The Ecchoing Green🌾 Flashcards
1st interpretation
Blake is commenting on society and how it corrupts us
2nd interpretation
New beginning
Possibility of change
New life
The poem is an …
for …
You could argue it represents the …
Extended metaphor
life
Circle of life
Juxtaposition + reprensts
Between the 1st and 3rd stanza
Represents how society corrupts us and could represent a day
How is the 1st and 3rd stanza juxtaposed?
Light —> good
Dark —> evil
In the echoing Green
In the darkening Green
Sports
No sports shall be seen
‘In the Ecchoing Green’ is found in which book of Blake’s poems?
Songs of innocence
What does the 3rd stanza represent? Device
Season comes to a close, as the day ends
Extended metaphor for the corruption of innocence by society which corresponds with romantic movement beliefs
Such, such were the joys
Caesura, pause with the comma and repetition of such to emphasise his sadness and regret, missing the time when he was innocently playing
‘On the ecchoing Green’
Refrain or epistrophe
A Green in the village represents community and bringing people together
Old John, with white hair
John is old, looks at younger generation of innocence
Archetypal character (old wise male)
Make happy the skies: an example of …
Personification
Birds symbolise
Freedom —> anti establishment, industry and monarchy
Purity
Peace
… imagery
Auditory
First 4 lines of stanza 1
New beginnings, innocence and youth
1st stanza tone
Jaunty
Joy of life
Positive hopeful opening
