Mrs. Shorey
Daniel Stevens
Mrs. Shorey
When William Blake wrote the innocence and experience versions of his poem Holy Thursday I think we was comparing the good and bad in the world. The first poem (innocence) was very cheerful and gave you something to be happy about, thousands of little boys and girls singing in London. It mentions a few things about heaven and angels. I think hew as comparing angels to the young children singing. I believe the poem was about children singing Christmas carols to "old guardians" (old people?) and then it says something like "lest you drive an angel from your door". I think that's saying he can you turn away children singing carols. The second poem (experience) was definitely a lot more dark and morbid. I didn't really understand this poem as mucha s the first one but I think it has to do with people singing carols also, but poor people singing them. I wasn't sure what babes meant but I know this is meant to be a darker version of the first poem.
The Chimney Sweeper was definitely a lot harder for me to interpret, the first version was okay but I couldn't really tell the difference. I think William Blake does like to focus his poems on not so happy things... I think the difference between the innocence and experience poem is that the innocence is from the view point of a child, and it sounds like the experience is from the view point of an adult who may be angry at God.
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