Do Songs of Innocence and Experience need to be read together? Songs of Innocence and Experience are a series of poems on how we see the world at different stages of our lives. ... In Blake's time, poor parents often sold their children as 'climbing boys' to a master sweep at around the age of five. ... Some suffocated inside the chimneys they were trying to clean; others grew up stunted and deformed, dying at a young age from cancer or lung diseases. ... Innocence's version depicts the happy co-existence of adult and children in an idyllic, pastoral setting. ...

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Alongside the character's loss of innocence, other supporting themes are present, such as drug abuse, the passage of time, and violence. ... It can be said that these two ideas are used to juxtapose each other to illustrate loss of innocence. ... The theme of the passage of time is elementary to a 'coming of age' story. The repetitive usage of "when" and the use of past tense in first stanza, as well as the change in the tense to present in the third and fourth stanzas suggest that the author was reminiscing about a summer before he lost his innocence. ... " The...

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The contemplative and solemn tone exhibits the serious nature of the poem as the speaker reflects on life, aging and mortality through Harwood's use of natural imagery. ... Harwood's utilisation of the word "rattl[e]" not only evokes the sound of the shells but also reiterates the connotations of childhood toys and innocence previously suggested by the simile "like a doll". ... Emphasis on the speaker's approach to middle-age is achieved through the utilisation of the word "autumn", which often symbolises maturity, middle age and the harvest of a ...

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They revolted against the artificial declamatory speeches and formal language of the neoclassical age. ... The main theme of "Ode on Intimations of Immortality" is searching for comfort or peace while realizing the loss of childhood innocence and lack of constraint. Wordsworth saw the purity and innocence in children and illustrated it in lines 63 through 67. ... Wordsworth also saw, however, how this innocence and purity was corrupted by civilization. ... Stanza VII continues illustrating this corruption and loss of innocence by describing some of the roles that the child will play throughout...

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In his best works, "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," Blake uses his poetic talent to address the political and relgious ideas of his age. The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, uses the symbolism of two different animals to explain how all things, good and evil, come from God. ...

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In the second part he questions his memories because of age, he is not sure the feeling is the same. ... He first describes the innocence of his childhood, then his disparity and vanity of old age and lastly, the purity of his sister. ... Wordsworth used it to express innocence and purity. ...

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In "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", Blake explored unconventional ideas of the nature of God and religion and tried to unite, or balance, his concept of innocence and experience as two different states of life and the human soul. Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ways. ... The reference to the stars or heavens may symbolise the rigid "laws" imposed on man and poet in the preceding age of reason and restriction, whilst their weeping shows the breakdown of these ba...

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'Wild Swans at Coole' provides a poignant reverie on the poet's own transient existence and his growing awareness of the passing of time, setting up a seemingly irreconcilable gap between the beauty and vigour of lost youth and the imperfections of aging. ... The nature and persona's recognition of mortality brings the poem to a sombre conclusion as the physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical gap between the mortal and the immortal In Among School Children Yeats begins with a similar duality of youth and age but moves to a more profoun...

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A couple of days ago I was cleaning out my now unused study - recently I have been finding other places to write, my bed, the bathroom, even in the bath, as the portability of the laptop proves very convenient - and I stumbled upon a book, well read, yet discarded in my 'old age'. ... Here the persona is middle aged and is confronting her father"'"s age and mortality '"'your marvellous journey"'"s done'"'. Her reluctance to accept the closeness of her father"'"s death is portrayed through her yearning ...

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Shortly after in the eighth stanza Time begins to also represent aging and death. In addition, the twelfth stanza Auden alludes to nursery rhyme, "Jack and Jill," to refer to a loss of innocence and offer an insinuation towards Heaven. ... For example, " The years shall run like rabbits, for in my arms I hold the Flower of the Ages ." ...

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Witt throws in words to suggest the trust, beliefs, love and innocence of a child; however, the mood is untouched because it is made so clear from the beginning. ... The poem is full of personifications of age and life: "Never fear, Age will catch you, slow down, ere it dispatch you." ... These lines show how eventually age will get the better of you and you will not be able to do the things you can when you are young. ...

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In April 1819, Byron met his last attachment Teresa Gamba Guiccioli who was married to a man three times her age. ... "A serious illness in February 1824, weakened Byron; in April he contracted a fever, treated by further bleeding, from which he died on April 19 at the age of thirty-six"(The Penguin Group, 4). ... The author seeks his own innocence through her beauty; this is the author's definition of ideal woman. ...

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"Dylan Thomas's poems are exuberant, often florid and occasionally obscure". a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"? Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate,...

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This poem is about the child praying to his mother, God and society to make the world a better place for him to live in without the current hazards. The child represents society and so when he says "I fear the human race", he is showing that he is afraid of his own kind and of himself, "me", the mo...

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At the age of nine she was unready for her father's death when she says, "You died before I had time- (line 7) which simply means that her father died before she had any reason to hate him or be angry with him, or realize that he wasn't perfect, good, or the honest person she made him out to be. ... She's talking about her father and saying how his innocence separated him from everyone else, including her husband. ... At twenty years of age she tried to commit suicide to be with her father, since she couldn't find anyone as trustworthy as him. ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

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Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate