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HOLY THURSDAY EXPERIENCE
links to title rhetorical
Pronoun TB monosyllabic
,

1-
-




question cnallanges
Is this a holy thing to see, the adiective '


opposite is true
holy implying
.
' the




In a rich and fruitful land: England adjectives iaealise as a land
=D
-




Of pientny and fecundity .

the image of the



Mkemotive
verngubjegan.onanag.vn#Ri0XtaP0ses
Babes reduced to misery,
noun :
sympathy
fruitful
4-☒
Growth owe to malnourishment
empty
in
hand
this
land
in
to emotively
llnexepctetsie
reference to children being paraaied a
of plenty
.
. .




Fed with cold and usurous hand? → synecticcne
generosity but
ironic
-




is
should
limited
symbolise
and
↳ adjective : callousness 1- \ punitive .




lending

with high
inhumanity at odds money
with Christian charity .
interest .




tprsin according to Christianity implies
-




Is that trembling cry a song? the
i
Christian charity
cost of is too
great repression indoctrination and .

↳ fear / suffering
misery .




ironic rhetorical questions .
Can it be a song of joy? /




repition reflect oral sounds -
even the
religious
cant it be a song of choice are
songs corrupt .




And so many children poor? Ñm
if its produced by song
a


of misery and poverty
.
eric reference highlights
enormity of the problem


It is a land of poverty! → juxtaposes the rich and
fruitful land / hypopnora
↳ Short declarative exclamation realises
=
epipnony Speaker
-

the

suffering of the church t the churns
facade .




And their sun does never shine,
4k there hopeless
Symbolic of existence
created by sibilance Eunpleasant hissing
anaphora =
polysynthetic quality)
list negatively is an
-
=



Consuming And their fields are bleak and bare, → creates

where an
barren

positive
dystopia
natural
forces
are eradicated in

this urban heh enhanced by Ploss ive alliteration .




And their ways are filled with thorns;
↳ metaphorical for hardships faced by children t adults faced by poverty
-




illusion to

It is eternal winter there.
biblical thorns represent Jesus
the crown of sufferings -




as the
Sacrifice just working class are
sacrificed for the
greed
the
48 metaphor their Parnell s the end of elite .




for hopeless ,
Of verse 2 .




'
immediacy
'
is -
present tense =




For wheree'er the sun does shine.
]
echos previous images
as "
utopian Picture 99 " tea
-




in recitations

And wheree'er the rain does fall -
.




Babe can never hunger there,
]
of the church
darning indictment

suggesting there should not be
poverty and



Nor poverty the mind appal.
heaven should not be used as a
manipulative
tool to the
feirce poor into
aceqvescing
in their oppression .





echoed from London -
implies
both horror and ' '
pun on Pall
which alludes death =


real the
possibility for poor .
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