On Another's sorrow ( Flashcards
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About
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- describes love god has for the world and how it has inspired the speaker to act similary
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summary
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- speakers asks litening if be could not empathize with someone who is suffering.
- integral pity is to his treatment of those grieving
- second half, turns to god and how he interacts with the worl.
- able to become all those who suffer and sit by those who are in despair.
- impossible to be sad with all these instances of God’s joy.
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‘falling tear’
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- no context
- like a father unable to prevent tears when he sees sun cry
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meaning
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- god, benevolent, emphathise but doesnt remove it
- god able to empathise with human kind as he lived as a human. we are all godly.
- ## everyone needs faith in god
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Rhyth
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- song, hymn - innocent,
-rhythm disrupted, childlike enthusuam for ideas, misguided.
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‘sorrow’ ‘woe’
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- repettion, society riddled with it
- pain, suffering
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Poetic voice
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- similar to Blake,
- child? inability to recognise failure
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rhetorical
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- interrogative stance, apathy, epidemic, of pain in planet
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imagery
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- idealistic view of god and the creator.
- siliecing of childs emotions, no actions
- strong maternal nature, parental.
