The Stolen Child
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- Created by: twassell
- Created on: 23-03-14 20:07
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- The Stolen Child
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- Sailing to Byzantium - mythical place
- The Wild Swans at Coole - natural/water imagery
- Quotes
- O human child! / the human child
- Repition gives a supernatural, hypnotic feel.
- 'the' suggests child has been captured and is no longer special
- Hob, Peace, Breast, Brown, Bob
- Plosives give violent imagery
- Uses poem to compare urban lifestyle and the freedom of nature (Romantic imagery)
- From a world more full of weeping than HE can understand.
- 'he' - emphasises distance between child and human world.
- Full stop finalises poem, the child is a lost cause
- O human child! / the human child
- Form
- envelope rhyme scheme gives a trapped feeling - how children feel / hypnotic feel
- Hypnotic refrain to give supernatural feel
- monosyllabic in refrain represents childish speech
- Context
- Glen-Car is a place Yeats visited
- Could be about Yeats brother who died young
- Uses poem to compare urban lifestyle and the freedom of nature (Romantic imagery)
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