Monday, December 6, 2010
Infant Sorrow
what really grabbed my attention was the use of past tense in the first stanza "my mother groaned, my father wept". I think i was a story of the past how he was helpless to his fathers power. It was just his way of showing the oppression that people were under in that time. How that the church had power over all the people and there was nothing that they could do about it.
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The use of the infant also reflects the helplessness of the common man to fight back. An infant is also an innocent, someone who is guiltless and sinless. However, it is interesting that this poem appeared in Blake's collection Songs of Experience. This is because it is related to the cruelty and oppression of the world, not the wonder and beauty of it!
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