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Title: Notes on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
Description: WRITTEN BY A* ENGLISH LIT A-LEVEL STUDENT CLEAR AND CORRECT INCLUDES SCHOLAR OPINION AND THEORY These notes are a helpful guide to selected poems of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. Originally created for A-level study, but can be used at any level. Focuses on the theme of power and corruption within Blake's poetry. Also contains context surrounding the poems of Blake. Includes notes on 'The Sick Rose', 'The Lamb' and many more!
Description: WRITTEN BY A* ENGLISH LIT A-LEVEL STUDENT CLEAR AND CORRECT INCLUDES SCHOLAR OPINION AND THEORY These notes are a helpful guide to selected poems of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. Originally created for A-level study, but can be used at any level. Focuses on the theme of power and corruption within Blake's poetry. Also contains context surrounding the poems of Blake. Includes notes on 'The Sick Rose', 'The Lamb' and many more!
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Readings of early poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience
Power and Corruption
‘The Divine Image’
Ø Depicts a world in which the four traditionally Christian virtues (Mercy, Pity, Peace and love) are found in the
human’s heart and stand for the support of God
Ø Kathleen Raine believes that Blake’s poem is connected to Swedenborgian ideas of charity and simplicity: in
Swedenborgian’s work Divine Love and Wisdom where all abstract notions of divine compassion were
eschewed
...
Thompson notes the absence of any attitude of grovelling in this poem and calls attention to
Blake’s marginalia in which he quarrels with Swedenborg’s notion that there was no inherent divinity in man
except by influx arguing that the poem expresses Blake’s dissenting view
Robert Rix has commented on the absence of didacticism in Songs of Innocence in contrast to other religious
songs about children
The Children in other religious poems such as in the hymns of Isacc Watts, the Children are taught about the Ten
Commandments and being obedient to parents in a manner that Rix describes as ‘scare-‐mongering’
‘The Lamb’
Ø Watt’s stern God contrasts sharply with Blake’s the Lamb in which Christ becomes a little child
Ø Blake seems to agree with Swedenborg that children lack wisdom and that their innocence is brought
around by ignorance
‘A Dream’ (Innocence)
Ø G
Title: Notes on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
Description: WRITTEN BY A* ENGLISH LIT A-LEVEL STUDENT CLEAR AND CORRECT INCLUDES SCHOLAR OPINION AND THEORY These notes are a helpful guide to selected poems of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. Originally created for A-level study, but can be used at any level. Focuses on the theme of power and corruption within Blake's poetry. Also contains context surrounding the poems of Blake. Includes notes on 'The Sick Rose', 'The Lamb' and many more!
Description: WRITTEN BY A* ENGLISH LIT A-LEVEL STUDENT CLEAR AND CORRECT INCLUDES SCHOLAR OPINION AND THEORY These notes are a helpful guide to selected poems of William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience'. Originally created for A-level study, but can be used at any level. Focuses on the theme of power and corruption within Blake's poetry. Also contains context surrounding the poems of Blake. Includes notes on 'The Sick Rose', 'The Lamb' and many more!