line 24 the boy's words are an expression of a childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ig
line 24 the boy's words are an expression of a childlike trust that the poet, with more experience of the world, knows to be unfounded: the poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ig
Songs of Experience by William Blake
Introduction
-Songs of Innocence and of Experience
The Frontispiece plates of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience denote the different characteristics of two poetic works. The frontispiece plate of Songs of Innocence shows the Piper, with a pipe in his hand, enjoying free dialogue with a child passing over his head. On the other hand, the front
Emily Dickinson?
-Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
(1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts.)
-From 1840, Dickinson spent 7yrs at Amherst Academy.
‘very bright’ and ‘excellent student’.
-Attended the South Hadley Female Seminary, but after only one year at the seminary, returned in 1848 to Amherst where she began her life of seclusion.
-Around 1850 she began writing poetry.
First poems
John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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