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The Stolen Child
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Mind Map on The Stolen Child, created by shankelly3 on 04/23/2014.
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The Stolen Child
Background
Yeat's early poems- at the beginning of his career
Celebrating Irish tales which his mother loved
In his early works Yeats used soft, romantic words, poetry based on Irish legends
Set in Sligo, where Yeats spent his youth- mother's home
General Analysis
Poem= Metaphor for the return to innocence
Representing his dissatisfaction with the real world
Attempt to retain innocence and obtain freedom is almost impossible
Mystical world
Influences of romantic poets
Stanza 1
"Where flapping herons wake"
Heron representing death- foreshadowing the death of innocence?
"The drowsy water rats"
Reference to sleeping
"reddest stolen cherries"
Adam and Eve temptation
Idea of fruit being stolen support the idea that the child has lost it's innocences
"Come away, O human child/... For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand2
Get away from the harsh realities of life
Escape to somewhere, where he is free
Looking for the return of innocence as life they're living is hard
Stanza 2
"Mingling hands and mingling glances"
Faeries enjoying being free whilst the world deals with troubles
"anxious in it's sleep"
no escape even in their sleep they're not free
"chase the frothy bubbles
suggests certain degree of freedom
"While the world is full of troubles"
the reality is that it's "full of troubles" contrasts this freedom
Stanza 3
"wandering water gushes"
soft, plosive alliteration
portrays image of freedom
onomatopoeia
"a star"
representing hope
"From ferns that drop their tears"
personification for nature crying
"Over the young streams"
Water symbolic of freedom which they don't have
Stanza 4
"Away with us he's going"
child being taken away, taking away to a better place
" calves", "kettle", "mice"
Modern society has enslaved nature
Yeat's portrays his disappointment with modern society- due to increased nature of violence
The refrain is repeated which shows that humans are incapable of understanding and things have to be repeated for them to understand
grey, solemn imagery
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