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A 4 page paper which analyzes elements of the poems called Holy Thursday, one from Songs of Innocence and one from Songs of Experience by William Blake. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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author notes, in relationship to his style, "Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century" (Liukkonen). His poems from Songs of Innocence and
Songs of Experience are seen as powerful and perhaps very reflective of the comment made by Liukkonen. The following paper analyzes two of his poems, both titled Holy Thursday, one
from Songs of Innocence and one from Songs of Experience. Thursdays and William Blake In looking at these two poems it is perhaps important to first understand something
of what Holy Thursday is all about. "The poem describes the English churchs celebration of Jesuss ascension which takes place on a Thursday 39 days after Easter. On this day,
children from the charity schools of London were marched to a service at St. Pauls Cathedral" (William Blake). Both of the poems speak of the same event or celebration but
clearly from different perspectives, one that is innocent and one that is experienced and more depressing. The reader will, first off, see
that the tone and the message of the two poems is very different. In the Songs of Innocence version there is a very angelic and innocent quality to what is
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands" (Blake [2] 7-8). It
is a poem that speaks, innocently, of the actions of the children who are singing in this church, presenting the reader with a pastoral look at life in the 18th
century and a pastoral look at religion and life itself in the face of innocent children. The other poem, from Experience, is far more vivid in its negative realities.
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