Intro to innocence - AO5

Cards (5)

  • Some critics have suggested it is an allegory for Blake’s relationship to God and his higher purpose
  • Blake is 'hinting at the contrary qualities of experience with which innocence overlaps.'
    Brendan Cooper (Introduction to Innocence)
  • 'The conversion of artistic feeling into words is itself a loss of innocence'
    Brendan Cooper (Introduction to Innocence)
  • The poem 'allegories key stages in human life' like a child learning to talk and write.

    Kevin Hutchings (Introduction to Innocence)
  • Shows the 'process in which something is lost and something is gained'
    kevin Hutchings (Introduction to Innocence)