These poems have many different things in it. Both of them have mentions of a higher power. For example Songs of Innocence “ and by came an angel who had a bright key,” and Songs of Experience “ and are gone to praise God and his Priest and King.” Also both poems have a mostly negative tone, and have a child as the speaker whether it is third person or first person. Now let's talk about the tone of these poems. Even though most of these poems have a negative tone there are some positive tones, but we aren’t gonna talk about those. A dark tone from Songs of Innocence “ There’s a little Tom Darce, who cried when his head, that curled like a lamb’s back was shav’d.” Also from Songs of Experience “ A little black thing among the snow.” Even though
In conclusion, both poems are clear on the perspectives of innocence and the perspectives of experience and while experience lifts the veil of innocence it does not erase the raw belief that there is some place or someone who may just be better or may just be holy in a harsh world that is covered by manmade innocence.
These poems are both very similar from the start. In the first stanzas, they both express feelings of overcoming obstacles. “I thank whatever gods may be. For my unconquerable soul.”
Both poems inspire their reader to look at their own life. In addition, they treat the reader to a full serving of historic literature that not only entertains, but also teaches valuable lesson in the form of morals and principles.
The poetry by these two poets creates several different images, both overall, each with a different goal, have achieved their purposes. Though from slightly different times, they can both be recognized and appreciated as poets who did not fear the outside, and were willing to put themselves out there to create both truth and beauty.
In a dream the boy has an “Angel told Tom, if he’d be a good boy, he’d have God for his father, and never want joy” (Blake 19-20). This gives the boy the motivation that he needs to continue his life and so as he awoke, he “was happy and warm; / [and] if [he did his] duty [he] need not fear harm” (Blake 23-24). The young boy decides to suffer through his brutal everyday life so that one day he can go to heaven, where he will be happy. These two polar opposite approaches to dealing with the misfortune of the characters is what shapes both the theme and tone of the poems. Another similarity between these two poems is their extensive use of imagery.
Both authors use figurative language to help develop sensory details. In the poem It states, “And I sunned it with my smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.” As the author explains how the character is feeling, the reader can create a specific image in there head based on the details that is given throughout the poem. Specifically this piece of evidence shows the narrator growing more angry and having more rage. In the short story ” it states, “We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among bones.” From this piece of text evidence the reader can sense the cold dark emotion that is trying to be formed. Also this excerpt shows the conflict that is about to become and the revenge that is about to take place. By the story and the poem using sensory details, they both share many comparisons.
When considering the structure of the poems, they are similar in that they are both written loosely in iambic pentameter. Also, they both have a notable structured rhyme scheme.
The painting by Hubert Robert symbolizes a sense of grandeur as one looks at the pyramids that is drawn so huge in proportion that it vanishes midway. This could be the painter's way of expressing how powerful the entities were, representing grandeur in contrast to the little figures that were going towards it. Like the great king and his slaves.
The first differences in these poems are the speakers. A speaker is the person that is delivering the poem (Literary
In the poem “Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe, and the other poem by the same name by but a different author, H.D, the poets created two different tones with these poems, love and hate. The narrator was different than the speaker. So, in this writing I will tell the details about the differences between “Helen, thy beauty is to me” to “All Greece hates” poems.
In looking at both poems, they have two separate meanings from each other, but can be tied together by a the simple lesson of living. Song one is about being young and living freely as a child in the spring time. While the second song, by having the children come into the house and stop their foolish playing for they do not know what comes to them later in life, shows that the nurse is thinking of the aging process and wondering where her life has gone. The titles of the books in which the poems are in also give away this meaning to the poems. Nurse’s Song 1 from Songs of Innocence, innocence being youth and spring time, while Nurse’s Song 2 from Songs of Experience is linked to aging and death in winter.
Both poems where written in the Anglo-Saxton era in Old English and later translated into English. As well as both poems being written in the same time period, they are both elegiac poems, meaning they are poignant and mournful.
I am going to start by comparing the form of each poem. The souls of
When reading the two poems the reader can easily see that as a child the speaker was carefree, innocent, and oblivious to the outside world. As an adult the speaker realizes that the world is a different place. The speaker carefree innocence has now been corrupted. William Blake uses imagery, tone, and diction to validate his theme of man being born innocent and is corrupted through
The poet uses end rhyming to give the poem a sing-song quality which enforces that the speaker is a child. “Young, tongue, weep, sleep” are examples of end rhymes from lines 1-4. At the end of the poem the speaker switches the sound quality to assonance where he uses the non-rhyming words “behind, wind” (16-17), “dark, work” (21-22), “warm, harm” (23-24)” which are near enough in sound to hear the echo of the syllables but illustrate opposing meanings. “Work” is “dark”, being “warm” should not cause “harm”. “When my mother died I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry 'weep!’weep! 'weep! 'weep!” (1-2). Repeating the words “weep, weep, weep” sounds like a nursery rhyme, chorus of a song or maybe even the ringing of an alarm. We see the imagery of the young, crying child and also hear his grief. It is possible that the child is so young th...