Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, the Lamb and the tyger.

Hie thee home wailing wights,
Here comes William Blakes
Put y’all in woe,
The shepherd’s sweet loot
Thy tongues shall fill with praise
Beware not to fall in his fiery blaze

Nineteen poems about innocence, full of glee and joy, talks about the birds and their songs, and how spring surely comes, heavenly delights awaits for he who remains in God’s pious lights, which burn bright even in darkest night.
So, done with the rhymes it is not easy, even the tiger breaks its own poem symmetry with that of its own fearful one. Twenty-six poems about experience with this of the tiger being the most iconic of all of Blake´s poems, in it he asks this question about God in regards of the tiger:

Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Innocence and Experience, the soul’s mythic contrasting states, Infant Joy in one, Infant Sorrow in the other, The Lamb and The Tyger.



wight (waɪt ):
noun
(archaic) a human being

hie (haɪ ): 
verb
Word forms: hies, hieing, hying, hied
(archaic or poetic) to hurry; hasten; speed

woe (wəʊ )
noun
(literary) intense grief or misery
(often plural) affliction or misfortune

wailing (ˈweɪlɪŋ)
noun
prolonged high-pitched cries, as of grief or misery

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