How has the speaker's perspective changed from the corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence? What allows the speaker to see things differently?ġ7. How so? Which poem do you consider a more effective contrary to "The Divine Image" in Songs of Innocence?ġ5. The Norton editors say that "The Human Abstract" is subtler than this poem. What was Blake saying about the relation between the human and the divine in that poem? How has it changed in "A Divine Image" in Songs of Experience?ġ4. Refer to "The Divine Image" in Songs of Innocence. How do you interpret the symbolism of the introduction - its references to "Earth," light and darkness, and the "starry floor / watry shore"?ġ3. What is the difference between the "piper" of the introduction to Songs of Innocence and the "Bard" in Songs of Experience?ġ2. How does the child's mother accommodate the boy's understanding and yet correct it? How does she view racial difference?ġ1. Where has the child learned that he is "bereaved of light"? How would you characterize his interpretation of his race?ġ0. Why are "mercy, pity, peace, and love" good attributes in this poem? (The poem's contrary is to be found in Songs of Experience, "The Human Abstract")ĩ. How does the speaker describe the movements of the children? Is this description ambivalent, and is the poem as a whole less innocent-sounding than some of the others? If so, why? What lines or phrases might lead us to that conclusion?Ĩ. How are the child-speaker, the lamb, and Christ "the Lamb" set in relation to one another? Why is it so easy for the child to identify the lamb's creator, and so easy to invoke God's blessing on the lamb?ħ. Might the line "I stain'd the water clear" be read in two different ways? If so, how?Ħ. What is the child's role in relation to the piper? What does the child want the piper to do?ĥ.
Are adult limitations in understanding different in kind from a child's limitations? What bounds the perceptions of an adult? What bounds the perceptions of a child?Ĥ. How is the title phrase "songs of innocence" capable of more than one interpretation?ģ.
What do you consider to be the task or purpose of Songs of Innocence? In other words, do the songs teach us anything? If so, what?Ģ.
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