Juxtaposition of Blake and Burns
This is my juxtaposition of Blake and Burns based on the poems that were assigned to the class to read. In Blake's poetry there is an underlining disdain or dislike for the Church. That is the Church system and the Church's teachings as a whole not just one church in particular. I refer to the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" (1789), where Blake seems to poke fun at the fact that these children are taught that if they live in this terrible life of theirs and if they are good that they will be able to go to heaven when they finally leave this world behind. Blake also makes a point in the later, shorter version of "The Chimney Sweeper" (1794) to point out that the child is crying because the parents are at the church praying, and have left the child alone. The poem also states that when the parents saw the child happy they dressed the child in the "clothes of death" and taught the how "to sing the notes of woe." The child also refers to "God & his Priest" as the ones "Who make up a heaven of our misery." Blake's "The Garden of Love" (1794) also deals with the Church and not in a flattering manner. This poem deals with what seems to be and older person returning to a place that he or she had played at an earlier time. This old pla
" dead and in coffins, not exactly a rosy picture. Then there are the growing plants, another part of nature. In the poem "Auld Lang Syne" (1788) is about a man thinking about an old friend. In "Green grow the rashes" (1784) the stanzas are essentially one sentence broken up into four lines, with and indication to repeat the chorus. This poem also opens up with the child's mother dead and the father has sold the child at a very young age. Burns' poems are a little different. Blake's poem "The Garden of Love" did not follow these simple patterns. There is mentions of the "Priests in black gowns" tying up all of the "joys & desires. In "To a Mouse" (1785) the man talks to a mouse, it could be a nice thought that the man took time out of his work to talk to the mouse and to apologize for plowing the mouse's house. Based on the forms of the poems I personally prefer to read the poems by Blake over the poems from Burns. Man's dominion / Has broken Nature's social union". In the poems "To a Mouse" (1785) and "To a Louse" (1785) the stanzas are also in the form of four lines for one sentence, but the end sections of the third and fourth lines are broken off and are indented on the line below the first sections of each line.
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