Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Post for Friday, September 16

Explain one literary device in William Blake's poem "Auguries of Innocence":

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.

A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.

Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.

The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.

He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.

The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.

The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the last judgement draweth nigh.

He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.

The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.

The poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.

The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

The babe is more than swaddling bands;
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;

This is caught by females bright,
And return'd to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.

The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes revenge in realms of death.
The beggar's rags, fluttering in air,
Does to rags the heavens tear.

The soldier, arm'd with sword and gun,
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.

One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
Or, if protected from on high,
Does that whole nation sell and buy.

He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.

The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.

The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.

When gold and gems adorn the plow,
To peaceful arts shall envy bow.
A riddle, or the cricket's cry,
Is to doubt a fit reply.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.

The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.

The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.

God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.

35 comments:

  1. Andrew Jimenez.

    If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out.
    To be in a passion you good may do,
    But no good if a passion is in you.

    One Literacy device that matches is Personification.

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  2. "The harlot's cry from street to street"

    A literary device that I found in this quote/part of the poem is Hyperbole. This quote exaggerates how much the harlot is crying.

    --Ruby Jacobo

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  3. "The owl that calls upon the night."

    The literary device used is personification.

    Breanna Senn

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  4. "If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out."

    Personification is being used in this quote.

    -Vannia Colado Chavez

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  5. "God appears, and God is light,
    To those poor souls who dwell in night"

    The literary device use is an implied metaphor. Because God is being compared as light.

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  6. "God appears, and God is light,
    To those poor souls who dwell in night"

    The literary device use is an implied metaphor. Because God is being compared as light.

    Maria Badillo

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  7. "If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out."

    This is a personification because he is giving the sun and moon human characteristics.

    Mitch Wurm

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  8. "Every wolf's and lion's howl
    Raises from hell a human soul"

    This statment uses various types of imagery, first off it uses visual because I picture a wolf and a lion, Secondly it uses auditory imagery because I can hear the howling come alive when I read along this line, and it also uses tactile imagery because when I think of hell I think heat.

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  9. A skylark wounded in the wing,
    A cherubim does cease to sing.
    The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight


    In this part of the poem, the literary device I believe being used is, Visual Imagery.

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  10. "A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
    Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
    A dog starv'd at his master's gate
    Predicts the ruin of the state."


    In this part of poem, visual imagery literary device is used. It helps the audience to imagine a doves and pigeons.Also, a dog starving at gate and tactile imagery is used because when I think of starving dog at gate, I imagine cold.

    Prabhjeet Kaur

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  11. Breanne Miller

    "A robin redbreast in a cage
    Puts all heaven in a rage."

    In this line from the poem,William Blake uses personification because he gives heaven a human emotion.

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  12. Jayme Marotta

    "A horse misused upon the road
    Calls to heaven for human blood"

    One literary device used here is personification, as a horse cannot "call" per se, to heaven. I also think "apostrophe", is used as heaven would not respond (given your beliefs I guess)!

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  13. "The gnat that sings his summer's song"
    The literary device used here is personification because gnats cannot sing summer songs, only people can sing... Therefore this is a good example of personification.

    Amy Ricciardi

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  14. "To see a world in a grain of sand"

    One literary devise used here is Meiosis. Its comparing the world to a grain of sand.

    Guadalupe Perez

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  15. "when the soul slept in beams of light"
    This literary device is a personification because a soul cant sleep but humans can.

    -Karissa Veiga

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  16. Amal Aldhulay

    "Is the sweat of envy's foot"

    This is an example of the literary device personification.

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  17. "The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
    Keeps the human soul from care."

    This literary device is a personification because a dear can not keep a human soul from care.

    Guillermina Martinez

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  18. "The strongest poison ever known
    Came from Caesar's laurel crown."

    This is an example of Allusion.

    -Paulino Auyon

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  19. "The poor man's farthing is worth more
    Than all the gold on Afric's shore."

    I believe this is an example of Hyperbole.

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  20. Miguel Comparan

    "The owl that calls upon the night"

    This is an example of personification because the owl was given human characteristics. Owls can't talk.

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  21. "he who respects the infants faith"

    In this line the personification is used as an literary device.

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  22. "The poison in a honey bee
    In the artist's jealousy".
    Uses personification in the sense that jealousy isnt a living thing and saying it has the poison of a bee.

    Josh Acuna

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  23. If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out.
    This is an example of personification;giving human characteristics , because the sun and the moon are incapable of doubting.
    --Maria Bravo

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  24. The chilly weather settles into your bones.

    This line creates visual imagery
    Raul politron

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  25. The beautiful butterflies titter

    This line is an example of visual imagery
    Salvador rodriguez

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  26. Daniel Cortes

    "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
    And eternity in an hour." ~William Blakes

    This is an example of hyperbole because it conveys an action by using exaggeration of fantasy.

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  27. "If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out."

    Personification is used in this because the sun and the moon are given human characteristics of doubting. Of course the sun and the moon does not doubt in reality.

    -Meldanna Gines

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  28. "Make lame philosophy to smile"

    This can be a form of personification, stating that the philosophy Is smiling

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  29. That last post is Yasmin Ramírez post!!

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  30. "The poison of the snake and newt
    Is the sweat of envy's foot."

    This is an example of personification,

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  31. "A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons"

    This is an example of imagery. We can imagine the dove house filled with the doves and pigeons.

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  32. "To see a world in a grain of sand,
    And a heaven in a wild flower"

    This is an example of synecdoche. The writer is connecting the "world" to a "grain of sand" and "heaven" to a "wild flower" which in both cases, the author is referring to a big thing.

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  33. Kregg Jones

    If the sun and moon should doubt,
    They'd immediately go out.

    The literary device used here is personification. It is personification because the sun and the moon are communicating as if they are human beings.

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  34. Kristina Gonzalez
    The poison of the honey bee
    Is the artist's jealousy.

    These two lines are an example of a metaphor.

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  35. To those poor souls dwell who dwell in the night;
    but does a human form display.

    This is an example of Personification
    The author is giving a soul, which could be considered an inanimate obejct, a human trait of literally a body.


    -Morgan Todd

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