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
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‘wailing wight Calls’

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  • enjambments, glow worms confidence.
  • authorative
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rhyme scheme

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Speaker

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  • child, childlike figure.