... request for help with this that I received She said: "I am a GCSE student taking english literature. I have been asked to write an essay comparing the two poems A Poison Tree by William Blake and You in Anger by James Reeves. I would greatly appreciate any ideas or tips you could give me for my essay. Thank ... face of someone the poet loves - tell you something different in each case about the poet's feelings? I guess from the titles that the Blake and Reeves poems are about emotions. It is emotions or some other strong impression that often bring a poem out of its hiding place in the p...

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... things like religion, the way that adults had to work and the way that the industrial revolution came into the perspective. These two collections contain some of the best-known poems in the English language. Blake really explores the contradicting stakes of innocence and experience. The Lamb from Songs of Innocence and The Tiger from Songs of Experience demonstrate these contradictions ... excellently, effectively and very well. Songs of Innocence is a collection of poems that see the natural world without fear. They are all written with the voice of a child. These poems are about a saf...

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... case. It is therefore possible to suggest that the Songs of Innocence and of Experience presents polarized depictions of childhood. Consequently, two poems from the Songs of Innocence and of Experience will be compared and contrasted to answer the question of how the text relates to ... which these children struggle to survive. In his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Blake presents often contrasting and conflicting visions of childhood. Poems such as "Laughing Song", "Spring", and "Nurse's Song" (from Songs of Innocence) detail a highly idealistic ... , innocent and idyllic Romantic...

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... contrasting views concerning nature. The intention of both William Blake and William Wordsworth is to portray their own deeply felt views in their poems. They put on display divergent insights based upon their conflicting observations, and, indeed, their very different literary aims. William Blake lived during ... emotional privation is directly linked with the work they have to do, and demonstrates the continuous circumstances of anguish they live in. Wordsworth's poems are in conflict between nature and humanity. Unlike society, Wordsworth doesn't see nature as a product but sees it f...

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... with darkness- symbolizing the dark side of man. On the other hand, The Lamb consists only of epithets denoting mildness and kindness. In both poems Blake uses repetition, but the purpose if opposite. For example, the double use of the word "dread" implies that the creator of ... Lamb sound like refrain and the phrase "little lamb" signifies the innocent character of the child and of his creator. Both poems consist of only one exclamatory sentence, each emphasizing respectively on the good and bad nature of Him and thus referring to the contrary states ... revolution, like the animal sy...

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... world in which we live, and how we see things differently when we are first in a state of innocence and when we reach maturity. The poems are presentations of a contradiction between innocence and experience, two areas of life through which we all must pass and are, in initial appearance at least, ... very similar to the genre of late eighteenth-century children's poetry, in terms of theme, title and simplicity. The subject matter of the poems would have been familiar at the time, with titles such as The Lamb and The Divine Image sounding like childrens' hymns. A point to make about ... ...

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... shows some innocence, although he presumably is somewhat older and more experienced. An element that emphasizes a degree of innocence in both speakers is an expression that is used in both poems. The line: "Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!" from poem 1, and the line: "Crying " 'weep, 'weep," in notes of woe ... interested in religion. He was especially angry with the Anglican Church for its double standards and its cynical way of preying on people's conscience. In both poems, religion is portrayed in different ways. In poem 1, we see the chimney sweepers' naive, innocent ...

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... as seen by the revered poet William Blake. He lived and crafted his finest masterpieces during the era of Romanticism, which is marked by the earliest poems of William Blake in 1783 (Anthology, pg 3). Along with Wordsworth, modern poetry was created (Anthology, pg 8). During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, poetry ... the way society should be, not the way it is (Notes, 6/27). Society is full of hunger, suffering, and poverty. Both Holy Thursday poems enrich each other because they are complimentary. Each provides a different aspect and tone on the irony of Holy Thursday and what ...

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... related content and imagery to represent his viewpoints of innocence and experience. "The Ecchoing Green" and "London" are two particular poems from these books that can be considered companion poems. Clearly Blake's double vision about the world is satisfied by these two poems. They are linked to each other by their content and imagery and the establishment of opposing tones and settings. "The ... Ecchoing Green" from Blake's Songs of Innocence is the first from this set of companion poems. Blake's innocence poems are typically of a livelier and happier tone. In the first stanza, happi...

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... be guidance and expression of hope the second is clearly a condemnation of the tragedy of the polarized classes of the time. The two poems, "Holy Thursday" are also an excellent example of the common man, or in this case child, being used as a focus of literary work. I ... touches slightly on interest in the supernatural. I have very little experience with discussing poetry and literature, especially English literature. I find the contrasts in these poems to be exhilarating and thought provoking and wonder if maybe a part of Romanticism was really how society had an unrealistic view of w...

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... of experience through a sense of parallels, which reflects upon the expression "there is no progression without contraries". In the three sets of poems, "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Nurse's Song", Blake explores the ... two disparate but connected perspectives of our human lives through vivid concrete imagery, powerful abstract symbols, and ingenious juxtaposition. In the poems "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", Blake depicts two different aspects of childbirth and the relationships between the child and the ... the poem "Infant Sorrow", which demonstrates...

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... vehicles for Blake to express what he feels happens to people as they grow, develop and eventually become perverted by the world around them. In the poems, "The Tyger" and "The Lamb", William Blake uses symbolism, tone, and rhyme to express the theme that God can create ... language for Heaven or Hell. It suggests that either God or the Devil, or both, could have been responsible for Creation itself. The questions these poems ask are ultimate ones, and while the answers are implied in the poem, they cannot be answers because the way people interpret the words are different ... the lam...

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... reader an image of the devil. AS with the poem "The Lamb" all the elements used in "The Tiger" are necessary for the total meaning of the poem. William Blake's poems "The Tiger" and "The Lamb" are different on many levels, the main difference being the tone that is set. The tone in "The Lamb" is childlike and innocent, referring to ... God, and the tone in "The Tiger" is dark, evil, and experienced. The reason for the difference in tones relates to the topics of the two poems, "The Lamb", about good and God, and "The Tiger", about evil and the Devil. One cannot use similar words or tone...

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... is mostly known for his two early collections, The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience. Being also a talented painter he printed his poems as graphical sheets with his own engravings. Blake stood for his ideas all his life. He supported and the French and American revolutions what he ... will never enter it. ( Mark 10:15) The works of William Blake are often mentioned as painted visions. The pictures he gives in his poems, especially The Songs, are not merely descriptive visions but dramatic and deeply psychological works. The world of innocence is painted through the perceptio...

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... the best are both which are entitled The Chimney Sweeper. In Songs of Innocence, all of the poems revolve around children, and the way a child sees or learns about God. The children in all of these poems are basically bereft of experience, but at this young age, they are beginning to or are forced ... in this way, Blake uses the presence of God or his angels to help portray this innocence. Blake also uses the innocence of the children in these poems to prelude to the experience they will all ultimately have to endure. In The Chimney Sweeper, the young boy, barely able to say the word "...

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... biography, William Blake was not just a poet, but also a painter, engraver, and visionary mystic. His hand-illustrated series of lyrical and epic poems, beginning with Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , form one of the most strikingly original and independent bodies of work in the Western cultural ... of Experience is the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an expansion of Blake's first illuminated book Songs of Innocence. These poems are also printed by copperplate engraving and colored by hand in watercolors. The reason behind writing Songs of Innocence, th...

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... truth, human rights, industrialisation, child labour, and the complexity of his ideas contradict the simplicity in language and construction that Blake uses in his poems. This clearness does not always mean the poem is easy to understand, but it does serve to create a sober mood that parallels the radical ... simplicity of each piece and draws out their serious, more complicated aspects. The poems published in The Songs of Innocence shows life through the eyes of innocent children, when the child's imagination has simply the function of ... They show a world in which God is trusted unco...

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... art frequently illustrate the general disposition of the people during a specific time. Certainly this is true of William Blake's two poems, "London" and "The Ecchoing Green". Both poems have two very different perspectives on their settings. Also, the speakers in each poem have very diverse attitudes. Lastly, ... moods for the reader. Because of these completely opposing viewpoints about the same place, "London" and "The Ecchoing Green" can be considered companion poems. In the poem, "The Ecchoing Green" from Blake's Songs of Innocence, there is an overall happy tone throughout the poem...

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... or two things in common. Well first of all they were brilliant authors who mastered the English language. They all wrote brilliant poems. But! They also managed to do something else. It's something that I don't really agree with. Before this class I never thought that ... poems "meant" something but I've heard so much new stuff about poems and that they have a meaning. William Blake's poems all have something in common he is always criticizing the society which he lives in. He seems like a ... the world as something you should be afraid of because its terrible because of what the human ...

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... occurrences differently as a child than as an adult. Childhood is a period of life every person experiences, and therefore can relate to. In the following four poems the poet attempts to stir feelings and emotions about childhood in the reader. In each poem the child has to or has lived through something horrible. In "The ... of the death of his friends while he was a boy. As far as the tone of these four poems is concerned, all are very serious poems and that can be sensed in the under layer of the poems. In the "The Chimney Sweeper," William Blake uses irony. The tone seems carefree an...

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... to the engraver James Basire. This is where he developed his skills. He worked as an engraver, illustrator, and drawing teacher. During this time, he also wrote poems. His Songs of Innocence was published in 1789 and Songs of Experience was published in 1793. In 1794 an edition that combined both of the two, Songs of ... and became depressed, he shut himself out from the rest of the world for the remainder of his live (Sparknotes). The Lamb is one of the first of the poems in Blake's Songs of Innocence. In this poem, I take it as the Lamb symbolizing Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Lamb of God...

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... about the coming night. The reader is also aware of the human feeling of being helpless in The Divine Image. Through a human relationship to these poems, and by striving to find them, readers are able to pick out images of innocence and experience. Innocence is seen in The Divine Image as ... they grow older. The speaker also shows her experience through her concern for the children, as night approaches in the second stanza. In both poems, the relationship of child to adult is used to convey images of innocence and experience. While experience is seen in Nurse's Song, the general ... to ...

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... or poets you have studied In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, by William Blake, imagery and sound are both very important. They help express ideas effectively and link the poems together. Blake uses different types of imagery, the first of which is nature imagery. In London, the "charter"d Thames does flow". The Thames is part of nature but in London ... and laughing the other makes one think of a sickly woman, looking at the children and resenting their youth. The use of the same colour in two parallel poems by Blake helps link the two poems and form an effective contrast. Another...

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... clearly. By seeing more clearly we are able to understand more about the hard and unforgettable times the Albanians and Patagonians had. This theme of seeing clearly relates to the poems "Design" by Robert Frost, "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats and "The Tyger" by William Blake. These three ... poems do not directly deal with death, but by reading them you feel that the poems are indeed talking about deaths. Deaths as in something evil, not a pleasant normal death. These poems relate to the movie in that the poems are saying that death is not pleasant, as in the movie, many ....

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... and Hell, p. 258) Comment on the value of reading Blake's poetry through this proposition and support your argument with at least two poems. Suspended between the neoclassicism of the eighteenth century and the early phases of Romanticism, William Blake belongs to no single poetic age. Only in ... that the universe was opposed between perpetually opposing forces such as good and bad, light and dark4. It is evident through these two poems that the processes of racial and class discrimination produce children that are constrained by the prevailing values of the dominant culture - the whit...

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