Throughout the semester, we read Parker’s text who believes that “A center holds together the things that surround it. If readers find a center, then they can see how the center organizes the things around it into a secure, stable, unified system.” However, deconstructionists believe that the system cannot be secured or unified. A deconstructionist’s job is to weaken and take apart a text in a process called doubling reading. From Blake’s Poetry, the focus will be on doubling reading in the poem, The Little Black Boy. Along with double reading, close reading is another literary method that this research paper will focus on, as well. Close reading is paying attention to certain words in the poem. Words are that are being repeated, symbols, paradox,
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The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice. Saying: come out from the grove my love & care. And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice. Repetition was also depicted in this The Little Black Boy. In the first two stanzas he started out each one by saying “My mother”. I think by him saying my mother in the first two stanzas is his way of showing us readers how important his mother will be throughout the poem and letting us know that the role she plays is very significant. “My mother bore me in the southern wild.” “My mother taught me underneath a tree.” Both lines are relevant to the poem overall because, because of the southern wild is where he experienced what he went through and underneath that tree is where his mother taught him how to survive in the southern wild and prepared him for the trials she knew were ahead of him. In The Little Black Boy, paradox was portrayed when the narrator was talking about the color of his skin. Going back to the binary opposite of white representing light and black representing darkness, it is a paradox because his black outside that represents the darkness is what allows his white soul to shine and have light. Paradox and irony are similar because both meaning will say one thing/believes in something but go against that belief or do/say something that
The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice. Saying: come out from the grove my love & care. And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice. Repetition was also depicted in this The Little Black Boy. In the first two stanzas he started out each one by saying “My mother”. I think by him saying my mother in the first two stanzas is his way of showing us readers how important his mother will be throughout the poem and letting us know that the role she plays is very significant. “My mother bore me in the southern wild.” “My mother taught me underneath a tree.” Both lines are relevant to the poem overall because, because of the southern wild is where he experienced what he went through and underneath that tree is where his mother taught him how to survive in the southern wild and prepared him for the trials she knew were ahead of him. In The Little Black Boy, paradox was portrayed when the narrator was talking about the color of his skin. Going back to the binary opposite of white representing light and black representing darkness, it is a paradox because his black outside that represents the darkness is what allows his white soul to shine and have light. Paradox and irony are similar because both meaning will say one thing/believes in something but go against that belief or do/say something that