Examples Of Biblical Allusions In The Poem To Tirzah

In the Songs of Innocence there are all types of Biblical allusions in his poems. In his poem To Tirzah there are biblical allusions to Jesus dying on the cross and how he was raised on earth. Tirzah was a royal city of the Canaanites that was considered to be a rebellious city. In this poem he is conveying the relationship between mortal body that will eventually die on earth, and the spiritual body, that is more like sleep than actual death. From the bible Jesus came down from heaven and died for our sins. Death is no longer a permanent death but, like Jesus rising on the third day, the soul would actually rise into heaven. In a Christian point of view, God sent down Jesus from heaven to give us a second chance by saving people from sin.

In the first stanza states that if the bad didn 't exist then neither would the good. The virtues mercy, pity, love, and peace are all human based traits. Cruelty plays a role in almost like a hidden virtue in the church were once it gets a hold of you it 's almost impossible to let go. The tree itself is referring to is the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. It says, “And it bears the fruit of Deceit” it is actuallyctually talking about where they ate the fruit. “Ruddy and sweet to eat” was how the fruit tasted when Eve ate it and it was bound to kill them. When is says, “And the raven his nest has made, in its thickest shade.” is where he watched them consume the fruit and unleash death upon the world. The last stanza brings, together with gods fighting to find this Tree of Knowledge but they don’t realize that the search was pointless because they already had it embedded in their head to hold in fear, so that they will keep the form of

It starts out with a child being sold by his father after the mother died to be a chimney sweeper. Blake goes on to describe the horrors conditions, "So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep", as a way to show that a child cleans the chimneys and at night sleeps in the soot. Blake discusses a boy named Tom crying because he got his head shaved. They did this was because soot got in their hair and built up which caused problems for the children when working. The children never lasted long in chimney sweeping due to the soot getting into their lungs or even betting trapped inside. He tells about how many children died and what they did with them by saying, "That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned or Jack . Were all of them lock 'd up in coffins black". He continues on by saying the child saw an angel who unlocked all of the children 's coffins and set them free to heaven like Jesus rose up on the third day. They left all their mortal possessions behind since they no longer needed them and went up in the sky to heaven. In the bible God sent down angels to deliver messages like the one did in this poem. The angel tells Tom that if he 's a good boy, God will be his father and he will never want joy again. Uplifted by this Tom was happy and continued to do his job without fearing of getting