Songs Of Innocence Flashcards
(10 cards)
The ecchoing green
“ in our youth time we seen on the echoing green”
-veiled criticism complexity of Blake some children have this lower class don’t
The ecchoing green
“ and sport no more seen, on the echoing green”
-refrain is altered shift
-Critique on society world isn’t utopian
-Ends on ominous tone structurally
Holy Thursday
“ grey headed be walked before with ones as white as snow”
-children being led by adult adults authority figures
-Why did metaphor of societal control
-Grey dull, bleak adult world corruption
Holy Thursday
“In red and blue and green”
-contrast greyness of adult
-Colours of God
Holy Thursday
“Wands”
-symbol of order children’s innocence playing with magic
-Symbol of order and control masquerades as symbol of childhood play
Holy Thursday
“ beneath them said the aged man wise Guardian of the poor”
-subservient to God
-Wisdom and adult adulthood and parental care
Holy Thursday
“ then cherish pity less you drive an angel from your door”
-abstract emotions as a form of societal control
-Pity drives conformity
-Threat to be disconnected from God
-Biblical rhetoric part of a wider ideology control
The chimney sweeper
“ the soot cannot spoil your white hair”
-loss of innocence taken from them
-Metaphor of suffering destroyed childhood
The chimney sweeper
“ by came an angel who had a bright key”
-imagery of peace using salvation to manipulate children to work
-Oxymoronic tone of society
-subversive image of saved
The chimney sweeper
“ the morning was cold. Tom was happy and warm.”
-Disingenuous
-blake suggest vision provide hope and happiness
-Children find happiness in death
