Songs of Innocence and of Experience

being challenged or banned mainly for “profanity,” being "obscene," "immoral" and "negative activity" (Fight, 2013). With thousands of copies sold each year, this novel is a classic and deals with the issues of loss of innocence, alienation, and relationships. All teenagers experience at least one of these issues and it allows them to learn lessons from this book and witness another person going through them. Holden Caulfield, the main character in this novel, is sixteen years old which relates…

how Lawrence portrays despair in “Piano”. Lawrence uses harsh words as well as strong imagery to convey his ideas of being unable to fight his memories. This is seen the first line of the second stanza, “In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song betrays me…

Anne Sexton gives us a glimpse into the most intimate parts of her life through her confessional poem, “The Double Image.” Since Sexton is confessing about her life after post-traumatic stress disorder, we would assume that she is always being completely honest; however, we see that some events of the poem are merely figments of her imagination. Just when we think we understand, she hits us with the brutal reality that is her life. Sexton uses rhymes and writes in child-like phrases to explain…

The Dangers of being Certain Though doubt has always held a negative connotation in my mind, a dark shadow that looms over certainty, truth, and progress, John Patrick Shanley, through his film, not only claims but makes us feel quite the opposite: that doubt is in fact a valuable asset in gaining an objective view when determining “good” from “bad” and discovering the truth. Stanley utilises the two main characters in his film to depict the dangers of acting upon certainty without doubt. I…

boot-blacking factory to provide for and help his family. As he was sent to make income and survive without the main money maker of the household, Dickens began to understand the true challenges of life. Charles would often state he lost his “youthful innocence” when he began working at the age of twelve and felt abandoned by the adults who were meant to care for him (Charles Dickens Biography). Despite such hardships in his life, Dickens found joy in journalism as he worked with several…

Explanation: In this allusion, Bradbury is alluding to a poem written by William Blake called The Tyger. Published in 1794, this was one of the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. In the poem, a tiger is the main focal point of the work symbolizing power. The Tyger shares the symbolism of fire, just like in Fahrenheit 451. “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night” (“Tyger”). 5. Allusion/Type:…

out his creator unknowingly. Rejected by society he flees into the wilderness, and with his innocent rapture, he eagerly soaks up the sights and sound. He is innocent in the same way an infant is innocent, “Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.”(Shelley,6.2). He begins to spy on a family living in a…

Children literature includes books, magazines, stories and poems that children enjoy. It can be traced to stories and songs which were part of the oral tradition that adults shared with their children before the advent of publication. The development of children literature is difficult to trace. However, from the 15th century AD, a large volume of literature, often with a religious or moral message, has been targeted specifically at children. Many of the children books acknowledged today as…

Old Enough I believe sex education should be taught starting in the fifth grade in order to help prevent or reduce early sexual promiscuity and child sexual abuse, to avoid incidents of pregnancies and diseases, and to discourage intolerance of sexual minorities. All of these issues are associated with mental and physical health complications as well as socioeconomic complexities that are essential knowledge to achieve levels of civic effectiveness that this nation requires of its citizens.…

their own stars with drugs. Judy Garland and other young stars were worked incredibly hard and often struggled with the demands of appearing in film after film with no break. In 1969 an article in, The New York Times, quoted Garland recounts this experience… “No wonder I was strange. Imagine whipping out of bed, dashing over to the doctor's office, lying down on a torn leather couch, telling my troubles to an old man who couldn't hear, who answered with an accent I couldn't understand, and then…