Essay Songs about Life - 712 Words

In Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789 and 1794), William Blake arouses readers minds and leads them into a path of finding their own answers and conclusions to his poems. He sets up his poems in the first book, Songs of Innocence, with a few questions as if they were asked from a childs perspective since children are considered the closest representation of innocence in life. However, in the second book, Songs of Experience, Blakes continues to write his poems about thought-provoking concepts except the concepts happen to be a little bit more complex and relevant to experience and time than Songs of Innocence. In the poem, The Lamb, from Songs of Innocence, William Blake asks the little lamb, Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost†¦show more content†¦my soul is white (1351). This statement sets up the main idea of the poem and addresses the idea that blacks are inferior to whites. The author believes himself to be inferior to the little English Boy and tells the English boy that he will shade him from the head till he can bear / To lean in joy upon our fathers knee. / And then Ill stand and stroke his silver hair, / And be like him, and he will then love me. After reading the poem, the reader is able to see the situation of superiority and inferiority that is at hand during that time and still exists even today. Blake supports this social problem in that the little black boy wants so very badly to be just like the English boy or, in other words, he wants to be white and wants the English boy to love him. Even though there isnt a direct question in the poem, the veiled question of the poem is obvious...what is so significant about this racial inequality that existed in the 18th century and continues to exist today? The answer is left for the reader to think about with no definite answer is provided. In the poem, The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Innocence, William Blake continues to address this racial difference and sets up the poem where one of the sweeping slaves named Tom Dacre has a dream about being locked up in black coffins when an Angel appears to them and sets them free to play and rejoice.Show MoreRelatedComparing the Quest in M. Butterfly and American Beauty1671 Words   |  7 Pageslonging for his love Butterfly to return to him. John Deeney describes it as him, clinging to his idea of a Perfect Woman to the end by costuming himself into the victimized Butterfly though his final suicide. Although Gallimard’s infatuation with Song sometimes makes him cut a rather ridiculous figure, his dead seriousness at the end evokes a certain amount of pathos and even admiration as he dies for his ultimate ideal of perfect womanhood. 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