related to the nature of the speaker and the content of the poems.
William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the Romantic poets, whose poetry and artwork became part of Romanticism in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in European Culture. William Blake wrote in the time when the world was seeing a sudden change in many phases with the industrial revolution especially in Europe. Blake’s collections of poems in the Songs of Innocence and Experience exemplify the world around him in two perspectives. In both the perspectives, it has its own deep, hidden messages and meanings he indented to convey to the readers about the time and society he lived in.
Basically, the song of innocence is generally about the pastoral modes of life and portrays the child’s innocence. The poem, ‘Lamb’, is in rhymed couplets in a basic trochaic meter and is often found in children’s verse and enhances the impression of simplicity. The poem has the repetition of question and answer outline. This shows what all the children had to learn in Church of England. The poem is associated with religious instruction, at the same time; it …show more content…
Blake mainly criticizes the Church leaders, rich people and parents through songs of experience. The poem, the little boy lost from the songs of experience, emphases on the corrupt punishment of the innocent by the teachings of the Church, also criticizes on the view held by Blake's society, which the Church was righteous and respectable, when in fact it certified misuse and cruelty. In the poem the boy is mistreated because he questions the religious teaching that one should love God more than anything else, as the boy loves his family and nature equally as much as God. The priest, symbolizing these Church teachings, hears the boy's questioning of policy, is angered, and as a punishment for heresay, the boy was burned at the stake, while the father and family weeps for the
William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the Romantic poets, whose poetry and artwork became part of Romanticism in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in European Culture. William Blake wrote in the time when the world was seeing a sudden change in many phases with the industrial revolution especially in Europe. Blake’s collections of poems in the Songs of Innocence and Experience exemplify the world around him in two perspectives. In both the perspectives, it has its own deep, hidden messages and meanings he indented to convey to the readers about the time and society he lived in.
Basically, the song of innocence is generally about the pastoral modes of life and portrays the child’s innocence. The poem, ‘Lamb’, is in rhymed couplets in a basic trochaic meter and is often found in children’s verse and enhances the impression of simplicity. The poem has the repetition of question and answer outline. This shows what all the children had to learn in Church of England. The poem is associated with religious instruction, at the same time; it …show more content…
Blake mainly criticizes the Church leaders, rich people and parents through songs of experience. The poem, the little boy lost from the songs of experience, emphases on the corrupt punishment of the innocent by the teachings of the Church, also criticizes on the view held by Blake's society, which the Church was righteous and respectable, when in fact it certified misuse and cruelty. In the poem the boy is mistreated because he questions the religious teaching that one should love God more than anything else, as the boy loves his family and nature equally as much as God. The priest, symbolizing these Church teachings, hears the boy's questioning of policy, is angered, and as a punishment for heresay, the boy was burned at the stake, while the father and family weeps for the