Holy Thursday (songs of innocence) Flashcards
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About
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- innocent look on poverty and charity - on the surface
- watching an Easter Week procession of orphaned children making way to St Pauls cathedral.
- Poem moved by kids goodness
- cautions reader to take pity or risk driving away an angel
- irony, speaker doesnt questions how children ended up here
- not finding root of suffering
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Charity, poverty, sympathy, theme,
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- ## presenting children as angelic innocents, world treats povery as a moral failing
3
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Society complacency
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- hypocrisy pity
4
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‘Holy Thursday’
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- Last supper
- 19th century
5
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‘two and two’
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- polysyndeton, processions goes on and on
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‘grey headed beadles’
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- Biblical patriarches
- timeless
7
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river
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- ## timeless, image of river walking into holy place, judgement day.
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‘multitudes,’ ‘multitues’
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- diacope, overwhelming
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‘multitudes of lamb’
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- metaphor, spring, new life, children blameless, sacrifical,
10
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‘now life a mighty wind’
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- similie, allude to biblical windstorms. Whilwind God speaks to Jacob. Visitatiob from God
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‘harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven’
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- choir, soft alliteration
- breezy, breathy harmon.
- speaker intouch with divinity
12
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‘then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door’
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- upper class people, poor people earn their suffereing, speaker suggests innocence people suffer
13
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Meaning
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- how can england have such problems.
- irony
14
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Form
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- short and sweet
- rhymed couplets
15
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Meter
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- Long heptameter, arent common, attention
