A dream (songs of innocence) Flashcards
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About
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- dreaming of a lost ant crying out for her family
- the speaker, relating to ants misery is moved to teats by her bad situation
- Bus as soon as a glow-worm shows ant her way home,
- poem paints a picture of a benevolents and natural world, suggests help is available for those who ask
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Summary
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- one time, lying in bed under protection of guadian angel, had dream, ant lots where i was lying
- lost, confused from traveling, clabering acroos twigs, i heard her excalim
- oh no my babues, are they weeping, is their dad sighing with worry. one minute they look to find me, the next they go home to grieve for me
- i cry due to and, but then saw glow worm, who answerd ‘what weeping creatuer calls for the night guadian’
- im posted to illuminate the earth while beetle walks his usual beat.
- listen for sound of beetle and follow it, get on home little traveller
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Guidance, protection - Theme
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- told from trusting, childlike perspective,
- speaker paints pic of natural world
- not only glow worm but also beetle’s hum,
- ant herself trying to comfort her own children
- dream of lost and sound, world inheritly compassionate
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Ants and Glow-warms Allegory
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- story meant to illustraite the truth about human worls
- glow works readiness to lead and care like a guadian angel
- telling speaker about own life, message to everyone
- however never know if the ant makes it home
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‘a dream did weave a shade’
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- ‘shade’ - darkness of night
- ‘shade’ - enchantment, cast a spell on speaker.
- dreaming - personal significant,
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forlorn, Dark, benighted
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- caesure, halting rythm, ants confusion.
- nursery rhyme - innocence of speaker.
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‘all heart-broke’
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- anthropomorphiz
- imperfect speeach of young child
- evokes brokeness its describing
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‘what wailing wright’
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- alliteration - important character
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‘angel-guaded bed’
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- juxtaposes darkness night with light
- symbolic to ‘‘glow worm’
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‘hie thee home’
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- gentle h sounds, beetles hum
- like the hum, a poem can be a kind of quide towards childlike understanding of the world
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symbol of darkness and light
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- darkness - confusions, ignorance
- begning poem, speaker descrives ant as ‘dark’ ‘benighted’, which means ignorant
- ant unhappy as she is ignorant (lost)
- however with divine guidance, ant finds help
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Assonance
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‘calls the watchman of the night’
- musical tone
- speech gentle,
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Imagery
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- helps ready imagine world of speakers dream
- helps set up - resolve a miniture drama
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End - stopped line
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- stop and start rhythm, ants uncertainty/
- helps embhasize end rhymes
