Songs of Innocence and of Experience

and protective over it. She would spend hours alone listening to one particular song, titled “Never Let Me Go,’ that she treasures dearly: “The only place I could listen properly was our dorm…So that’s where I used to go, in the day when no one else was likely to be about, to lay my song over and over” (70). Music plays a powerful role in relation to human memory, and for Kathy, even after many years have passed, this song brings back memories of her time at Hailsham and the friendships she…

Through this journey, a metaphorical journey, Jem and Scout become more experienced and they lose their innocence that they had throughout the novel. The “journey” can be interpreted as a metaphor for experience, this is similar to one of the common themes within this novel that is learning. The author makes several mentions to Scouts education and learning, not only in school, but her understanding of the…

Rap music is a constantly evolving art form that has historically given marginalized American minorities an outlet for emotions and an avenue to comfortably speak out against social injustice. Fernando Orejuela describes the aggressive style of rap that began in the late 1980s as the “Hardcore” era of rap music, which is characterized by popular artists creating aggressive and lyrically obscene music in response to racism. In order to understand the social utility of rap music, it is important…

Explication of “The Tyger” by William Blake Published with other poems in Songs of Experience collection in 1794, “The Tyger” is one of the most famous if not the most widely read poems by William Blake. Including “The Tyger,” the poet wrote most of his poems using his radical tone. In most of his works, he often railed against oppressive institutions such as the monarchy or the church as well as the other cultural traditions like classist, racist or sexist, which stifled passion or imagination…

innocent nature. But, the “one train of enjoyment” that is Victor’s life does not shield him from man’s vice. Victor’s corruption is made apparent for the reason of displaying a counterpoint that without any out of the ordinary extreme negative experiences corruption still occurs. Society, even in his life style, leads him to a different kind or of corruption—prejudice. Victor makes that evident when he first sees the eyes of his creation open and is filled with “breathless horror and disgust”…

emotional response. The technique of writing in the third person stresses the significance of the emotional connection a writer has with their story. This technique of utilizing the third person allows the reader to understand the pain that one can experience when writing about personal…

difference. In the garden party Mansfield is examining the border between the upper and lower classes through a young girl’s point of view. This achieves a sense of naïve innocence in the written voice that allows Mansfield to portray her real feelings on the social divide using devices like irony in the song Jose sings. This song talks of being weary of life, when the Sheridan girls have no…

encourage the love of reading. Parents are engaged in reading children books and literatures to their children to show their feelings about how much they adore their children. According to children 's literature, they are mostly symbolized as “youth”, “innocence” and “purity”. However, throughout this event, there is a diversity that was hidden behind the children’s literature. The event “The Queerness in Children’s Literature”, provided the brief summary about how most authors provided sexual…

As the story progresses, we start to see that she is not just any woman, but a Hispanic woman. Her Hispanic heritage is showcased as she deals with the sexuality that comes from becoming a mature lady. The individuals she meets along with her experiences…

miles from his home. As a train went chugging by Jacob took a split second of courage and jumped onto the train; which just so happens to be the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Throughout Jacob’s experience at the circus he falls in love with a married woman that…