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One way to read Blake’s collection, which features poems of happiness in the first half and counterpart poems of misery in the second, is that life moves us from childhood joy to adult suffering. Children play on the green, while adults encounter cruelty, illness, and death.
By analogy, childhood innocence is the time of Eden, adult experience is life after the Fall.
On another reading, the two halves of the collection address different ways of viewing children and childhood, and that includes ho ...more
By analogy, childhood innocence is the time of Eden, adult experience is life after the Fall.
On another reading, the two halves of the collection address different ways of viewing children and childhood, and that includes ho ...more
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Dec 15, 2013
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