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This is a fully annotated version of the poem. Notes on structure, form, context and voice.

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sickness to the nurses bitterness The move
stagnation and convey
.




the noun in the wine to
from
adjective in line 4
suggests a move

to corruption




‘Nurse’s Song’ Experience
represent adulthood emerge + a
growing awareness of sexuality
direct echo of version

µ
innocence .




at




I ✓
When the voices of children are heard on the green
And whisp’rings are in the dale,
1 a. noun
-


reflect
to the
-

secrecy
the
ambiguous
- sinister
childrens appressed voices

in '
-




innocence !
in contrast


I gree speech


The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind, • contrast to the nite , the children are
gather

in
God to darkness
from + reduced a world
of
My face turns green and pale. cynicism
way
determiner entirely herself
repeated
-



focused on ironic -
memories are
fresh and return repeatedly but she isnt
was concerned
unlike in innocence ' who
devoid
nurse
fresh as she is
of life
w/ children

the innocence poem but no direct speech implying
foreboding echoes
-




command a conversation
Mk it is a not


[
Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
pm
innocence + fertility
idea

Your spring and your day are wasted in play,
the
rejects
' '
to innocence she
→ in contrast

+ denies them liberty
+ voice
-

repressive
of play

And your winter and night in disguise. figure




conjunctions -
inevitability and repeated resp
real children
onsewnenevertnecniiaren#
but what they evoke
may
not to the
are heard . She is responding
Ambiguous symbolic to
-


her
in mind
of adulthood + now she is forced
.




conceal her true to social role
self perform a .




cynical -
even the
purity of childhood is a presence .




is
lexis resentment as she no
longer enjoy
the pleasures of youth but
confined
negative can
-




to the role
of earegiser despite
not having children herself
.

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