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ENGLISH
From Prose to Poetry From Fiction to Reality
MEDIA Videoclip
Another Brick in the Wall ( Pink
Floyd) Ebony Ivory (Beatles) Videoclip
Material-Child
The Masters Mistake by Henry
Lawson (1900)
The Little Black Boy by William Blake
(1789)
A la recherche de l'enfance perdue-retrouvée
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Growing up with poetry
Money get backI'm all right, JackKeep your
hands off my stacknew car
caviarfour star daydreamThink I'll buy me a
football team.
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Uno? Nessuno? Centomila?
Anotrher Brick in the Wall explores the dangers
of repressing the creative self where POETRY not
only helps the individual to survive the horrors
of war but to grow up to be a thinking individual
capable of expressing and experiencing BEAUTY
Pink Floyd
Another Brick in the Wall
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The Master's Mistake
Mateship
Sacrifice
adult-child
Dear Sir, your
son William was absent from school today.
Yours Sincerely The Master
Initiation the passage from child to adult by
growing aware of the Otherness through sacrifice
of the Self Reconciliation of the opposites a
non manichean vision of Cain and Abel through
Mateship
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HENRY LAWSON (1867 - 1922) Henry Lawson
was an Australian poet and writer. Many believe
he was the first poet to capture the Australian
way of life. Henry Lawson was born in 1867, on a
goldfield in rural New South Wales. His father
was mining there, and times were tough. The
Lawsons were very poor. Henry didn't get a good
education, but his mother gave him lots of
books.Henry was a shy, sensitive child. He
wasn't like most bush boys. Even his mother
thought he was a bit strange.When he was nine
years of age, Henry got an ear infection and went
partly deaf. By the time he was fourteen years
old he was totally deaf. The kids at school
tormented Henry and he became more of a loner.
But this made him even better at observing
people...looking at the way they act. Henry
Lawson grew up to be a quite bitter and confused
man.He always believed things would get better
... but it seemed he didn't have much luck in
life.His writing was a way for him to express
his feelings.Much of his inspiration came from
the Australian bush, and its people. Because he'd
known the hardships of bush life Henry Lawson
could understand its ways. Although his own life
was often unhappy, Henry Lawson was kind to
others. He found time for those less fortunate
than himself. He felt he had something in common
with homeless people.Henry got sick., both in
mind and body. He spent time in a mental
hospital, and never really recovered.
In his characters he celebrates the idealistic
concept of mateship.
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CONTEXT
The bush consists of stunted, rotten native apple
trees, no undergrowth.
Nineteen miles to the nearest civilisation - a
shanty on the main road ... There is nothing to
see, however, and not a soul to meet.
You might walk for twenty miles along this track
without being able to fix a point in your mind,
unless you are a bushman. This is because of the
everlasting, maddening sameness of the stunted
trees.(Source The Drover's Wife byHenry Lawson)
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BLAKE the VISIONARY
William Blake (1757-1827) English painter,
engraver and poet, was born in London.


From the age of seven he habitually saw a
white-bearded God peering in through his window,
or angels perching in trees. Blake claimed to
have seen "a tree filled with angels, bright
angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.
He returned home and
reported this vision, and he only escaped being
thrashed by his father for telling a lie through
the intervention of his mother.. On another
occasion, Blake watched haymakers at work, and
thought he saw angelic figures walking among them
An admirer of Dürer, Michelangelo and Raphael and
a friend of Fuseli, Blake was extremely
eccentric. He walked the streets in a Phrygian
bonnet. His work, still obscure, suggests a new
version of Christianity, whose radicalism lies in
its visual Symbolism.. In Songs of Innocence
(1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) the world
is seen from a child's point of view, directly
and simply but without sentimentality.


In the first group, which
includes such poems as The Chimney Sweeper and
The Little Black Boy, both the beauty and the
pain of life are captured. The latter group,
reveal a consciousness of cruelty and injustice
in the world, for which people, not fate, are
responsible..
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Without Contraries there is no Progression
William Blakes volume of poetry entitled Songs
of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of
his belief that innocence and experience were
the two contrary states of the human soul, and
that true innocence was impossible without
experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems
either written from the perspective of children
or written about them. Innocence is the inner
state of innocence, freedom and imagination, a
state identified with childhood. Experience,
instead, means the experience brought by man's
laws and institutions, is the world of normal
adult life, when people are incapable of
spontaneity and imagination. His vision of life
is made not of contraries but of complementary
opposites Moreover Blake believed that only
intuition and imagination bring man into contact
with true reality.
Child, poet and God share this power of
vision Blake also believed that children lost
their innocence through exploitation and from a
religious community which put dogma before
mercy..
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When I from black and he from white cloud free,
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I Have a DREAM
The Little Black Boy is a poem by William Blake
published in Songs of Innocence Blake believed in
equality for all men, and this is reflected in
this poem. The Little Black Boy" was published in
1789, a time when slavery was still legal and the
campaign for the abilition of slavery was still
young. In "The Little Black Boy", Blake questions
conventions of the time with basic Christian
morality. This becomes
apparent in the third stanza, where Blake uses
the sun as a metaphor for God and His Kingdom.
The reference to the sun "rising" introduces us
the fact that it is connotes change. Several of
his poems and paintings express a notion of
universal humanity "As all men are alike (tho'
infinitely various)".
outcast-child
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Childrens commercial culture has quite
successfully usurped kids boundless creativity
CREACTION
What is most troubling is that childrens culture
has become virtually indistinguishable from
consumer culture over the course of the last
century. The cultural marketplace is now a key
arena for the formation of the sense of self and
of peer relationships, so much so that parents
often are stuck between giving into a kids
purchase demands or risking their child becoming
an outcast on the playground.
material child
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REFLECTION
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Whatever happened to the child-poet? Is he
hiding in you?
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Nobodys child
ARE you ready for MORE ? Surf the net and enter
the poetry lane at the Italian crossroad (
scuola media) and find out what meaning this
word MORE had for Oliver Twist who lived in
Charles Dickens Victorian England find out
what it was like for Oliver to work in a
workhouse and then watch the videoclip and add
captions about the Workhouse or a short poem on
what the film sequence inspires you with. BE
CREATIVE !!!!!!!