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24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Introduction to Innocence
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poetic art to material poetry
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The Ecchoing Green
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The cycle of life.
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Little Black Boy
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Spiritual Body and Physical Body are the same
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Nurse's Song (innocence)
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Companion poem- The nurse is a guide in life-representing God, the nurse recommends the children go home but gives the option to choose for themselves whether to go home or not
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Holy Thursday
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blind faith of many who go to church comparing them to a lost orphan only driven by blind faith in security that the church provides.
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The Lamb
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Companion poem- The Tyger
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On Another's Sorrows
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Gateway from innocence to experience (last poem in the book),
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Spring
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Industrial revolution- could be out enjoying natural world (buds clipped, blown away) but are in school learning set material
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A Cradle Song
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Innocence of children
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The Chimney Sweeper (innocence)
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Life is the bondage to the needs
protection (god) in second one (restrict) |
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The Divine Image
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Spiritual Body and Physical Body are the same
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Night
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is both good and bad in the world- in life it is easy to see the surface of something; to see a wolf, a “tyger” or a lion as bad. But within everything there is both good and bad-within a lion there is both the thirst for prey but also the ability to be a protector.
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Introduction to Experience
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There is a contrast between the “voice of the Bard” and the “Holy Word” of the governing father (God). These two beings are talking to the “lapsed souls” the poem presents the question of who will they listen to?
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Earth's answer
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institutionalized religion is the cause of the fallen state of the world.
reason chains her down let love free spirit free |
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A Little Girl Lost
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Blames society's hypocritical moral standards for the degradation of woman's sexual desires.
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The Tyger
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Industrial revolution
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London
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Industrial revolution and the rift between rich and poor (institutions and natural)
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The Little Vagabond
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Ideas towards organized religion
worship should be pleasure not trial |
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The Human Abstract
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companion with The Divine Image
the virtues are born out of evil, and bring it about (create the tree that mystery grows on) |
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A Dream
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Return to Innocence from Experience
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The Angel
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metamorphosis from child to adult
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Holy Thursday (experience)
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question social and moral injustice
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Laughing Song
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Describes the ideal romantic childhood, but explores lack of permeance.
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To Tirzah
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Mortal Birth, Mortal part, and Mortal Life
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