Eng. Ass Poetry

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Eve-Song

By: Ayesha Khan


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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


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Initial Meaning

A womans love for a man

Unreciprocated love

Romantic Love- an illusion?


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TONE AND MOOD


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Sorrowful


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Unreturned LoveBetrayed and Sad


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The hidden dismay atthe chains of love

Dismay and

Loss


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And Yet, And Yet ashe came back/

We held our arms and gave him our breast

Forgiveness, Hope, Compassion


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Techniques

STRUCTURE

LANGUAGE:

Rhythm

Rhyme

Metaphor

Personification

Assonance

Repetition

Symbolism Imagery

Internal Rhythm


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Symbolism

The Isymbolises all daughters of Eve, or all

women

In Ispan and Eve span, the spansymbolises

weaving

The thread wovensymbolises Love


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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


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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


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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.


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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.


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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


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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!


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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


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Final Meaning

Stages of a relationship

Eternal cycle of this song of Eve

The pains of Love

Emotional capabilities of humans

Universal truths


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The End

The Heart has reasons that reason cannot

know


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