welcome to my blog again! it has a new name this time:
Songs of Innocence and Experience.
It is a collection of poems made by William Blake, whom we are going to examine in English 4 this quarter... Well, most of his poems - okay, the ones that i was required to read because i had to report on them - dealt with contrasts in nature, and social issues. The Little Black Boy dealt with racial discrimination; the Chimney Sweeper dealt with child labor; the Tyger dealt with the presence of evil despite the presence of God. It's amazing how he manages to express an essay's worth of thoughts in ideas in a few short stanzas.
In fact, I'm sure that is why the title of his compilation is also oxymoronic in a sense. Innocence is inherent in us. It is our experiences of the pains and sufferings in this world that make us lose this innocence, but we never truly lost it... I for one am sure that kindness, if not innocence, is inherent in an individual, even if the environment exerts pressure on oneself...
So, there... until next time... good night...:D