English Poetry from Romantics to Moderns Lecture 5

6- Rhyme: the use of words with similar sounds in poetry, usually but not always at the ends of lines.

· القافية: استخدام الكلمات مع أصوات مماثلة في الشعر، وعادة ما ولكن ليس دائما في

نهايات الأسطر .

7- Stanza: a group of lines in a poem divided off from the others. Each stanza is usually the same number of lines in length.

· المقطع: مجموعة من الخطوط في قصيدة مقسمة الخروج من الآخرين. كل مقطع عادة

ما يكون على نفس العدد من خطوط الطول.

William Blake (1757-1827)

The Little Black Boy

1 My mother bore me in the southern wild, 2 And I am black, but O! my soul is white; 3 White as an angel is the English child, 4 But I am black, as if bereav'd of light. 5 My mother taught me underneath a tree, 6 And sitting down before the heat of day, 7 She took me on her lap and kissed me, 8 And pointing to the east, began to say: 9 "Look on the rising sun: there God does live, 10 And gives his light, and gives his heat away; 11 And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive 12 Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. 13 And we are put on earth a little space, 14 That we may learn to bear the beams of love; 15 And these black bodies and this sunburnt face 16 Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. 17 For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear, 18 The cloud will vanish; we shall hear his voice,

6

19 Saying: 'Come out from the grove, my love and care, 20 And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.' " 21 Thus did my mother say, and kissed me; 22 And thus I say to little English boy, 23 When I from black and he from white cloud free, 24 And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, 25 I'll shade him from the heat, till he can bear 26 To lean in joy upon our father's knee; 27 And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, 28 And be like him, and he will then love me.

· Commentary التعليق

· This is one of the “Songs of Innocence”.

· هذه هي واحدة من أغاني "البراءة"

· It was written by Blake as an attempt on his part to help in abolishing slave- trade.

· كتبت من قبل بليك بأنه محاولة من جانبه للمساعدة في القضاء على الاتجار بالرقيق

· It is a plea against “racial discrimination”.

· إنه التماس ضد "التمييز العنصري".

· He believes that people are equal regardless of their color Despite of its political subject, Blake here makes use of two major ideas which are intermingled:

· يعتقد أن الناس متساوون بغض النظر عن لونهم وبالرغم من موضوعه السياسي،

هنا يجعل بليك استخدام اثنين من الأفكار الرئيسية التي تختلط:

· A-The Idea that to be good needs an effort and those who suffer more are thought to be religiously better.

· فكرة أن تكون جيدة تحتاج إلى جهد وأولئك الذين يعانون ويعتقد أن أكثر من أن

تكون أفضل من الناحية الدينية.

Posted in: 1757-1827, Blake, Commentary, Rhyme, Songs of Innocence, Stanza, The Little Black Boy, William