Then comes ‘The Cradle Song’ which is a very hearty poem and it tells of the mother’s love for her children. Sometimes the happiness will end people will be changed. He gives importance to the ‘Prelapsarian times’. Is it generally considered as a song that is being sung many times? This is also poem happiness, fancy work, charming soul. “Laughing Song” is another awesome poem by the hands of Blake. This poem is very significant because here the poet is producing the innocence of a child and asks God to let him aware. God is a common personality that stays in Blake’s poems. “The Little Boy Found” is another poem that can be continued with the previous poem. Though the poet has written in a very gentle way. The line is so deep and filled with pathos. “The mire was deep, & the child did weep” This poem is a fragment of another poem called ‘The Little Boy Found’.

‘The Little Boy Lost’ is also that type of poem. William Blake had written many poems on child abuse. This line produces a hard reality even other poets also write on that topic. Even some of them get died because they fall into the chimney and others died because of lung disease.Īnd my father sold me while yet my tongue,” Here also the poet has opine of child labor where children are being destructed.Īt five/six old they are washing chimney and working hard to earn money.

“Chimney Sweeper” is one of the best poems in Blake’s collection of poems. Songs of Innocence Songs of Innocence the Chimney Sweeper As it is a poem of Innocence, the poet only deals with a simple thought. Here, the poet explains happy, happy moments like “Leaves so green”, “happy blossom”. ‘The Blossom’ is a fantastic poem that was published along with another poem in 1789. In this poem, Blake raises a question to God. ‘The Little Black Boy’ is a poem that talks about a boy who becomes a victim of slavery.Īt that contemporary time, slavery was legal and the world also goes with ‘racism’. This poem is associated with the poem ‘The Tyger’. He is asking about its identity to its creator that makes it so soft and innocent. In this poem, he raises a question toward God and also himself answers. Here, the poet talks about the little lamb that has a soft voice and a woolen body. ‘The lamb’ was published in the first collection of poems.

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