In this essay I will try to look at one of his poems, The Lamb which a consider to be of great significance from different aspects: firstly I will try to place it in the context of innocence based on the collection of songs, then try to explore the religious hints in the poem and finally, since the poems in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience come in pairs, I cannot avoid bringing the two poems in comparison. ... The child speaks to the lamb as to his companion, sister or brother. ... Based on Jesus" words, "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you ...

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Beyond the words of the poem, an on-going interaction between man and nature can be found. In "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", this interaction results in man, or the knight in this case, losing out in a spiritual conflict to nature, or the faery's child, "And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill's side". ... In this poem, nature is dominant and therefore powerful, as everything in the poem can be related back to nature as "the sedge has wither"d from the lake- and even the imagery used has a strong link with nature, "she found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and mann...

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{Doren, 58} Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother, George, was wounded and in a hospital in Washington, D.C. He found George nearly recovered but saw other soldiers badly in need of care. ...

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