THE LITTLE BOY LOSTWILLIAM BLAKE

WILLIAM BLAKE

• WILLIAM BLAKE WAS BORN IN LONDON IN 1757. HE WAS A FAMOUS POET, AND CREATED SOME ART PIECES.

• HE SAYS HE WAS INFLUENCED BY VISIONS, AND BY ANGELS AND GOD.

• HE HAD MANY WORKS, INCLUDING SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, AND SONGS OF INNOCENCE. THIS IS WHERE MOST OF HIS POEMS ARE FOUND.

WILLIAM BLAKE’S COLLECTIONS

• SONGS OF INNOCENCE (1789)• A LITTLE BOY LOST

• THE LITTLE BOY FOUND

• SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (1794)

A LITTLE BOY LOST THE LITTLE BOY FOUND

MEANING OF THE LITTLE BOY FOUND

• ONE SYMBOL IS THE LIGHT THAT IS WONDERING, THAT ALWAYS IS USUALLY USED AS A SYMBOL FOR GOD.

• ANTOHER SYMBOL IS THE COLOR WHITE, WHICH IS ALMOST ALWAYS USED FOR PURITY AND INNOCENCE.

• THE LITTLE BOY LOST IN THE LONELY FEN,LED BY THE WAND’RING LIGHT,BEGAN TO CRY, BUT GOD EVER NIGH,APPEARD LIKE HIS FATHER IN WHITE.

HE KISSED THE CHILD & BY THE HAND LEDAND TO HIS MOTHER BROUGHT,WHO IN SORROW PALE, THRO’ THE LONELY DALEHER LITTLE BOY WEEPING SOUGHT.

MEANING OF A LITTLE BOY LOST

• ONE SYMBOL IS THE WAY HE COMPARES HIS LOVE FOR HIS FATHER AND BROTHER TO THE WAY A LITTLE BIRD PICKS UP CRUMBS AROUND THE DOOR.

• ALSO THE FIRE SYMBOLIZES DEATH AND WRONG DOING IN THE CHURCH, ESPECIALLY WHEN BEING BURNED. THAT USUALLY MEANS YOU DO SOMETHING PRETTY BAD.

• NOUGHT LOVES ANOTHER AS ITSELF,NOR VENERATES ANOTHER SO,NOR IS IT POSSIBLE TO THOUGHTA GREATER THAN ITSELF TO KNOW.

'AND, FATHER, HOW CAN I LOVE YOU OR ANY OF MY BROTHERS MORE? I LOVE YOU LIKE THE LITTLE BIRDTHAT PICKS UP CRUMBS AROUND THE DOOR.'

THE PRIEST SAT BY AND HEARD THE CHILD; IN TREMBLING ZEAL HE SEIZED HIS HAIR,HE LED HIM BY HIS LITTLE COAT,AND ALL ADMIRED THE PRIESTLY CARE. 

AND STANDING ON THE ALTAR HIGH,'LO, WHAT A FIEND IS HERE! SAID HE:'ONE WHO SETS REASON UP FOR JUDGEOF OUR MOST HOLY MYSTERY.'

THE WEEPING CHILD COULD NOT BE HEARD,THE WEEPING PARENTS WEPT IN VAIN:THEY STRIPPED HIM TO HIS LITTLE SHIRT,AND BOUND HIM IN AN IRON CHAIN,

AND BURNED HIM IN A HOLY PLACEWHERE MANY HAD BEEN BURNED BEFORE; THE WEEPING PARENTS WEPT IN VAIN.ARE SUCH THING DONE ON ALBION'S SHORE?

WORK CITED

• HTTP://POETRY.ABOUT.COM/LIBRARY/WEEKLY/BLBLAKEMOTHER.HTM

• HTTP://WWW.POETS.ORG/POET.PHP/PRMPID/116

• HTTP://WWW.POEMHUNTER.COM/POEM/A-LITTLE-BOY-LOST/