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  • on The Lamb by William Blake, on March 14, 2006
    At first look, someone may believe Blake is saying just how amazing the works and the products of God are, and this a simple praising poem. But I don't believe Blake was one to write something so simple. I think it's interesting to consider the line
    "I a child and thou a lamb"
    and then think what Blake intends to imply about the narrator be calling him a child. Some might like to say the narrator only calls himself a child because we are all "children of god" but I believe that here the word comes with all it's literal and figurative meaning. Blake might very well be implying this poem with all its childlike praising, is from the perspective of an innocent and ignorant child(meaning this is a childish thing to believe). After all ignorance and innocence are both connotations of the word child. It's common for people to look at this poem and the Tyger as contrasting poems that send contrasting messages. But it seems likely to me that both poems send a similar message questioning creationism and christianity. Like Kjelson said I believe when closly read poems from Songs of Innocence can be viewed as harsh critiques of christianity.

  • on Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson, on June 22, 2005
    This is my favorite Emerson poem, an epic masterpiece. I can imagine him reading this at his sons funeral whose tragic death inspired this poem. The last stanza is my favorite.

  • on He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats, on June 22, 2005
    I first heard this poem recited in a movie called "Equilibrium" and I fell in love with it. Yes I agree, a poem of betrayel...

  • on A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carroll, on June 21, 2005
    This poem is brillant, nearly brought me to tears first time I read it. I am a fan of Alice in Wonderland and this poem I feel really captures the legacy of Lewis Carroll in the literary world. I see myself looking through Carolls eyes, perhaps at my little sister in ten years, reminicing over lost innocence. And I see a younger self through Carroll's eyes as well, listening to those same stories and dreaming all the while.
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