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venerdì 30 settembre 2022 10:38

1. Blake da slide 5
2. Wordsworth
- Reading from songs of experience

READING: The little black boy

- The southern white: otherness, but my soul is
white,the whit ebiy is the opposite
○ They are different
○ Poems on ipocrisy of religion that makes
everybody equal even if they are not
§ Criticque
○ Opoosition: black vs white, body vs souk
§ Darkness, probably african, south vs
north
§ Also light vs darkness
○ Perspective of the child that becomes aware
of differences in balck and whote and he
should be accepted anyway because of
religion
§ Wild may have a racist cinnitation, it is
itherness, b. it is not engkand
○ V 3: english boy is white like an angel, and he
is black (the lack of white)
- Teachings if her mother: we should accept and be
happy of pur role and position in the world
○ Idea that love can transcend race, if we love
each other race doesnt matter
○ Also christianity,,,
- This is. A loem of identity seen through child
pirspective, where black is opposite to white and
the knowledge if god is central
○ We are all together balck and white, criticize
of relig is used to reinforce differnces, seems
sismole but refers to important issues
○ Relationships of children and oarentsm
english child snd south and wiphute
§ Opposition: skin black but souk white
○ constructed dtrhoug opposition
- Black boy can also be related to other figures like
chimney sweepers that are black, images can
overlap and use them to inetroret the text
2. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER: a little back thinh among
the snow
- Contrast black and white
- Against to relgiion, he is alone an dforced to work
○ And his parents are in chirch to pray,
contradiction, not protecting their child
○ Use of weep!: direct descirption of child, and
weepis a word also in London. Also woe
implies pain, smth connected
○ Questions : where are my parents?
- The plight of chikd labourin engkand at that times,
the church as an institution and. Nothing more,
very often currupted, ipocrisy of the adults that are
praying ehile the child works
○ Bc I am happy and dance and sing they
think… , so the whole society is corrupte
○ Reference to ehaven and way religion…
○ Ultimo verso: children abandoned by fsmily
chirch and society, they are just exploited
- Opposition blackness and. Whiteness: snow, winter
snd cold
- Ref to slavery: english child but ref to slavery, we
will see them in other texts
○ Blackness that also implies dirt and death, so
the black is also connected eith death
○ Repetitions and sounds “weep” “woe”…
○ Also figure of parallels: bc oarents are praying
while he is dying and being exploited
3. The sick rose
- Short poem, very rich form with symbols and
imagery
○ The rose is a naturak element, it cannot be
sick like humans
○ R is connected to humanity
- Poem referring ti destruction and detah with
naturak elements, and sexual symbology
○ In a crimson bed
○ The worm is a fallic principle, and teh bed has
a sexual reference to the woman s body
- A wormthat oenetrates this beautuful rose, this
implies that sexual love is in contrast to spiritual
love
○ Worm first invisible, but now enters the bed
and destroys love
- Natural imagery and sexual im: there is a carnal live
opposed to spiritual one
○ Life is destroyed: joy and destroy are
opposites but connected with the rhyme, and
also joy even if it is a noun and ither vermjoy
is good and destroy implies that
○ Opposition: smth good can become smth bad
○ Sick rose: corruption, infection and disease
(the worm inside the rose destroys it, natura,a
nd sexual symbology)
§ See london: reference to prostitution
and illness (bc of poverty had ot become
prostitutes), so linked to sick rose
- Connection between different oevels: religious,
symbolic,a and contmeporary ref to society
4. THE TYGER
- Base don questions with no aswers, the answers
are implied
○ Includes other images of fire and technology
- Contrast: light and drak
- Tyger embodies
- Produce by a balcksmith: product of technology,
and also idea of god who creates
○ God created the lamb
○ Did he who made the lamb make thee?
○ The answer is yes, but it us comolex, bc the
work of creation is also the work of creating
poetry, the poet, and thger is the poetry itself,
si frpearful fascinating and distant in time and
soace
§ So amazing: burning bright, many
images that overlap in the poem, and
violence
- The tyger is a sublime entity: the naturak world it
belings to, but alsi refers to industrialism
(technology) and the process of cretaion (god
creates man) but also the artist who creates poetry
and as rom poets create other worlds trough
imagination
5. LONDON
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