Literature in the 21st Century (Multimedia Lit): The Shepherd

Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Shepherd

My favorite poem in Songs of Innocence would be The Shepherd. The first time I read that poem, I felt like that is a poem about the shepherd which shows the peaceful with the Shepherds. But after I turned over to page five, William Blake's art work gives me more space to think about the image. What is the shepherd's position represent there? Why the shape of tree trends to the shepherd side? Or what is the bright thing comes out from the horizon？I really like how Blake's poems are pretty straight forward and the his art works can stimulate people‘s imagination.

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SheriFebruary 10, 2011 at 8:43 AM
I agree with you. Especially for us international students, poems are a little tough to understand. But reading with Blake's drawings, not only I have better understandings of his poems, but also the drawings let me imagine more than the text.
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