Holy Thursday: Songs of Innocence = Poverty & Inequality
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- Holy Thursday: Songs of Experience = Poverty & Inequality
- Language
- Synecdoche
- 'Cold and usurous hand'
- Highlights that benefactors donate their usury which is ironic as it is frowned upon in the old testament
- 'Cold and usurous hand'
- Rhetorical questions
- Anaphora = repetition = despair for the children
- "rich and fruitful land"
- Juxtaposition with the poverty of children
- "Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands". Religious reference, raising their hands like Jesus did when he ascended
- "Mighty wind" = power of the masses
- Synecdoche
- Structure
- X4 Quatrains
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- Cyclical structure = cycle of deprivation
- Interpretations
- Social commentary
- Blake = visionary
- Blake's experience is the loss of childhood joy, replaced by fear and inhibition and corruption of the state and the church.
- Multitudes = overpopulation/sprawl, or angelic choirs? Lambs = innocence? Christ? Sacrificial?
- Religious
- Noah's Ark
- Biblical imagery
- Noah's Ark
- Social commentary
- Thematic links
- Blake lived in Soho and witnessed the plight of children first-hand
- Holy Thursday: Songs of Innocence. This is the 'experienced' version
- The experience is the reality of the world, rather than a perfection that is prelapsarian (the biblical time before Adam and Eve lost their innocence in the Garden of Eden).
- "The Experience poems satirise the state of the innocence."
- Northrop Frye = "The 'Experience' poems satirise the state of innocence"
- Beadles presented as kind old men - actually in charge of disciplining the children.
- Language
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