تحليل قصائد الشعر
مالحظة من الطالب علي حسين :عزيزي الطالب ،هذه الملزمة هي ليست ملزمة من استاذ
متخصص في مادة الشعر بل انها ملزمتي الخاصة ،قمت بجمع بعض المعلومات من
االنترنت والبعض االخر من استاذ المادة (باسل) ،لذا ال استطيع ان اجزم لك ان كل ما
تمت كتابته هنا هو صحيح .فان اعتمادك على هذه الملزمة هو خيارك ،علما ً انه انا
شخصيا ً ساعتمد على هذه الملزمة.
London
22 :الصفحة
General meaning: it is about London.
Poet's intention: The poet wants to describe the difficulties of
life in London.
Detailed meaning
The first stanza:
"I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe."
The speaker takes a walk through the specific streets of
London. This walk brings him near the River Thames, which
flows throughout the city. The speaker sees signs of resignation
and sadness in the faces of every person the speaker passes
by.
the second stanza:
"In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear "
The speaker hears this pain too, in the cries men as well as
those of fearful newborn babies. In fact, in every voice in the
city, in every law or restriction London places on its population,
the speaker can sense people's feelings of being oppressed by
city life.
The third stanza:
"How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls "
The speaker hears the cry of young chimney-sweeps, whose
misery brings shame on the Church authorities. Thinking of
unfortunate British soldiers dying in vain, the speaker imagines
their blood running down the walls of a palace.
The fourth stanza:
"But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse"
Most of all, the speaker hears the midnight cries of young
Harlots, who swear and curse at their situation. In turn, this
miserable sound brings misery to their tearful new-born
children. The speaker also imagines this sound plaguing what
the speaker calls "the Marriage hearse"—a surreal imagined
vehicle that carries love and death together.
Literary Devices
Metaphor: “The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
is a metaphor for the hardships of the people working in
industries, which is equal to working in prison.
The Chimney Sweeper
A little black thing among the snow
23 :الصفحة
General meaning: it is about a child who works as a chimney
sweeper.
Poet's intention: the poet wants to expose the horrors of child
labor, also he rejected bad behavior by parents to their
children.
Detailed meaning
The first line of the first stanza, “a little black thing among the
snow” mentions the image of a dead bird, or something lying
strewn and forgotten. A little black thing is something not
immediately identified as a child, and the fact that it is black
means it was dirty and forgotten. The second line quite clearly
states that the child is crying miserably, and the author asks
what has happened. The third line, where the author asks
exactly where the “thing’s” mother and father are make clear
the fact that they are not present and the child is alone, outside
in the cold. This, combined with the next line where the child
(we may assume it is a child at this point) states that both his
mother and father are up at the church praying point to an
institutional condemnation of the church and the condemnation
of the parents who abandoned their child. They have gone to
the church in order to pray, and yet are behaving in an unkind
and ungodly manner by abandoning their child alone, in the
snow, in order to do so.
The second stanza begins with the child talking to the author,
stating that the reason he is weeping and alone is because he
was a happy, smiling child- again a condemnation of the
parents who abandoned him while contrasting his current state
with the image of what he should be acting like as a child,
which is happy and free. His implication that because he was
happy and free, singing innocently among the white snow, that
he is now clothed in death and taught to sing notes of woe is
terribly depressing and sad. Furthermore, the words “clothes of
death” relate both to the black color and the notion that these
children were sold into a profession that would quickly and
brutally kill them.
The third stanza also condemns his parents as well as any
other adults around him. This relates back to the notion that
even if these children may not be visibly miserable in their day
to day lives, it does not mean they have been done no harm.
The fact that they still may act like children does not excuse the
actions of the adults who have wronged them. The next line is
an indictment of organized religion and the government- for the
parents have gone to praise God, the Priest, and their King, for
essentially selling their child into a certain death. And these
institutions, which are supposed to bring good things and
structure to the world, are implied as being the root of them,
making up a heaven of misery. This last line in particular
speaks directly to Blake’s opinions about institutions and their
general ineffectiveness.
The solitary reaper
48 :الصفحة
General meaning: It is about a solitary reaper.
Poet's intention: The poet wants to say that nature is an
important source of inspiration and imagination in times of
stress and difficulties.
Detailed meaning: This poem is about a Scottish girl that is
alone in the fields working and singing her melodious song. The
speaker passes by and gets amazed when hears the sweet
sound of that girl. He feels that the whole valley is overflowing
with that enchanting music. The melancholic tone of the song
impresses him so much so that he seems unsure whether he
should stop to enjoy or continue his journey. He compares her
song to that of a nightingale and cuckoo that sing in exotic
lands to welcome the travelers. Although he does not
understand the language of her melody, the tone suggests that
the song is about some past sorrow, pain, loss during battles
fought long ago. He also assumes that it might be about a
present sorrow, loss or pain. He fails to figure out the reason for
her distress. Instead, he enjoys the beauty of her song that
lingers in his mind and touches the core of his heart, giving him
an everlasting joy.
The World Is Too Much With Us
) (خارج المنهج:الصفحة
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The poem:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
General meaning: It is about our world.
.) هنا هو اجابتي الخاصة فقد تكون اجابة غير دقيقةGeneral meaning( المعنى العام:علي حسين
Poet's intention: the poet wants to reflect his view that
humanity must get in touch with nature to progress spiritually.
Detailed meaning: The speaker complains that "the world" is
too overwhelming for us to appreciate it. We're so concerned
about time and money that we use up all our energy. People
want to accumulate stuff, so they see nothing in Nature that
they can "own." According to the speaker, we've sold our souls.
We should be able to appreciate beautiful events like the moon
shining over the ocean and the blowing of strong winds, but it's
like we're on a different wavelength from Nature. We're kind of
like, "Eh."
The speaker would rather be a pagan who worships an
outdated religion so that when he gazes out on the ocean (as
he's doing now), he might feel less sad. If he were a pagan,
he'd see wild mythological gods like Proteus, who can take
many shapes, and Triton, who looks like a mer-man.
Literary devices
Simile:
“And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;”
The poet has linked the howling of the winds with the sleeping
flowers.
Metaphor:
"We have given our hearts away"
In this line hearts represent attention, concern, enthusiasm or
life.
“Suckle in a creed outworn.”
In this line creed represents mother that nurses her child.
Kubla khan
72 :الصفحة
General meaning
The poem is about someone called Kubla khan.
Poet's intention
The poet wants to say that:
1. An artist has his own world, which should never be violated
by ordinary people who don't appreciate art.
2. An artist is just like a prophet who can tell what will happen in
the future.
Detailed meaning
The unnamed speaker of the poem tells of how a man named
Kubla Khan traveled to the land of Xanadu. In Xanadu, Kubla
found a fascinating pleasure-dome that was “a miracle of rare
device” because the dome was made of caves of ice and
located in a sunny area. The speaker describes the contrasting
composition of Xanadu. While there are gardens blossoming
with incense-bearing trees and “sunny spots of greenery,”
across the “deep romantic chasm” in Xanadu there are
“caverns measureless to man” and a fountain from which “huge
fragments vaulted like rebounding hail.” Amid this hostile
atmosphere of Nature, Kubla also hears “ancestral voices
prophesying war.” However, Kubla finds relief from this
tumultuous atmosphere through his discovery of the miraculous
sunny pleasure-dome made of ice.
In the last stanza of the poem, the narrator longs to revive a
song about Mount Abora that he once heard a woman play on
a dulcimer. The speaker believes that the song would transport
him to a dream world in which he could “build that dome in air”
and in which he can drink “the milk of Paradise.”
Theme
The poem deals with the problem between the art and the
artist.
Literary devices
Contrast
There is a contrast between the world of kubla khan and the
world of man, they are completely different.
Metaphor
Line 5 "Down to a sunless sea"
In this line, sunless sea represents death
Line 28 "And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean"
In this line, lifeless ocean represents death
Simile
There is one simile used in the poem in line 21 such as “huge
fragments vaulted like rebounding hail.” The fragments have
been compared to pieces of hailstorm to show their impacts.
