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English (Songs of Innocence- Introduction ('valleys wild'and '…
English
Songs of Innocence- Introduction
'Piping' = anafora repetition
'valleys wild'and 'pleasant glee' = Old 14 couplets
linked to ancient tradition, draidic
pantheist (nature
Deviation
'child'= innocence, inspiration (god, nature)
'And he laughing said to me'
deviation
'piping' = piper, bardic voice
'lamb' = Jesus (Albion) innocence, rebirth, nature, childhood
'merry cheer'= semantics grouping of innocent joy
' So i piped ; he wept to hear' = euphoria, Raphur = natural reaction to something pure
'thy'= high language. Bible, making lexical choices to raise to a spiritual level
'i plucked a hollow reed' = excitement of creation, writing instrument
'rural'= countryside, nature
'stained the water clear' = abstract paradigm, loss of innocence
'stained' = something negative to come, foreshadowing/ fortelling
Songs of Experience- The Sick Rose
pragmatic interpretation
'rose'= links to innocence
'invisible worm'= arranged education, Newtonian science
'Howling storm' = change and uncertainty
attempted to fit life into clinical theorem
'crimson joy' = relates to rose
'dark secret love' = links to invisible worm and any form of narrowing education
imagination = childhood innocence/ inspiration and muse
Newtonian science
Age of Enlightenment
Blake's reactionary response to scientific theory