Question

Explore Blake’s attitude to parents and parental figures with reference to the poems you have read.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Blake explores the "two contrary states of the human soul" in Songs of Innocence and of Experience by juxtaposing the experience of faith, wonder, and joy of the childlike perspective with the sense of horror, doubt, and suffering one gains through experience in a fallen world.

Answer 2

blake's attitude in his poem is that both parents and religion are for a way of life as parents were visiting the church to worship "God & his Priest & King" instead of taking care of their child.

Explanation:

• Blake believed that if a child's freedom became taken far away from them, they would no longer adapt absolutely to the grownup world.
• Blake is likewise known to apply a number of religious symbolism in his poetry to focus on the factors of both innocence and experience which could most effectively be harnessed if each is understood.
• The illuminated version of the poem backs up my point of Blake portraying the children as too organized and having no real happy childhood.
• as an example 'and their sun does in no way shine' Blake does not imply this actually, he is pronouncing that they may be by no means happy, so of their world, the sun does in no way shine