Pastoral Poetry- Time
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- Created on: 03-06-15 16:47
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- Theme of time in Pastoral Poetry
- Deserted village- shows the passing of time to be destructive
- 'Wealth accumulates, and men decay'
- Change from 'healthy and plenty', because the land 'gave what life required'...
- ...to 'her virtue fled' (affect of city life), and 'intolerable days' (affect of emigration)
- Comparison of village in the past to present shows pastoral convention of nostalgia
- Life was better for the rural people in the past
- 'The Golden Age'
- Elegy- suggests time progression cannot be stopped
- 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'
- Progression towards death- life is irrelevant
- 'can..flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death?'
- Rhetorical- but it is clear the poet is suggesting nothing can orient death and the passage of time
- 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'
- Elegy- suggests rural people live by nature's time
- 'breezy call of incense-breathing morn'
- 'The ****'s shrill clarion'
- Indicates rural peoples closeness to nautre
- Also, rural people are portrayed to be happier/morally superior- associates living by natures time with happiness
- 'Jocund'
- Also, rural people are portrayed to be happier/morally superior- associates living by natures time with happiness
- Also, rural people are portrayed to be happier/morally superior- associates living by natures time with happiness
- 'Jocund'
- Elegy- mourns the passing of time due to lost opporunity
- 'short and simple annals of the poor'
- The rural people could have been as brave as Hampden, poetic as Milton or as great a leader as Cromwell
- Tintern Abbey- nature can help relieve the monotmony of tme
- 'harmony' and 'joy' stored up from nature for the 'hours of weariness'
- Deserted village- shows the passing of time to be destructive
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