Themes of Protest in SOI and SOE
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- Elements of Political and Social Protest in SOI and SOE
- Treatment of Children
- "The Chimney Sweeper" (SOI) - Blake denounces the rich's power over the poor, and their oppression of the poor children.
- "The Schoolboy" (SOI) - Blake believed schools restricted the freedom and creativity of children.
- "Holy Thursday" (SOE) - Blake questions a selfish and materialistic society that allows poor children to starve.
- Idealised Society / Community
- "A Dream" (SOI) - The mother ant represents an idealised society, where help is always given when needed.
- "On Another's Sorrow" (SOI) - Presents Blake's idea of empathy for those cruelly abandoned by the class system.
- "The Echoing Green" (SOI) - Blake's ideals for a community in harmony, where the children are unrestricted by the adults and Experience.
- Idealised Society / Community
- Blake's view of children / childhood
- "Introduction" (SOI) - Blake represents the child, and nature, as innocent and naive.
- "The Lamb" (SOI) - Blake emphasises the innocence of the child through his comparison to the lamb.
- "Infant Joy" (SOI) - Blake presents innocence in the form of a baby, who he believed carried no original sin.
- Negative views of Religion and the Church
- "Holy Thursday" (SOI) - Reprimands the rich for completing charitable acts for the sake of their appearance, instead of for their own humanitarianism.
- "The Divine Image" (SOI) -Blake believed that God had a human image, something that was controversial then.
- "Earth's Answer" (SOE) - Creative fulfilment is impossible under the restrictions of a material world governed by the harsh laws of a jealous God.
- "The Garden of Love" (SOE) - Organised religion restricts joy and free love.
- "The Little Vagabond" (SOE) - Blake implies through an innocent narrator that the Church needs to be reformed.
- Negative views of Religion and the Church
- "Nurse's Song" (SOI) - Positive view of adults who don't restrict the children - controversial at the time.
- "The Fly" (SOE) - Reveals the inhibiting nature of education in the WOE.
- Black Rights
- "The Little Black Boy" (SOI) - Questions conventional views and shows Blake's belief in the Abolition of Slavery.
- Blake's view of Love (Free Love)
- "The Clod and the Pebble" (SOE) - Love is both self-sacrificing and selfish: Blake believed you needed a balance of innocence and experience.
- "The Angel" (SOE) - Those who follow the Church's rules on suppressing passions deprive themselves of free love.
- Negative views of Religion and the Church
- "Holy Thursday" (SOI) - Reprimands the rich for completing charitable acts for the sake of their appearance, instead of for their own humanitarianism.
- "The Divine Image" (SOI) -Blake believed that God had a human image, something that was controversial then.
- "Earth's Answer" (SOE) - Creative fulfilment is impossible under the restrictions of a material world governed by the harsh laws of a jealous God.
- "The Garden of Love" (SOE) - Organised religion restricts joy and free love.
- "The Little Vagabond" (SOE) - Blake implies through an innocent narrator that the Church needs to be reformed.
- Idealised Society / Community
- "A Dream" (SOI) - The mother ant represents an idealised society, where help is always given when needed.
- "On Another's Sorrow" (SOI) - Presents Blake's idea of empathy for those cruelly abandoned by the class system.
- "The Echoing Green" (SOI) - Blake's ideals for a community in harmony, where the children are unrestricted by the adults and Experience.
- Treatment of Children
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