Question

Explain the line 'sweet flowing ditty no mote'.

Answer 1

Answer:

the central celebration of the blackbird’s ‘sweet-flowing ditty’. The poem’s rhythm does not acknowledge a change in mood, but carries on lilting away in lively anapaests and lyrical diction: ‘long’, ‘lie’, ‘lowly’. It is as if the joyfully song-like rhythm has failed to notice what the words are actually saying. In the final stanza a chiastic pattern of alliteration (‘muse on the perishing pleasures of Man’: m/p/p/m) plays attractively on the strangely self-obsessed idea that symbolically fallen trees are the only sight that can engage Cowper’s attention – and then only just: ‘if any thing can’.

Answer 2

Answer:

the central celebration of the blackbird’s ‘sweet-flowing ditty’. The poem’s rhythm does not acknowledge a change in mood, but carries on lilting away in lively anapaests and lyrical diction: ‘long’, ‘lie’, ‘lowly’. It is as if the joyfully song-like rhythm has failed to notice what the words are actually saying. In the final stanza a chiastic pattern of alliteration (‘muse on the perishing pleasures of Man’: m/p/p/m) plays attractively on the strangely self-obsessed idea that symbolically fallen trees are the only sight that can engage Cowper’s attention – and then only just: ‘if any thing can’.

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