Upload
ayesha-khan
View
215
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
1/21
Eve-Song
By: Ayesha Khan
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
2/21
Dame Mary Gilmore
Lived from 16 August 1865 to 3 December 1962
An honoured Australian poet, author, journalist, teacher and
a socialist campaigner
Poems composed include Old Botany Bay, Marrid' and
No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest
Appointed Dame of the Order of the British Empire for
her significant contributions to literature
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
3/21
Initial Meaning
A womans love for a man
Unreciprocated love
Romantic Love- an illusion?
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
4/21
TONE AND MOOD
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
5/21
Sorrowful
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
6/21
Unreturned LoveBetrayed and Sad
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
7/21
The hidden dismay atthe chains of love
Dismay and
Loss
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
8/21
And Yet, And Yet ashe came back/
We held our arms and gave him our breast
Forgiveness, Hope, Compassion
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
9/21
Techniques
STRUCTURE
LANGUAGE:
Rhythm
Rhyme
Metaphor
Personification
Assonance
Repetition
Symbolism Imagery
Internal Rhythm
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
10/21
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
11/21
Symbolism
The Isymbolises all daughters of Eve, or all
women
In Ispan and Eve span, the spansymbolises
weaving
The thread wovensymbolises Love
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
12/21
Repetition
I span and Eve Span/ A thread to bind the
heart of man
He said,
He said
And yet and yet as he came back
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
13/21
Structure
Narrative Poem Eve- Song
Ispan and Eve spanA thread to bind the heart ofman;But the heart ofman was a wandering thingThat came and went with little to bring:Nothing he minded what we made,Ashere he loitered, and there he stayed.Ispan and Eve spanA thread to bind the heart ofman;
But the more we span the more we foundIt wasn't hisheart but ours we bound.For children gathered about our knees:The thread was a chain that stole our ease.And one of us learned in our children's eyesThat more thanman was love and prize.But deep in the heart of one of us layA root of loss and hidden dismay.
He said he wasstrong. He had no strengthBut that which comes of breadth and length.He said he was fond. But his fondness provedThe flame of anhour whenhe wasmoved.He said he was true. His truth was butA door that winds could open and shut.
And yet, and yet, ashe came back,Wandering in from the outward track,We held our arms, and gave him our breast,A
s a pillowin
g place for hishead to rest.Ispan and Eve span,A thread to bind the heart ofman!
Orientation
Complication
Climax
Resolution
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
14/21
Orientation:
Ispan and Eve span
A thread to bind the heart ofman;
But the heart of man was a wandering thing
That came and went with little to bring:Nothing he minded what we made,
Ashere he loitered, and there he stayed.
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
15/21
Complication
Ispan and Eve span
A thread to bind the heart ofman;
But the more we span the more we found
It wasn't hisheart but ours we bound.
For children gathered about our knees:
The thread was a chain that stole our ease.
And one of us learned in our children's eyes
That more thanman waslove and prize.
But deep in the heart of one of us layA root of loss and hidden dismay.
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
16/21
Climax
He said he was strong. He had no strength
But that which comes of breadth and length.
He said he was fond. But his fondnessproved
The flame of an hour when he was moved.
He said he was true. His truth was butA door that winds could open and shut.
Physically
impress
Emotionally
impress
Vows to be
true inmarriage-
hood
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
17/21
Resolution
And yet, and yet, ashe came back,
Wandering in from the outward track,
We held our arms, and gave him our breast,As a pillowing place for hishead to rest.
Ispan and Eve span,
A thread to bind the heart ofman!
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
18/21
Shape of the Poem/Rhythm and Rhyme Eve- Song
Ispan and Eve spanA thread to bind the heart ofman;But the heart ofman was a wandering thingThat came and went with little to bring:Nothing he minded what we made,Ashere he loitered, and there he stayed.Ispan and Eve spanA thread to bind the heart ofman;But the more we span the more we foundIt wasn't hisheart but ours we bound.For children gathered about our knees:
The thread was a chain that stole our ease.And one of us learned in our children'seyesThat more thanman was love and prize.But deep in the heart of one of uslayA root of loss and hiddendismay.
He said he wasstrong. He had no strengthBut that which comes of breadth and length.He said he was fond. But his fondnessprovedThe flame of anhour whenhe wasmoved.He said he was true. His truth wasbutA door that winds could open and shut.
And yet, and yet, ashe came back,Wandering in from the outward track,We held our arms, and gave him our breast,As a pillowing place for hishead to rest.Ispan and Eve span,A thread to bind the heart ofman!
Dame Mary Gilmore
The Rhyme SchemeAABB creates rhythm
and allows the words to
magically flow together
Found &
Bound
Span & Man
eyes & prize
Strength&Length
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
19/21
Final Meaning
Stages of a relationship
Eternal cycle of this song of Eve
The pains of Love
Emotional capabilities of humans
Universal truths
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
20/21
The End
The Heart has reasons that reason cannot
know
8/8/2019 Eng. Ass Poetry
21/21