Joe and woe by william black

Joe and woe by William Black

It✓ introduction of poet.....

" Great things are done , when men and mountain meet ......"
_ William Black.

✓ Born : 28 Nov , 1757
✓Death : 12 Aug , 1827
✓ occupation : poet , painter
✓ Nationality : England
✓ literary movement : romanticism
✓ Genre : visionary , poetry.
✓Notable works : 1] songs of innocence
& Experience.
2] The marriage of
Heaven & hell.
3] The four zoas.

✓ Preface ✓

In this short poem William Black want to give message that joy and grief both are part of life and both are good and very important in our life.

✓Analysis ✓

" Joy and work are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine;
Under every grief and pine ;
Runs a joy with silken twine ."

In the first stanza poet says that joy and woe are woven fine.woven means things which are attached in each other . Joy and work both are very important for life.they both are like clothes of soul.

Joy and woe = clothes of soul

In every grief,there are also joy, we need to find it.we are not here for only happiness or for only pain but we are made for both and when we know that joy and woe both are part of our life,we can live happily in grief also.

Joy . Woe
\ life balance /

Poet gave an example of silken twine.he is trying to say that worm of silk makes thread of silk with larva. The worm is suffering from pain. But the results of this pain is good.like this there are pain and happiness are not permanent.

" It is right it should be so ;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know;
Safely through the world we go."

In the second stanza poet is trying to say that accept both is trying to say that accept both pain and joy. Do not become unhappy when sad moment come.there are also happy moment too. Knows happy both are part of everyones life and love happily.

If there is always grief the life become very boring and the man feel that his life is full of pain.if there is always happiness than life becomes boring. Both are very important

Joy
|
Good & important

Woe
|
Good & important

Both joy and grief are incomplete without each other we should know and accept both joy and woe and accept both joy and woe and life happily because it is the truth of our life. Our life becomes incomplete without both joy and woe ( grief).

✓ Conclusion ✓

In the poem "joy" by William Black want to say that life is full of Joy and woe both are good . we should accept them.joy and woe are two different sides of a coin our life is like this coin.

Heads = Joy
Tails = Woe


✓ Rhyme scheme ✓

The poet has used 'AABB ' rhyming scheme.

✓ Personification ✓

The poet used Personification in the line....
1) A clothing for the soul divine...

✓ Contrast ✓

The poet has used contrast in the words like joy & woe and even in the meaning like eternal & Temporal, outer pain and inner joy.

✓ Metaphor ✓

In this poem metaphor is divine soul.

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