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Holy Thursday By Blake annotations
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‘HOLY THURSDAY’ INNOCENCEBariatric opening palm before they
Plies weren't clean
1- -
traditional song p@vuenerabiuit.y and purity owe
cleaned up to
to labour or poverty
‘Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, present a
-
Public facade .
echo
of moans arch = Old testament ( saving children spiritually) • colours are
symbolic of optimism
1- pop unity
-
forced to
conform Tobey 1-
The children walking ☐
two and two in red and blue and green,
→ benevolence purity
appointed BY
1- Officials
wisdom
1-Page fairy
= •
pro magical
:
-
benevolent guardians the parish to keep order
+ punish minor offenses .
godmothers
µ pure
Grey headed
☐ beadles walked before withc↓larJˢ
wands as white as snow;
hpnneaaea to
procession Ltr symbols
=
guiding of authority used to
punish
Till into the high dome of Paul’s they like Thames waters flow
WR symbol ↳rsimile=
of Church authority Childrens movements t numbers
'
also recalls lcnartera Thames
implying control
opexaaimation = verb : importance Of unis
1- AMAZMENE
hypersonic to
convey Perception how the •
metaphor = innocence + to
ppu children appear
-
pp number
of children 1- nature
+ there reality are very aiggerene
Oh what a multitude they seemed, these flowers of London town
/
1- vitality angelic
•
for some element of autonomy
Seated in companies they sit, with radiance all their own.
energy
pp onomatopoeic
term
-
/ Voiceless innocence
.
-
•
collective noise -
power in people Wordless sound 1- , pure ,
sacrifice
The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs: as Christ was lamb of t
goa
-
sacrigied for our sins so are the
children
sacrificial victims - the
collator at
ppraiminutive adjective damage of an
uncaring
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
society .
WB emphasises how
↳ gesture of supplication +
live in
many poverty worship
OR desperation to escape poverty
simile
+
-
minds sent to the apostles and the religious indoctrination .
Whirlwind of destruction , stands in the
TRIMMediatek TM holy spirit suggesting the children
for
are µ celebration + worship
uniquely blessed
Now like a mighty wind they raise to Heaven the voice of song,
.
HR Closer to God
uplifting
-
TR Oxymoronic
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of Heaven among.
top simile =
religious connections = voice gains strength
choir of angels sarcastic title poet questions why people suffer
- -
and are
poor if
1-
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor,
there are wise
guardians .
hop preposition= ironic
the old men are beneath children are
as they
metaphorically less moral T
father from god
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
↳ imperative =
to reader
directadaress-kbpbuou.cat illus tion
form hebrews 13.2
didactic this is instructs us to
sympathise
=
, "
•
do not
the purpose
of the sext .
Mimi blameless children forget to entertain strangers gor
by so doing some people have entertained
an
angel without
knowing it ' -
Sarcastic the only reason church
=
for
benevolence is selfish desire to secure
their own salvation .
Critical
of the
guardians blatant
hypocris .
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