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The Essence of Childhood in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
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May 28, 2007 |
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But the bawls continued, until I, in a moment of desperation, grabbed the first book I saw strewn across my neglected homework. It was a volume of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience--I was supposed to write an essay comparing "The Lamb" and "The Tyge"--ran assignment familiar to many budding young English scholars. Ironically, I began with "Infant Joy," and more surprisingly, after a few more poems, the tears stopped and she was lulled to sleep, looking, in those moments, like a perfect angel. Blake's verses had transcended time to save my sanity.
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