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this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

of what we have learned to accept in more recent times. That we are but one race of creatures that has existed for only a short t...

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

These 2 William Blake poems are compared in terms of theme, tone, and imagery in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

In three pages this paper considers the theme of lost innocence in a contrast and comparison of these William Blake poems. There ...

In four pages this paper examines how choice is featured in a contrast and comparison of the poems 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb' by W...

city with which he was intimately acquainted, London. The first two lines of the poem establish his thorough knowledge of the Lond...

Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...

the placement of the poem, offers the reader a sense of innocence and childhood as well as purity. The poem begins with...

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...

and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...

he falls from grace these divide from him. One of those identities is called Luvah, which was the part responsible for emotion and...

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...