Examine one or two poem

             Examine one or two poems of Blake or Wordsworth from each of the critical perspectives
             And that I was a maiden Queen,
             Witless woe was ne'er beguil'd!
             And I wept both night and day
             And he wip'd my tears away,
             And I wept both day and night
             And hid from him my heart's delight.
             So he took his wings and fled:
             10 Then the morn blush'd rosy red:
             I dried my tears & arm'd my fears
             With ten thousand shields and spears.
             I was arm'd, he came in vain:
             For the time of youth was fled
             And grey hairs were on my head.
             The Angel by William Blake, a poem from his collection Songs of Experience. This essay looks at Blake's poem from several different critical perspectives; through the eyes of the actual reader, a structuralist, and a deconstructionist. The reader gives insight into the poems structure, as well as its meanings. A structuralist on the other hand sees a poem as a product of society and searches for different concepts that seem to underlie the poem. Whereas the deconstructionist reveals most about the actual text of the poem, as he finds it to be a product of language. A deconstructionists view is also that language is the product of experience.
             Blake's The Angel is divided into four stanzas and it is, made up of rhyming couplets. The last three stanzas are all exactly one sentence long, as they all end with a period. However, the first stanza contains a question and exclamations, therefore it falls out of the pattern. Nevertheless, the first stanza sets the stage for the rest of the poem, as it begins by pointing out that it is a dream.
             "I Dreamt a Dream! what can it mean?" (L 1)
             The second stanza sticks out, as every
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