William Blake's Ecchoing Green
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- The Ecchoing Green
- Semantic field of nature
- 'sun', 'skies', 'Spring', 'oak', 'green'
- Stylistic feature of a Romantic
- Evokes innocence and peace
- Monosyllabic words
- 'laugh', 'girls', 'boys' 'joys' 'care'
- Evokes simplicity and childishness
- 'And sport no more seen/ On the darkening Green'
- You can't know innocence until you have lost it
- Semantic field of nature
- 'darkening' foreshadows fading innocence, or perhaps just signifies the sunset.
- 'And sport no more seen/ On the darkening Green'
- 'The sun does arise' - signifies sunrise.
- 'Old John with white hair/ Does laugh away care'
- You can't know innocence until you have lost it
- Could symbolise his reminiscence of when he was innocent. Although, age does not necessarily depict loss of innocence
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