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livedoor.entpoetsinspiredbymvses.ggThis sets whole sequence + establishes
tone
for
poet / speaker as a driven
ly inspired visionary
Introduction Songs of Innocence
musical
%;ⁿᵗaᵗe
verb -
and
• celebration
symbolic
+ the pastoral of phallus
1-
-• sexual
p vagina
1-
Parreuelism -
Piping down the valleys wild joy •
as -
ideal world
[
and
harmony
musically
←
Piping songs of pleasant glee
ideal
freedom
On a cloud I saw a child.
-
divine
allegory of
innocence
qualities _
- p childhood and
Blakes vision
And he laughing said to me:
Upsets up expectations
↓ gor
rest of poem
non-finite verb -
positivity
- aural quality
Biblical
‘Pipe a song about a Lamb’;
innocence
imperative symbolic of
-
-
← •
child has a allusions → Christ who is tinted
voice and power
to sacrifice and
forgiveness
So I piped with merry chear,
• subverts idea of patriarchal authority
and
• is heard
as a Childs voice is
‘Piper pipe that song again’—
value a
directspeec#
immediacy
blame voice
giving simple repitions lexis nursery rhyme
-
to innocence
So I piped, he wept to hear. µ quality innocence and enhancing
-
harmony s impressions accentuated
by the lyrical alliteration
emotional reaction
• positive
[
associated
‘Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe repeated lexis -
child is in
with joy - idealism
charge
-
helping ←
the
song
develop
Sing thy songs of happy chear’,
there are limitations
implies
So I sung the same again •
-
to the state of innocence
While he wept with joy to hear
demanding and
1- direct • written
oral
-
+
development
distribution + accessibility
B wieder
‘Piper sit thee down and write of
the maternal
.
printing
MOMS
press
and
✓
bn modal verb -
choice
Blake's own printing
In a book that all may read’— voice has
ᵗ Man inclusively
-
for
reaching and benevolent powers
So he vanish'd from my sight.
↳ supernatural / angelic being
And I pluck'd a hollow reed.
☆
I
dynamic verb -
anaphoric repitition -
urgency
-
speakers desire to write down what
urgency
has
inspired him
And I made a rural pen, a importance of
is
nature
inspiring the
poet
And I stain'd the water clear,
µ
ambiguous verb
perhaps suggests that in hunting about nature it
metaphorically
And I wrote my happy songs takes away some of its purity
Every child may joy to hear Bapu introduces the collection
MN
M
highlights their importance ,
symbolic of
innocence and linked to the divine final word accentuates the importance of aural effect
and
determiner reflects
the
poems being shared .
his determination his
for poetry
to be accessed by all
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