Holy Thursday Innocence and Experience

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Holy Thursday Innocence and Experience

Similarities

  • Inncoence:
  • Line Lengths are longer. There is enjambment at the end of every sentence.
  • There is a sense of obeying. Kids going to Church for example.
  • Reference to Noah's Ark( presenting the Kids as Animals).
  • Blake uses an oxymoron of harmonious thunderings to show how people are happy to conform to religion even though they have been ordered to.
  • Blakes overall viewpoint is that many people are being judged and are inferior through lies being told. 'Beneath them sit the aged man.'

Differences

  • Experience:
  • Punctuation at the end of every line. doesn't flow as frequently.
  • Purposefully a cry of song as if they're in pain.
  • Blake uses declaratives challenging lies e.g 'It is a land of Poverty.'
  • Blake presents a more educated structure and shows empathy.

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