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After becoming a chimney sweep, Tom’s head was shaved, presumably by his master or boss, in order to prevent soot from destroying or contaminating it. While Tom cried, however, our narrator finds solace in the experience, claiming in lines seven and eight that it, “for when your head's bare, / You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." This is the first introduction of Blake’s metaphor which uses black and white as vessels through which he discusses corruption…

of Innocence are very different from those he uses in Songs of Experience. In his poetry, William Blake uses archetypes to illustrate the ideas of innocence, strength, and the power of optimism. First of all, in his poem entitled “The Lamb,” William Blake uses the lamb as an archetype for innocence. In the poem, he is asking…

For most people, death is a one time experience. If anything is perceived from the closeness to death or the fews moments before life’s door fully closes shut is lost to the departed soul, never to be known by friends or family. But for thousands of people each year out of the millions that pass away they become lucky enough to be brought back from situations where they were their body was on the brink of shutting down or had fully gone to the other side. These lucky few not only get to give…

helping her escape. Liz cannot help but to care for Reddington, but as she is running from the government, Liz’s anagnorisis finally hits. She knew that ever since she let Reddington into her life she would only know a world full of near death experiences, crime, and corruption. Aristotle said, “A man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” Liz knows that Reddington is the root of her downfall, and multiple times throughout the show Liz sees that, but it is not…

children whom yell “weep”, not because they are crying, but because they can not pronounce sweep. In two poems we are told similar stories of chimney sweeping children. But what differences can be found between the two children? In the poem of “Experience” the boy is yelling “weep” and while doing so he is asked by someone as to where his parents are and to their surprise they are at the church praying. On the other hand in the poem “Innocence” the boy is completely ignored and we are told by…

I have had a near death experience, but I have also heard many stories about near death. Death comes to anybody and everybody, no matter the time. When your death chance may come nobody knows when and where it will happen. Throughout the stories I have heard, nobody knows that it is coming until it's too late. Everybody has said throughout their experiences that after they almost died their priorities change. When I was in a car accident my priorities changed such as I used to only think…

“are gone to praise God and his priest, and King, who make up a heaven of out misery,” (1465). I think the first child seems to be not as mature or as old as the second child. The first child is so optimistic while the second seems to know from experience that the situation is…

While many people have claimed to go "somewhere beyond" and see strange things during near-death experiences, little can be done to prove these people right or wrong. It is nearly impossible to grasp the full concept of death and the unknown, however, evidence provided by those who've survived these close encounters generates a great deal of controversy regarding the possibility of the strange things that they have claimed to see through the change in the survivors perception of life and/or way…

they go together even though they are clearly two completely different. “The Lamb” is about the goodness and meekness side of God and the innocence he has put in the world, while “Tyger” is about the power and fearful side of God also representing Experience. So, even thought the two poems are different from one another, they balance each other making the power of God…

In William Blake’s poetical verses explaining the two contrary states of human existence, he observes the world with an extensive view from a state of “innocence and of an imagination unspoiled by stains of worldliness” (Keynes 12), and from a state of “indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind as he saw them in the streets of London (Keynes 12). Holding firm to such ideologies as proposed by John Milton and Emmanuel Swedenborg, Blake believed in the philosophy that because all men were…