Friday, February 4, 2011

Lost to Found

My favorite poem that William Blake wrote and portrayed in his collection of Songs of Innocence would have to be The Little Boy found. It is connected from the poem The Little Boy lost and begins with a lost child wandering through the woods following a bright light, which in reality is a small boy sees the light which leads me to believe that he is dying. In The Little Boy found, an angel comes to him and takes his hand. I see this as God coming to the boy and guiding him to heaven. He is no longer lost between life and death, but now certainly on his way to heaven. God took the boy under his wing. He was following the light in the previous poem, but in this one, the light goes to him and leads the way. Blake illustrated the angel with a halo holding the boy's hand most likely taking him out of the darkness of the woods he was previously in.

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  1. I completely agree with Julia. Little Boy Lost and Little Boy Found are also my favorite pieces. I like the loose intrepertation of the poems. I also enjoy the journey that the boy experiences throughout the poem.

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