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Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Poetry Comparison the Poems of William Blake.Poems such as “Infant Joy” in Songs of Innocence and “Infant Sorrow” in Songs of Experience can be seen

Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses Poetry Comparison the Poems of William Blake.

Poems such as “Infant Joy” in Songs of Innocence and “Infant Sorrow” in Songs of Experience can be seen to share many characteristics despite their vastly different perceptions.

The two poems share many characteristics beginning with their subject matter. In each poem, Blake is expressing the impressions surrounding a very young infant – two days old in the first poem and presumably just born in the second. The language in each poem is kept deliberately simple and straightforward, eliminating the use of metaphors, similes and other such conventions in favor of the innocence and wonder of a newborn infant with few to no real world experiences upon which to base such language. Since each infant is given speech in the poem, this is an important consideration in the success of conveying both innocence and experience for the infants. While the infant in “Infant Joy” is repeating and reveling in his/her experience with an adult, the infant in “Infant Sorrow” is relating, on his/her own terms, the experiences it has had with adults at the time of its delivery. Metrically speaking, each poem takes on the sing-song meter of a song in the form of traditional hymns in the first and in the form of primarily iambic tetrameter in the second. However, in both poems, these generalized metrical descriptions do not fit the entire poem, nor is either poem reflective of a simple structure.

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