... literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second poem, through an experienced narrator, the true plight of child laborers: "Crying'weep! weep!' in notes of woe!" While searching for more information regarding the child laborers of this time I found several notes that the word "weep ... that trembling cry a song?" Again, Blake uses the contrasts of these two poems to condemn what is really happening and those who are responsible for it. These poems fit into the Romantic tradition because they focus on the commonplace, force the reader to explore the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and gentle God of Innocence, created or allowed the creation of the miseries that abound in Experience. According to A. Powell, "The author notes that the perfect, beautiful, symmetrical, work of art (the tyger) is such a destructive animal: here Blake is identifying the idea that there, ... Jehovah, Nobodaddy (Nobody's Daddy, a contemptuous colloquial 'contrary' to Father of All, the title that the votaries of conventional Protestantism claimed for their tyrannical deity). This God was figured as an authoritarian deity in Blake's engravings, as an old man with flowing white hair to...

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• Grade Level: High School