Transcript On my first sonne’

‘On my first sonne’
By Ben Jonson
Attitudes and ideas
• This poem is written By Ben. Jonson
to his son Benjamin Jonson Jr, it is
written in a form of an elegy. Ben
Jonson wrote this poem because he
felt guilty about his son’s death
during his absence.
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Themes
Parent and child
Death
Anger
Guilt
Sadness
From these themes we can see
how upset he is by losing his son.
Language
• Archaic; shows that it was written a
long time ago and that it is a pre 1914
poem.
• Monologue; shows he is alone and
grieving.
• Rhyming couplets; helps the poem
flow, sounds like a prayer.
Structure
• Use of constant punctuation shows his
grief
• Enjambment
• Use of question marks highlight his
confusion at why he is being punished by
god and why his first son has been taken
away from him, also some biblical
reference to Moses and the last plague.
Comparison
• ‘Before you were mine
• ‘Song of the old mother’
• ‘Homecoming’
• These compare because they have
the theme of parent and child
relationships.
Why do you think this
poem is successful?
• We believe this poem to be successful
because Jonson has shown us how upset he
is in losing his son. We can pick this
statement out from where he compares his
son to his best piece of poetry, this shows
how much he feels for his son and how
proud he is to have kept him for as long as
he could.
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