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Romantic Poems Key Themes - Coggle Diagram
Romantic Poems Key Themes
Nature
Death
Immortality and Mortality
Childhood / Children
'Holy Thursday - Songs of Innocence'
innocence of children
"innocent faces clean"
children's innocence being spiritually and physically
children are normally dirty
"multitudes of lambs"
metaphor
link to Christ
Blake's beginning poem to 'Songs of Innocence' being 'The Lamb'
Song-like rhythm representing innocence
innocence being associated with nature
"like Thames waters flow"
simile
movement of the children compared to natural features
water being free but controlled by society
children being carried by the current of innocence
"flowers of London town"
metaphor of innocence
exclamatory statement
emphasises beauty and fragility
Children being closest link to Heaven
"like a mighty wind"
simile
children direct with heaven
"harmonious thundering"
antithesis
erratic harmony
"hums of multitudes"
contrast to tenderness of children
swarms to heavenly
'Holy Thursday - Songs of Experience'
children being restrained by society
"Babes reduc'd"
antithesis
innocent children being brought down by society
"And so many children poor?"
rhetorical question
Memory
Melancholy
Religion / Religious experience
Place
Solitude
Outcasts
Corruption
Freedom and Confinement
Awe and wonder
Poet as a visionary
Loss
Power and Powerlessness
Relationships
Imagination / Surrealism
Supernatural
The 'Sublime'
Gothic