William Blakes Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The Little Black Boy (Part 1

The Little Black Boy is my favorite because racial equality was worded in such endearing terms between a mother and child . The light , gentle but comforting tone of the poem is clear and the mood set by the scenery being described shows the simplicity of God 's love . The mother kissing her son and the child sharing this love unknowingly towards other children from the white race evokes a very comforting emotion . The beams of God 's love are symbols of suffering . However , the poem 's

romanticism was able to mask suffering as holiness when he termed these as the beams of love

Part 2 : A Little Girl Lost and The Sick Rose

Both poems talk about losing virginity as a sinful and dreadful situation for a maiden in Blake 's era . Although the mood of the first starts lightly with a story , it ends drastically with the maiden 's guilt while the latter poem 's tone is rebuking . Blake used the symbol of the rose for a virgin and the color crimson as a sign of something sinful The worm seems to symbolize the sexual desire of a man which can be also held in reference to the serpent in the Garden of Eden

The tone of the first poem is full of self-pity and guilt while the latter 's tone is very judgmental creating a very tense mood . I believe that these poems are too harsh for women because these do not take into consideration that God is forgiving . The loss of physical innocence does not necessarily mean that a woman cannot redeem herself in the eyes of God...