![]() ![]() "DROPS" INDICATES FALLING -GOING DOWN ,ASSOCIATED WITH DIMINISHING,DETERIORATION WHAT FIGURE OF SPEECH IS CONTAINED IN THE PHRASE "A ROCKING CRADLE" METONYMY -THE CRADLE (WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH A BABY) REPRESENTS THE BABY-IN THIS CASE BABY JESUS WHO DOES THE ROCKING CRADLE REPRESENT? JESUS-"BETHLEHEM" EXPLAIN THE ANTITHESIS IN "ROCKING CRADLE" AND "ROUGH BEAST" THE CRADLE IMAGE IS ASSOCIATED WITH INNOCENCE ,GENTLENESS AND NURTURING (A BABY IS GENTLE AND INNOCENT ,AND ONE NURTURES A BABY BY CARING FOR AND TREATING HIM/HER GENTLY.īECAUSE CHRIST IS SYMBOLISED HERE,THE QUALITIES OF INNOCENCE AND GOODNESS (LACK OF SIN),GENTLENESS,LOVE ARE ENHANCED "DARKNESS" LINKS WITH THE CHAOS THAT EXISTED BEFORE THE CREATIOM IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS,AS WELL AS OTHER GODLESS OR EVIL WORLDS LINE 15 IS AS BLUNT AND AS POWERFUL AS IN LINE 3.EXPLAIN THERE IS NOT EVEN A VERB IN THIS LINE,WHICH MAKES THE BLANK GAZE MORE ALARMING BECAUSE IT IS JUST THERE-IT DOESN'T EVEN TAKE ACTION.THE STONE GAZE WOULD BE BLANK AND PITILESS ANYWAY,AND COMPARED TO-THE ALL-POWERFUL SUN HEIGHTENS THE IMAGE COMMENT ON THE EFFECT OF THE DICTION AND ALLITERATION IN LINE !* "THE DARKNESS DROPS AGAIN" THE REPEATED "D" IS A SOLID ,DEAD SOUND (FOUND ELSEWHERE IN THE POEM,"BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE") -SIGNIFYING A DEAD END OF CIVILISATION OR THE HUMAN QUALITY OF LIFE. THE "GAZE" OF THE CREATURE MOVING ITS SLOW THIGHS IS A FRIGHTENING ONE ,AS ITS VERY SLOWNESS MAKES IT SOUND DELIBERATE AND UNCONCERNED ABOUT ABOUT POSSIBLE RESISTENCE:IT IS INEVITABLE.THE SEXUAL IMAGE IS ALSO FRIGHTENING- WHAT IS OMINOUS OR FRIGHTENING ABOUT ITS FIRST BEING DESCRIBED AS "A SHAPE" A SHAPE IS UNDEFINED-AND THE UNKNOWN IS ALWAYS ALMOST MORE FRIGHTENING THAN THE KNOWN.IT ALSO CONVEYS THE INHUMANE IDENTITY OF THE CREATURE. OTHER POSSIBILITIES: BEING HALF-LION ,HALF-MAN SUGGESTS THAT ALTHOUGH IT COULD BE BORN OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ,IT IS ALSO BESTIAL AND POWERFUL. ![]() THE SPINX IS MADE OF STONE-WHICH HAS CONNOTATIONS OF HARDNESS,COLDNESS,LACK OF EMOTION AND INHUMANITY. WE ARE REMINDED OF THE PHAROAHS WHO WERE SEEN AS GODS IN PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA,AND TO WHOM THE LIFE OF OTHER HUMANS WAS SEEN AS COMPLETELY EXPENDABLE (HOW MANY THOUSANDS DIED DURING THE COURSE OF BUILDING THE PYRAMIDSIIT DIDN'T MATTER TO THEM -SLAVES AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD WERE BURIED ALIVE WITH THE PHAROAHS SO THAT THE PHAROAHS SO THAT THE PHAROAHS WOULD WANT FOR NOTHING WHEN THEY WENT IN THEIR OTHER KINGDOM THE DESERT IS BARREN AND HARSH-CONVEYING THE IDEA OF PITILESSNESS ,LACK OF MERCY THE REFERENCE TO EGYPT RETURNS US TO AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRISTIANITY,THUS PREPARING US FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A CYCLE RETURNING IN WHICH CHRISTIANITY CEASES TO EXIST. ![]() HOW DOES THIS TONE DIFFER FROM THE TONE OF THE REST OF POEM? THE REST OF THE POEM PAINTS A DISMAL PICTURE OF COMPLETE CHAOS :THUS THE TONE IS ONE OF HOPELESSNESS,DESPAIR,FOREBODING DOME EXPLAIN IN DETAIL WHY YOU THINK YEATS CHOSE TO REPRESENT THE ANTI-CHRIST THAT IS APPROACHING AS S SPINX-LIKE CREATURE FROM THE "SANDS OF THE DESERT". ![]()
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