... , it is told in an honest, childlike way. In contrast to the line, "Has found thy bed, Of crimson joy," from "The Sick Rose", which also suggests the penetration of female sexual organs, the tone is massively adverse. The latter metaphor sounds cruel and full of negative sexual feelings, of the pleasure given to one partner through the weakness of the ... left to "sulk" in hypocrisy upon his "mother's breast". It is clear that Blake saw childhood as one of the most crucial parts of a human's life, if not most. The infants are sown with seeds of either misery or optimism. Blake points out...

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