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How do you like to go up in a swing, Robert Louis Stevenson is best known as the author of the children’s classic Treasure Island (1882), and the adult horror story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
Over the countryside—. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown—. Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down! This poem is in the public domain. The Swing - How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the ...
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- Analysis of The Swing
The poem begins with the speaker asking the listener how much they like to swing up into the blue air. This is a rhetorical question, as seen by the speaker’s quick response. They love it more than anything and think it’s the best thing a child could spend their time doing. In the next stanza, the child speaker describes how when they are swinging ...
Stevenson uses a number of poetic techniques in this text that make use of repetition. These include anaphora and assonance. Anaphora is seen in the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of the line. A very clear example is the refrain that begins four of the lines in this short poem, “Up in the air…” It occurs once in the first and secon...
Stanza One
In the first stanza of this piece, the speaker begins by asking a question. This question, and the lines that follow, make it clear that this speaker is a young child. It is unclear who the intended listener is supposed to be. It could also be a child or another adult the speaker is excitedly talking to. The question this child asks is about swinging “Up in the air so blue.” The phrase “Up in the air” is repeatedthroughout the poem. It appears in each stanza and begins a total of four lines....
Stanza Two
The firstline of the second stanza of ‘The Swing’ begins with the refrain, “Up in the air…” The speaker is imagining the best moments they have had on the swing and the joy they felt when they rose so high they could see “over the wall.” This gives the reader one simple detail about the setting. It is enough to where one can assume this swing is located within a distance of a structure, perhaps a house, or the boundaries of a farm or garden. When the child swings this high they are able to se...
Stanza Three
In the final four lines, Stevenson utilizes the bouncing motion of the rhyme and rhythm to simulate the up-and-down progress of the swing. The child has risen up to see over the wall, and then as the swing starts to fall they “look down” and see the “garden green.” This clarifies a bit more of the setting. The swing is in a garden and it is the garden wall the child is looking over. On the way back down the child also sees the “roof so brown.” It is the opposite of the countryside, as it is d...
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Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing. Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, River and trees and cattle and all. Over the countryside--. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown--. Up in the air I go flying again,
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Nov. 13, 1850. His father (Thomas) was a prosperous second-generation civil engineer. Destined to become a third generation engineer, Robert was not born a healthy baby. Due to his lack of physical strength and also lack of interest in his father's profession, he decided to study law.
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing. Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all. Over the countryside—. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown—. Up in the air I go flying again,
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing. Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all. Over the countryside—. Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown—. Up in the air I go flying again,
