1. Study Questions on Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" (1)
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You only need to read: Introduction, The Ecchoing Green, The Lamb, The Little Black Boy, The Chimney Sweeper, The Divine Image, Holy Thursday, Nurse's song, Infant Joy, On Another Sorrow
1). The two poems titled "Holy Thursday" present very different perspectives on the marching of children from charity schools to St. Paul's Cathedral. How would you characterize the difference between the two perspectives?
2). In "London," what are "mind forg'd manacles" (l.8)? What do these manacles have to do with what the speaker is describing?
3). In "The Garden of Love," what has happened to the speaker's "joys and desires" (l.12)? Who has done this? Why?
2. Study Questions on Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" (2)
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You only need to read: Introduction, Earth's Answer, The Clod & the Pebble, Holy Thursday, The Chimney Sweeper, Nurse's song, The Sick Rose, The Fly, The Tiger, My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-flower, The Garden of Love, London, The Human Abstract, Infant Sorrow, A Poison Tree, To Tirzah, A Divine Image.
1). In "The Sick Rose," how has the worm succeeded in making the rose sick? What is this poem trying to suggest about sexual desire?
2). How does the "Introduction" to "Songs of Innocence" differ from the "Introduction" to "Songs of Experience"?
3). In "The Tiger," the speaker asks a series of questions about the tiger. Why does he ask these questions? Is he able to discover what he wants to know? Why or why not?