Blake Essays

‘The Lamb’ from Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’ represents the idea of purity that is woven throughout the ‘Innocence’ collection. His poem ‘The Tyger’ is in the compilation of ‘Experience’ poems which offer a darker perspective on life after learning. These two poems have many similarities and contrasting …

A major target of Blake’s in the conquest to correct the unnatural state of society was that of religion and the Church. Blake was an unconventional Christian. Although clearly religious, as seen in poems such as ‘The Lamb’ and ‘Night’, he abhorred the concept of organised religion and believed it …

INTRODUCTION Piping down the valleys wild,    Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child,    And he laughing said to me: ‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’    So I piped with merry cheer. ‘Piper, pipe that song again.’    So I piped: he wept …

This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme, a contrast to most of Blake’s other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of “thee” at the end of the fourth and sixth lines, drawing the …

London I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear …

Both of William Blake’s poems reflects on the heart wrenching and unfortunate things young boys in the late 1700s were forced to do as chimney sweepers, yet their point of views and tones are quite different. Whereas in the first poem, Blake uses an innocent and undeserving young boy as …

William Blake wrote The Chimney Sweeper, in 1789. This poem tells the story of a young chimneysweeper and his dream. The analysis will cover the poem’s figurative language and it’s meanings and goals. Lines 1-4 The first line does not include any poetic element. It hit with the reality and …

William Blake, one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism, wrote the “Songs of Innocence and Experience” in the 1790s. The poems juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives on …

William Blake’sThe Little Black Boy revolves around the theme of slavery and the ideal slave’s mentality. Blake wrote about a black African-American and his experience with slavery. Blake probably expressed his own feelings towards the whites’ racism and suppression acts towards African-Americans through the black boy, which is the speaker …

The poet William Blake wrote “The Clod and the Pebble”. In this poem Blake expresses his ideas of what love should be and how the concept of love is perverted. The two speakers in this poem is a clod of clay and a pebble from a brook. Blake portrays this …