Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Posted on 11 October 2017 by William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake It appeared in two phases A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789 five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Best Read Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Am not IA fly like thee Or art not thouA man like meOut of all the poetry I have read, these four lines are amongst my favourite They have stuck with me over several years and seem to resonate within me I ve even considered having them tattooed onto my arm Why these lines You may ask.It s simple really they say so much Different readings can be made here, but the one I see most strongly is man talking to nature Man questions it he asks if he is the same as nature and if nature is tAm not IA fly like thee Or art not thouA man like meOut of all the poetry I hav...Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry I don t think I would dare give any collection of poems that contains the above lines anything less than five stars Luckily, although every poem isn t a winner for me cough Laughing Song cough , there are so many immortal poems in this collection that I don t feel the least bit guilty for giving the collection the full five stars I started collecting some of my favorite lines Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry I don t think I would dare give any collection o...Billy Blake Who Made Thee Poet Poet, burning bright, In the stanzas of the night What romantic coquetry, Could frame thy fearful poetry In what distant when or whys, roll d the epic of thine eyes On wet verse dare he aspire What poet s hand, robs Shelly s pyre And what meter, what art,Could twist the cadence of thy heart And when thy heart began to beat,What dread iambs what dread feet What the motif what the type, In what belly was thy gripe What the image what simile, Dare its Billy Blake Who Made Thee Poet Poet, burning brig... Folly is an endless maze Tangled roots perplex her ways How many have fallen there They stumble all night over bones of the dead And feel they know not what but care And wish to lead others, when they should be led. William Blake, The Voice of the Ancient Bard The smile of a child The face of a lamb The purity of maternal love Solidarity These are images chosen b...Well, one lousy review can t do Blake s poems any justice, not unless you re flush with time and the soul of a poet, yourself I can say, however, that the title kinda gives the whole gig away The first section is rife with allusions to Jesus and the second is full of wry and rather sarcastic religious revolutionary insights that I clearly appreciate muchthan the innocent ones Yes, love should be shown No, life should not be this dreary and repressed thing I particularly l Well, one lousy review can t do Blake s poems any justice, not unless you re flush with time and the soul of a poet, yourself I can say, however, that the title kinda gives the whole gig away The first section is rife with allusions to Jesus and the second is full of wry and rather sarcastic religious revolutionary insights that I clearly appreciate muchthan the innocent ones Yes, love should be shown No, lif...I adore William Blake s poetry and this illustrated collection is fantastic Unlike other British poets from centuries back like John Donne for example , his text is usually far easier to read even without a thesaurus and always delightful and full of imagery a MustMy first brush with Blake was through the impeccable poem Londonthan a decade back Since then, I d got to readpoems of his, all carefully chosen by the academicians, quickly putting him in my list of favorite poets Then before I reached my twenties, I read this little collection, and liked it immensely Songs of Innocence was what I was looking for, with its na ve outlook on life, the idyllic pictures of innocence I was unwilling to leave behind on my trek to youth I was enad My first brush with Blake was through the impeccable poem Londonthan a decade back Since then, I d got to readpoems of his, all carefully chosen by the academicians, quickly putting him in my list of favorite poets Then before I reached my twenties, I read this little collection, and liked it immensely Songs of Innocence was what I was looking for, with its na ve outlook on life, the idyllic pictures of innocence I was unwilling to leave behind on my trek to youth I was enad and still am by the introductory pieceview spoiler Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee On a cloud I saw a child And he laughing said to me Pipe a song about a Lamb So I piped with merry chear, Piper pipe that song again So I piped, he wept to hear Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe Sing thy songs of happy chear, So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear.Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read So he vanish d from my sight And I pluck d a hollow reed And I made a rural pen, And I stain...That moment when your favorite Tv Show makes you read Romantic poetry of the 18th century.A review, of sorts, may be found in Message 1.William Blake was an English painter and printmaker, as well as a poet and social critic In 1789 he printed a small number of his illustrated books of poetry which were colored with paint by hand The pages of Blake s lovely Songs of Innocence and Experience can be seen on the British Library s website Songs of Innocence depict the world in a pure, childlike innocence The Songs of Experience look at the world from the view of an adult who can see William Blake was an English painter and printmaker, as well as a poet and social critic In 1789 he printed a small number of his illustrated books of poetry which were colored with paint by hand The pages of Blake s lovely Songs of Innocence and Experience can be seen on the British Library s website Songs of Innocence depict the world in a pure,...

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11 October 2017

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