetorical qs
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- asks question not for an answer, but trying to prove a point
14
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Meter
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- ## shorted in the middle two, evoking constricting of the Earth in chains
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rhyme scheme
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- semi - regular.
- musical yet not entirely predictable
- quick middle rhymes, restrictive
