... delight Softest clothing wooly, bright: Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice." The constant repetition of the word "Gave" emphasises the child's vision that life is a gift. The child sees God as the creator, he is never doubtful, and this is what Blake saw as representative of innocence. The rhyme scheme and the flow of the poem, with its natural imagery, give the feel of a 'fairy tale' like atmosphere, and seem ... , the poem is packed with alliteration, even in the first stanza. This is evident in the repetition of the T and B sound in the first line, and the F s...

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... words like mead, delight, bright, softest, gentle, tender and rejoice. A loving god made and created the lamb. Created a simple, but beautiful natural thing. The second verse answers questions, "Little Lamb I tell thee". The word "He" is used instead of God. God made the lamb. Jesus became the Lamb of God, "He became a little child". This is all very Christ like. God is presented in ordinary everyday things, "I a child and ... admires such a powerful creation. It must have been immortal. This poem gives very powerful images, "forests of the night burn the fire of thine eyes", "twist the...

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... walks in beauty like the night" there is a clear example of a poetic devise called a simile; which establishes the comparison explicitly with words like or as"( Di Yanni, 503). In this case it is making the comparison of her beautiful walking with the night. There is also an example of alliteration in lines two and five " Of cloudless climes and starry skies" and " Thus mellowed to that tender light." Showing a ... repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word like cloudless climes and starry skies; and to that ... tender. Lastly; there is an internal rhyme in line thirtee...

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... though it had soured considerably. The first poem in the series entitled "The Going", deals specifically with the suddeness of Emma's death in the first line: "Why quickly did you give no hint that night/ That quickly after the morrow's dawn, / And calmly, as if indifferent quite, You would close your term here, up and be gone- The word "indifferent" is carefully placed and is the start of a recurring theme: It ... "Yes, I companion him to places/ Only dreamers know .where the past is all to him, / Close as his shade can do, / Always lacking the power to call to him,- Hardy writes that ...

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... I were stedfast as thou art." Such a direct address also implies some degree of personification of the star--that is, treating the star as if it has some human attributes. But what attributes? Keats immediately begins to tell us what it is about the star that he doesn't envy: Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patent, sleepless eremite ... ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors . . . So: he wishes that he were as steadfast as the star, but not "in lon...

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... seems to contradict his own assertions and indicate that a physical connection is just as important as a non-physical one"(Johnson, pg. 3). "And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride In her sepulcher there by the sea... In her tomb by the side of the sea" (870). Rhythm and rhyme play important roles in bringing ... about his character. He finds the use of repetition powerful and necessary to help make his point. "We love with a love that was more than love"(869). "Poe repeats the word "love" three times as if to demonstrate the ina...

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... are not apparent in some of his earlier works, where he often accentuates moments of happiness. - " all is a prize- taken from "The Starlight Night". One of Hopkins's most famous (and most debated) theories centres on the concept of "inscape." He coined this word to refer to the essential individuality of a thing, but with a focus not on its particularity or uniqueness, but rather on ... the design that gives a thing its distinctive characteristics and relates it to its context, very much as a melody ... of a tender of, O of a feathery delicacy- from "The Wreck of the Deutschland". Thi...

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... it with what they should have been doing at this tender stage in their lives: 'leaping' and 'laughing' in the sunshine. In the Songs of Experience version, the narrator introduces the boy chimney sweep as no more than a 'little black thing'. The child is so young that he cannot even pronounce the traditional cry of 'sweep, sweep' which the chimney sweeps of Blake's time called out to advertise their ... this woman, and has transformed her empathy with the children into envy, even hatred. Unlike the nurse of Innocence, she does not encourage the children to enjoy the pleasures of their y...

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