Introduction (experience) Flashcards
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About
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- Introduces a prophetic voice, the Bard, who perceives the conitumm of time and calls on the earth to wake up from a state of spiritual slumber.
2
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Themes
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- renewal
- struggle against reason
journalists to reclaim imaginative light
3
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Form
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- Iamboc tetrameter, metrical pattern - unity, coherence
- easy to recite,
4
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‘starry pole’
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symbolism, representing reason
5
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‘watry shore’
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symbolising the imagination
6
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‘Present, Past and Future sees’
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- cosmic awareness
- connection to the entriety of time.
7
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Stanza One
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- tone of reverence, prophetic vision. divine communication.
8
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‘control the starry pole’
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- regain a sense of order/reason
