the echoing green

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4 key ideas

  1. equality & connection between man and nature

  2. old and young in harmony

  3. microcosm of the inevitable path from innocence to experience

  4. idyllic pastoral setting of prelapsarian, ‘merry old england’

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key context

  • illuminated manuscript: depicts oak as cutting off the light (oak associated with maturity symbolises lack of imagination & freedom that comes with experience)

  • industrial revolution & enlightenment - causing people to lose touch with nature and thus their humanity

  • Rousseaunian views on childhood, Émile - gives children voice in poem

  • setting mirrors edenic countryside of his childhood

  • ‘merry old england’ - nostalgia for idyllic pastoral and joy of early england

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critical approaches Ao5

“for Blake paradise was part of the world that we should be able to walk” - John Higgs

“the full spectrum of earthly existence

nature can teach more “than all the sages can” - Wordsworth

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romantic conventions

  • romantic belief of the connection between man and nature

  • pastoral of echoing green - liminal, idyllic, joyous space