Love (III) compared to The Clod and the Pebble How is love presented?
The Clod and The Pebble
Juxtaposition- Anthesis
Clod (Soft) Pebble (Hard)
Heaven and Hell
Structure
Direct Speech
Balanced construction
Voice- multiple POV
Pebble
Clod
"Sung" Positive conations- Joy
"Warbled" congested - negative
"Pebble" "Brook Plosives (Hard sounds)
"Clod" "Clay"
"Builds a Heaven in Hell's despair" / "Build a Hell in Heaven's despite"
Love (III)
Personification "Love" = God
Allegory of Holy Communion
"Taste my meat"
Hospitality
"Bade me welcome"
"Entrance in"
"A guest"
"Not Worthy"
Speaker - Very Humble
"Dust and sin"
Contaminated
"Drew back" / "Drew nearer"
Harmony but paradoxical
Relationship- 1 dialouge
2 monologues
The III represents the Holy Spirit
Concrete Poem- The stanzas are in a fixed shape
How to sturcture the essay
Paragraph 1 on Clod and the pebble
Parapgraph 2 Focus of Love (III) btu incerase
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