ENGLISH 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chimney Sweep, Infant Joy
30 Mar 2016
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Blake: figure of child as teacher and leader. The lamb (evocaion of form of learning, catechism). Child is posiioned as catechizer and child: child associated with the divine, secularizing of chrisian religious faith, blake borrows rhyme from wats and reconigures it. Gave thee such a tender voice, making all the vales rejoice. Vs wats: my heart resolves, my tongue obeys, and angels shall rejoice to hear their mighty maker"s praise sound from a feeble voice. Diferent realm of celebraion. (celesial/ divine in wats, realm of wild nature in blake) Not the child actually criiquing society: vision of the child as in need of nurturing, like nature. Cinderella: diferences amongst versions in terms of. Cut of toes, bind feet etc: cinderella tends to get less dirty as the years/ versions progress. Parallels between values of romanicism and values of the child and the idea of the child is compaible with the idea of protagonist idenity in fairy tales.
