summary of the echoing green of class 7
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The poem The Echoing Green (originally Ecchoing Green) by William Blake is written in the appreciation of nature in simple terms. However, if we go deep into it, we will find the theme of life and death in the world. The poem is told by a young child who is playing in the “Echoing Green” park.
The poem has been divided into three stanzas which if we go deep, depict the three stages of life. Each stanza is divided into 10 lines and the rhyme scheme is AABB. Another interesting thing worth noticing is that the first two stanzas end in “On the Ecchoing Green” while the final stanza ends in “On the darkening Green”. We will discuss this in the end.
Stanza 1
The poet says that the sun rises and makes the skies happy i.e. when the sun arises, light spreads across the sky making it look beautiful and fresh. Next, he says that the merry bells ring to welcome the Spring. ‘Merry Bells’ probably refer to the Church Bells which ring in the morning. They are merry because they welcome the beautiful morning of spring.
The sky-lark and thrush and the birds of the bush sing louder around to the bells’ cheerful sound. Skylark and thrush fly high in the air while the birds of bush like sparrows remain near the ground. Thus according to the poet, all the birds also sing in the spring morning loudly which adds to the joyful sound of bells.
In simple words, the chirping of all the birds and the ringing of bell welcome the spring. In the next line, the poet says that while all these things are going on, their sports are going on the ecchoing green.
For the first time, in the poem, we come to know that the speaker is a child who is playing with others in the green park which is echoing. Echo means a reflection of sound. But here echo symbolises the cycle of life because all this happens every morning and keeps repeating.
Stanza 2
The child says that Old John, with white hair laughs away care. ‘Old John’ simply refers to an old man and ‘white hair’ depict his final years of life. Laugh away means forgetting the problems of life by being happy and laughing. ‘Care’ here means the thoughts of being old and fear of death.
Thus the lines mean that John, who is an old man with grey hair is also in the park and is laughing without caring about his old age and approaching death. Note that in the previous stanza, the children are too playing but don’t know about death or old age experiences. Hence they are innocent while this old man knows about all this but ignores them by laughing.
He is sitting under the oak tree along with other old people. The oak tree here not only means a tree in the park but also strength and longevity, and shelter for the old men. It is also a symbol of experience like old men. There are other old men as well. All of them laugh at the play of children. This is the laugh which we find in the first line of this stanza.
Seeing the children playing, they start memorising about their own youth-time. Like the children, they too used to enjoy when they were young on the ecchoing green. As described earlier, here ecchoing green refers to the cycle of life.
Earlier it was the old men who used to enjoy and now that they are old, their place is taken by the new children and this cycle will continue for eternity.
Stanza 3
The children get tired and no one can enjoy. It is the time when the sun is about to descend i.e. darkness is about to come. All of the children stop playing and go back to home. They (brothers and sisters) sit in the laps of their mothers like the bird chicks flock around their mother in the nest.
It’s time for their rest as it is night now. Hence on the darkening Green, no playing of children is seen. Unlike the other two stanzas, this stanza ends in “darkening green” because it is the end of the day and for the old men, it is the end of their life.
Dark Green is not cheerful but dread and scary. Thus it is the end of one life. There will be a new day, there will be new children and those who were playing will get old and sit under the oak tree and this cycle will go on.
Theme
In this poem, the main theme of Romantic Age is quite visible i.e. return to the nature. Nature provides everything for the children, for the birds and even for the old men. Those living in the urban areas are deprived of this priceless gift.
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We are asked to write a summary of the poem echoing green. The summary of the poem echoing green is as under:
- This question has been taken from the poem 'The Echoing Green.'
- William Blake wrote "The Echoing Green".
- This poem talks about the merry sounds made by the children while enjoying playing outdoors.
- There is an old man who remembers how he used to play like these children when he was a small boy.
- It is a poem full of joy and shows the start of spring.
- This season makes the old man remember his childhood which will be similar to these children when they are old.
- They will also remember how they used to play in these green meadows.
- Just as the seasons come and go so also the age of the person keeps on going.
- Just as after the spring the winter season will arrive which is a very harsh season similarly childhood will pass and the harsh realities of old age will set in.
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