How Did William Blake Use The Connotation In The Industrial Revolution

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Jaqueline Meza Feb. 17, 2016 3rd The words and poetic devices a poem writer uses are crucial because all they choose have significance they are not just words in a paper. Archetypes and the connotation of a poem are extremely of importance because based on that the reader can determine what message the author is trying to convey. First of all, in the poem of 1789 it is based on the songs of experience; moreover, it signifies that the connotation executed throughout the whole poem is negative. On the other hand, the poem of 1794 has a positive connotation because of the usage of words such as: happy, smiled, dance, and sing. As the reader analyzes the poem more deeply the 1789 version talks about who currently working;meanwhile, the 1794 version is of a deceased child who is observing and notices his parents had forced him to work but it was for their own good; therefore, Blake writes “ They have done me no injury”. Secondly, the two poems revolve around the experience of a little boy, as William Blake calls them lambs, who are in the time period of the Industrial Revolution and as a consequence the children are forced to work since they are …show more content…

In addition, Blake almost uses satire but is not quite there; therefore his poems are a social commentary talking about the child labor going on at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Once again Blake uses imagery to represent signs of god and religion, in the 1789 version he uses the word Angel to represent how children have reached the heavens and based on their experience they will reach their innocence. Furthermore, in the 1794 version he directly uses the words God and his Priest and King. In conclusion, both poems talk about the same topic and themes but Blake has a different approach to how he writes the two. Blake differentiates the two by his usage on connotation and denotation to both

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