Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ties Together
In William Blake's poem The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found, readers see a continuation of the story between two poems. The first poem portrays the child to be lost and the Father to be no where found. It made me feel as though the Father had died or abandoned the child. The picture shows the boy reaching out in attempt to find the father yet no one is there. The poem ends in a sad tone. Instead of leaving readers hanging, the second poem finishes the story on a positive notes. I think the comparison in pictures and text in the two poems ties the story together.
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I agree with Karson, the first story, The Little Boy Lost, left me wondering what was going to happen next. The illustration of the boy reaching out was very sad considering there was no one there. However I was excited to read The Little Boy Found because it answered my questions related to whether or not the boy would be found and resulted in a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteI have the same opinion on those two poems. When I was reading The Little Boy Lost, I feel my reading was fast and worry about the boy. And on the picture, there is a bright light near the boy, I imagine that represent his father. So the boy's body is try to follow the bright lights，and those tree in the back guard are also lean to the bright. Then I read The Little boy Found, my reading speed just slows down, in the suddenly the tone changed sweet and happy.
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