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Summary: Blake rules!
Review: When I was in high school, our teacher made us read 'The Tyger'. I loved it, the rhyme, the rhythm and the theme, it's just great! So when I was in Oxford last week and I saw it in a book store, I just had to buy it and on the long trip home, I read it, I'm not finished, but I've come a long way and I must say, all the poems are as beautiful. Blake is by far the best poet of the English speaking world.
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Summary: Beautiful imagery and meaning
Review: While most people remember Blake for "Tyger, tyger, burning bright" and "Little Lamb, who made thee?" his other poems are wonderful as well. The point of the poems doesn't seem to be that aging brings experience, but that experience changes innocence, to some degree. For instance, the Chimney Sweep is about children who work as chimney sweeps but dream of heaven. Many of the poems have symbolic and religious meanings. The imagery is beautiful and poignant. I recommend Blake's poems to people who appreciate meaning and depth in poetry.
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Summary: poems of perspective from childhood and adulthood
Review: William Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from that other work. Here in beautiful, almost child-like simplicity, he describes happy things like childhood and purity, as well as the darker realities of corruption and disillusionment. These poems are always spiritual and lyrical, full of heart and soul. The style is simple, yes, but the words and metaphors are profound and so is the wisdom, like in "The Human Abstract": Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor;
And mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we. David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
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Summary: poems of perspective from childhood and adulthood
Review: William Blake is known for some very mystical hard-to-understand poetry, but his "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" is very different from that other work. Here in beautiful, almost child-like simplicity, he describes happy things like childhood and purity, as well as the darker realities of corruption and disillusionment. These poems are always spiritual and lyrical, full of heart and soul. The style is simple, yes, but the words and metaphors are profound and so is the wisdom, like in "The Human Abstract": Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor;
And mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we. David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
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Summary: A book filled with childhood innocence & adult experiences.
Review: William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are both filled with amazing poetry. In Songs of Innocence, Blake reveals the true innocent and peaceful ways of a person's childhood. One of the most famous poems from this book is "The Lamb." This particular poem tells the story of a young boy asking an innocent lamb,"Who made thee?" "The Lamb" is religious and is very pleasant to read. Songs of Experience is a book filled with deceitful and cruel poems. The book's poems are based on the hardships of the "real" world. "The Tyger" is a famous poem from Songs of Experience. This is a contrary poem to "The Lamb." "The Tyger" also speaks of God the Creator of all things, but the poem has a dark theme and setting unlike "The Lamb." Songs of Innocence and Experience are two enjoyable works to read, and I would recommend them to anyone who enjoys poetry!
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